Terry Pratchett: Cytaty po angielsku (strona 26)

“It wasn't that Nanny Ogg sang badly. It was just that she could hit notes which, when amplified by a tin bath half full of water, ceased to be sound and became some sort of invasive presence.”

“Witches aren’t like that. We live in harmony with the great cycles of Nature, and do no harm to anyone, and it’s wicked of them to say we don’t. We ought to fill their bones with hot lead.”

“Questions don't have to make sense, Vincent," said Miss Susan. "But answers do.”

“What is magic?
There is the wizard's explanation… wizards talk about candles, circles, planets, stars, bananas, chants, runes and the importance of having at least four good meals every day.”

“If you kept changing the way people saw the world, you ended up changing the way you saw yourself.”

“Credulous: having views about the world, the universe and humanity's place in it that are shared only by very unsophisticated people and the most intelligent and advanced mathematicians and physicists.”

“This is space. It's sometimes called the final frontier.

(Except that of course you can't have afrontier, because there'd be nothing for it to be a frontier, but as frontiers go, it's pretty penultimate…)”

“Building a temple didn't mean you believed in gods, it just meant you believed in architecture.”

“This is Art holding a Mirror up to Life. That’s why everything is exactly the wrong way around.”

“Some people believe that when you die, you cross the River of Death and have to pay the ferryman. People don’t seem to worry about that these days. Perhaps there’s a bridge now.”

“People needed to believe in gods, if only because it was so hard to believe in people.”

“Granny Weatherwax was not a good loser. From her point of view, losing was something that happened to other people.”

“Any fool could be a witch with a runic knife, but it took skill to be one with an apple corer.”

“Either dragons should exist completely or fail to exist at all, he felt. A dragon only half-existing was worse than the extremes.”

“… the little man's total obliviousness to all forms of danger somehow made danger so discouraged that it gave up and went away.”

“YOU MUST LEARN THE COMPASSION PROPER TO YOUR TRADE"
"And what's that?"
"A SHARP EDGE.”

“If failure had no penalty success would not be a prize.”

“He'd been an angel once. He hadn't meant to Fall. He'd just hung around with the wrong people.”

“But this didn'tlike magic. It felt a lot older than that. It felt like music.”