Terry Pratchett: Trending quotes (page 9)

“NAUGHTY AND NICE? said Death. BUT IT'S EASY TO BE NICE IF YOU'RE RICH. IS THIS FAIR?
Albert wanted to argue. He wanted to say, Really? In that case, how come so many of the rich buggers is bastards? And being poor don't mean being naughty, neither.”

“This is Morbidia," said Vlad. "Although she's been calling herself Tracy lately, to be cool.”

“Don't try the paranormal until you know what's normal.”

“I think it's IMPOSSIBLE for anyone famous to come from here, because everyone around here is insane.”

“Dedication: My thanks to the people who showed me that opera was stranger than I could imagine. I can best repay their kindness by not mentioning their names here.”

“That's what I don't like about magic. It does everything by magic.”

“Taxation is just a sophisticated way of demanding money with menaces.”

“They suffered from the terrible delusion that something could be done. They seemed prepared to make the world the way they wanted it or die in the attempt, and the trouble with dying in the attempt was that you died in the attempt.”

“People whose wishes get granted often don't turn out to be very nice people.”

“They shed a rather unpleasant glow that didn't so much illuminate, asthe darkness.”

“Pollution removed his helmet and shook out his long white hair. He had taken over when Pestilence, muttering about penicillin, had retired in 1936.”

“The trouble with witches is that they’ll never run away from things they really hate.

And the trouble with small furry animals in a corner is that, just occasionally, one of them’s a mongoose.”

“Light died in the west. Night and tears took the Nation. The star of Water drifted among the clouds like a murderer softly leaving the scene of the crime.”

“Cake is not the issue here.”

“The Auditors fluttered anxiously. And, as always happens in their species when something goes radically wrong and needs fixing instantly, they settled down to try to work how who was to blame.”

“It struck Mort with sudden, terrible poignancy that Death must be the loneliest creature in the universe. In the great party of Creation, he was always in the kitchen.”

“If you were going to be successful in the world of crime, you needed a reputation for honesty.”

“… a metaphor… is like lying but more decorative.”

“Nothing has to be true forever. Just for long enough.”