Terry Pratchett: Citations en anglais

Terry Pratchett était écrivain britannique. Citations en anglais.
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“Nanny Ogg looked under her bed in case there was a man there. Well, you never knew your luck.”

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Terry Pratchett livre Lords and Ladies

Source: Lords and Ladies

“Studies have shown that an ant can carry one hundred times its own weight, but there is no known limit to the lifting power of the average tiny eighty-year-old Spanish peasant grandmother.”

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Terry Pratchett livre Reaper Man

Source: Reaper Man

“Only in our dreams are we free. The rest of the time we need wages.”

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Terry Pratchett livre Wyrd Sisters

Cited in Power Quotes: For Life, Business, and Leadership (2018) by Danai Krokou, ISBN 1-63157-750-6
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Source: Wyrd Sisters

“Zoology, eh? That's a big word, isn't it."

"No, actually it isn't," said Tiffany. "Patronizing is a big word. Zoology is really quite short.”

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Terry Pratchett livre Les Ch'tits Hommes libres

Source: The Wee Free Men

“He says gods like to see an atheist around. Gives them something to aim at.”

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Terry Pratchett livre Small Gods

Source: Small Gods

“When in doubt, choose to live.”

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Terry Pratchett livre Thief of Time

Source: Thief of Time

“The trouble is you can shut your eyes but you can’t shut your mind.”

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Terry Pratchett livre Wintersmith

Source: Wintersmith

“Of course I'm sane, when trees start talking to me, I don't talk back.”

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Terry Pratchett livre The Light Fantastic

Source: The Light Fantastic

“This I choose to do. If there is a price, this I choose to pay. If it is my death, then I choose to die. Where this takes me, there I choose to go. I choose. This I choose to do.”

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Terry Pratchett livre Wintersmith

Source: Wintersmith

“People couldn't become truly holy, he said, unless they also had the opportunity to be definitively wicked.”

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Source: Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch

“A good plan isn't one where someone wins, it's where nobody thinks they've lost.”

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Source: The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents

“No, what he didn't like about heroes was that they were usually suicidally gloomy when sober and homicidally insane when drunk.”

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Source: The Color of Magic

“Steal five dollars and you're a common thief. Steal thousands and you're either the government or a hero.”

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Terry Pratchett livre Going Postal

Source: Going Postal

“Joy is to fun what the deep sea is to a puddle. It’s a feeling inside that can hardly be contained.”

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Terry Pratchett livre A Hat Full of Sky

Source: A Hat Full of Sky

“There was this about vampires : they could never look scruffy. Instead, they were… what was the word… deshabille. It meant untidy, but with bags and bags of style.”

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Terry Pratchett livre Monstrous Regiment

Source: Monstrous Regiment

“She was also, by the standards of other people, lost. She would not see it like that. She knew where she was, it was just that everywhere else didn't.”

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Terry Pratchett livre Equal Rites

Source: Equal Rites

“Just because someone's a member of an ethnic minority doesn't mean they're not a nasty small-minded little jerk.”

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Terry Pratchett livre Feet of Clay

Source: Feet of Clay

“I get it,' said the prisoner. 'Good Cop, Bad Cop, eh?'
If you like.' said Vimes. 'But we're a bit short staffed here, so if I give you a cigarette would you mind kicking yourself in the teeth?”

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Terry Pratchett livre Night Watch

Source: Night Watch

“Blessings be on this house," Granny said, perfunctorily. It was always a good opening remark for a witch. It concentrated people's minds on what other things might be on this house.”

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Terry Pratchett livre Witches Abroad

Source: Witches Abroad