Terry Pratchett: Zitate auf Englisch (seite 29)

“One of the things forgotten about the human spirit is that while it is, in the right conditions, noble and brave and wonderful, it is also, when you get right down to it, only human.”

“Her singing always cheered him up. Life seemed so much brighter when she stopped.”

“Vimes's lack of interest in other people's children was limitless.”

“How do you get all those coins?" asked Mort.
IN PAIRS.”

“I don't want to hurt you, Mistress Weatherwax," said Mrs Gogol.
"That's good," said Granny. "I don't want you to hurt me either.”

“When people say "clearly" something that means there's a huge crack in their argument and they know things aren't clear at all.”

“Belief, he says. Belief shifts. People start out believing in the god and end up believing in the structure.”

“Esme Weatherwax hadn't done nice. She'd done what was.”

“But I don'tin reincarnation!" he protested.
SQUEAK.
And this, Mr Pounder understood with absolute rodent clarity, meant: reincarnation believes in.”

“Racism was not a problem on the Discworld, because—what with trolls and dwarfs and so on—speciesism was more interesting. Black and white lived in perfect harmony and ganged up on green.”

“If there were such a thing as an inter-city thieving contest, Ankh-Morpork would bring home the trophy and probably everyone’s wallets.”

“This is a lovely party," said the Bursar to a chair, "I wish I was here.”

“It's like chess, you know. The Queen saves the King.”

“Everyone knew there were wolves in the mountains, but they seldom came near the village - the modern wolves were the offspring of ancestors that had survived because they had learned that human meat had sharp edges.”

“These weren't encouraged in the city, since the heft and throw of a longbow's arrow could send it through an innocent bystander a hundred yards away instead of the innocent bystander at whom it was aimed.”

“He sighed. It had come to this. He was a responsible authority, and people could use terms like "core values" at him with impunity.”

“There is a curse.
They say:
May you live in interesting times.”

“Genius is always allowed some leeway, once the hammer has been pried from its hands and the blood has been cleaned up.”

“But there was more to it than that. As the Amazing Maurice said, it was just a story about people and rats. And the difficult part of it was deciding who the people were, and who were the rats.”