Terry Pratchett: Zitate auf Englisch (seite 36)

“There were no public health laws in Ankh-Morpork. It would be like installing smoke detectors in Hell.”

“If you had enough money, you could hardly commit crimes at all. You just perpetrated amusing little peccadilloes.”

“Vimes stalked gloomily through the crowded streets, feeling like the only pickled onion in a fruit salad.”

“Neither claimed any responsibility for Milton Keynes, but both reported it as a success.”

“Mr Lipwig, there's a lady in the hall to see you and we've thanked her for not smoking three times and she's still doing it!”

“The thing about stories is you have to pick the ones that last.”

“Them as can do, has to do for them as can't. And someone has to speak up for them as has no voices.”

“Well done,' said a voice somewhere behind him. 'Consciousness to sarcasm in five seconds!”

“That's the way it was. Privilege, which just means 'private law.' Two types of people laugh at the law; those that break it and those that make it.”

“One of the highlights of the first Good Omens tour was Neil and I walking through New York singing Shoehorn with Teeth. Well, we'd had a good breakfast. And you don't get mugged, either.”

“Apes had it worked out. No ape would philosophize, "The mountain is, and is not." They would think, "The banana is. I will eat the banana. There is no banana. I want another banana.”

“And then there was the headless horseman!" said Tiffany. "He had no head!"
"Well, that is the major job qualification," said the toad.”

“You're not going to die, are you sir?' he said.
'Of course I am. Everyone is. That's what being alive is all about.”

“And it came to pass that in time the Great God Om spake unto Brutha, the Chosen One: "Psst!”

“Religion is not an exact science. Sometimes, of course, neither is science.”

“Rincewind had always been happy to think of himself as a racist. The One Hundred Meters, the Mile, the Marathon -- he'd run them all.”

“No matter how fast light travels it finds the darkness has always got there first, and is waiting for it.”

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“Just because you’re a zombie doesn’t mean you’re a bad person.”