Terry Pratchett: Zitate auf Englisch (seite 13)

“A weapon you held and didn't know how to use belonged to your enemy.”

“Things that try to look like things often do look more like things than things.”

“It was amazing how many friends you could make by being bad at things, provided you were bad enough to be funny.”

“And just when you’d think [humans] were more malignant than ever Hell could be, they occasionally showed more grace than Heaven ever dreamed of.”

“I’m not superstitious. I’m a witch. Witches aren’t superstitious. We are what people are superstitious of.”

“William: "I'm sure we can all pull together, sir."
Vetinari: "Oh, I do hope not. Pulling together is the aim of despotism and tyranny. Free men pull in all kinds of directions.”

“The trouble was that he was talking in philosophy but they were listening in gibberish.”

“The worst thing you can do is nothing.”

“Rincewind tried to force the memory out of his mind, but it was rather enjoying itself there, terrorizing the other occupants and kicking over the furniture.”

“Despite rumor, Death isn't cruel--merely terribly, terribly good at his job.”

“A witch ought never to be frightened in the darkest forest, Granny Weatherwax had once told her, because she should be sure in her soul that the most terrifying thing in the forest was her.”

“Aziraphale. The Enemy, of course. But an enemy for six thousand years now, which made him a sort of friend.”

“Commander, I always used to consider that you had a definite anti-authoritarian streak in you.”
“Sir?”
“It seems that you have managed to retain this even though you are authority.”
“Sir?”
“That’s practically zen.”

“Oh yes? Can you identify yourself?
-Certainly. I'd know me anywhere.”

“Just because it's not nice doesn't mean it's not miraculous.”

“People aren't just people, they are people surrounded by circumstances.”

“Oh, Ivery angry a lot of the time," said Tiffany, "but I just put it away somewhere until I can do something useful with it.”

“They think written words are even more powerful,’ whispered the toad. ‘They think all writing is magic. Words worry them. See their swords? They glow blue in the presence of lawyers.”

“I should have learned this, she thought. I wanted to learn fire, and pain, but I should have learned people.”