Terry Pratchett: Zitate auf Englisch (seite 25)

“Inside every lump of coal there's a diamond waiting to get out.”

“… All the shops have been smashed open. There was a whole bunch of people across the street helping themselves to musical instruments, can you believe that?"

"Yeah," said Rincewind. "… Luters, I expect.”

“I'm trying to have a moment o' existential dreed here, right? Crivens, it's a puir lookout if a man canna feel the chilly winds o' fate lashing aroound his netheres wi'out folks telling him he's deid, eh?”

“Thunder rolled.. It rolled a six.”

“It is well known that a vital ingredient of success is not knowing that what you're attempting can't be done. A person ignorant of the possibility of failure can be a half-brick in the path of the bicycle of history.”

“They can tak' oour lives but they canna tak' oour troousers!”

“Vimes had got around to a Clean Desk policy. It was a Clean Floor strategy
that eluded him at the moment.”

“Raising the flag and singing the anthem are, while somewhat suspicious, not in themselves acts of treason.”

“Ninety percent of true love is acute, ear-burning embarrassment.”

“They say that the prospect of being hanged in the morning concentrates a man's mind wonderfully; unfortunately, what the mind inevitably concentrates on is that, in the morning, it will be in a body that is going to be hanged.”

“Things are not as they seem. They are what they are.”

“Personal isn't the same as important.”

“The only really sane person in there is Igor, and possibly the turnip. And I'm not sure about the turnip.”

“There’s lots of people will help you with alcohol business, but there’s no one out there arranging little meetings where you can stand up and say, ‘My name is Sam Vimes and I’m a really suspicious bastard.”

“I see evil when I look in my shaving mirror. It is, philosophically, present everywhere in the universe in order, apparently, to highlight the existence of good. I think there is more to this theory, but I tend to burst out laughing at this point.”

“Money doesn't buy happiness, Gytha."
"I only wanted to rent it for a few weeks!”

“YOU HAVE TO START OUT LEARNING TO BELIEVE THE LITTLE LIES.

"So we can believe the big ones?"

YES. JUSTICE. MERCY. DUTY. THAT SORT OF THING.”

“Hat = wizard, wizard = hat. Everything else is frippery.”

“Trouble is, just because things are obvious doesn't mean they're true.”