Fave Quotes (Terry Pratchett)

[Pyan]

A young man of godlike proportions was standing in the doorway. *



* The better class of gods, anyway. Not the ones with the tentacles, obviously.

Thud

 

[HoopyFrood]

Hehe, how apt

 

[Joel007]

I like the way Mister Vimes upsets everyone

In all, I've had seventeen demands for your badge. Some want parts of your body attached. Why did you have to upset everybody?
-- Lord Vetinari reproves Vimes. (Terry Pratchett, Feet of Clay)

 

[flynx]

My favourite quote ever (from Hatfull of sky) is in my sig on another board.

"I've been given something for a little while, and the price of it is that I have to give it back." Tiffan - Kelder of the pictsies.

My other favourite (which shows just how soft I am) is from one of the guards books (where Carrot meets Angua's family) Vimes has just thrown an exploding rocket for Angua's brother to catch and she turns to Carrot and says something like:

"You have to promise me that if I turn like that, you'll do the same for me."

 

[Allegra]

'Shoot the dictator and prevent the war? But the dictator is merely the tip of the whole festering boil of social pus from which dictators emerge; shoot one, and there'll be another one along in a minute. Shoot him too? Why not shoot everyone and invade Poland? In fifty years', thirty years', ten years' time, the world will be very nearly back on it's old course. History always has a great weight of inertia.'

- Lords and Ladies

 

[Joel007]

The river Ankh is probably the only river in the universe on which the investigators can chalk the outline of the corpse.
-- (Terry Pratchett, Men at Arms)

reminds me of "the naked gun" when they do just that

 

[HoopyFrood]

Hehe, I love the descriptions of the river Ankh.
Hell, I love all descriptions in TP books...the man just has a way with words!

Anyhoos, I rather like this quote...and not just because it has a certain word in it

"The sergeant put on the poker face which has been handed down from NCO to NCO ever since one protoamphibian told another, lower-ranking protoamphibian to muster a squad of newts and Take That Beach."
-- Eric

 

[The Ace]

From Mort;
"He had seen the light at the end of the tunnel, and it was a flamethrower."

 

[Who's Wee Dug]

Well I will look out for you folks at the next Discworld Convention

 

[HoopyFrood]

There's a Discworld Convention?! When, where, why, how and what! (ok, you don't need to answer all of them...the first two will do! )

 

[Alurny]

Wizards felt able to let their hair down without fear of being strangled with it
-- Sourcery

Good post. That was my favourite quote from that book.

 

[Faceless Woman]

Bjorn Ironfounderson knew the meaning of irony. It meant sort of like iron.

 

[Joel007]

In the second scroll of Wen the Eternally Surprised a story is written concerning one day when the apprentice Clodpool, in a rebellious mood, approached Wen and spake thusly: "Master, what is the difference between a humanistic, monastic system of belief in which wisdom is sought by means of an apparently nonsensical system of questions and answers, and a lot of mystic gibberish made up on the spur of the moment?" Wen considered this for some time, and at last said: "A fish!" And Clodpool went away, satisfied.
-- (Terry Pratchett, Thief of Time)

 

[Patrick Mahon]

There's a Discworld Convention?! When, where, why, how and what! (ok, you don't need to answer all of them...the first two will do! )

Hoopy,

If you have a look at the Conventions thread elsewhere on Chronicles Network (see http://www.chronicles-network.com/forum/conventions-and-events/), you should be able to find the details there.

Patrick.

 

[HoopyFrood]

Ah, damn me and my laziness...I should've looked for it myself...

Thank you very much Patrick

 

[Joel007]

'They never give him any of the things a sensitive growing wossname really needs, if you was to ask me.'
'What, you mean love and guidance?' said Rincewind.
'I was thinking of a bloody good wossname, thrashing.' said the parrot.
- Eric

 

[Allegra]

"Why do you keep saying wossname?" said Rincewind.
"Limited wossname. Doodah. Thingy. You know, it's got words in it," said the parrot.
"Dictionary?" said Rincewind.

- Eric

 

[Sibeling]

Thanks for the parrot quotes, he was my favourite character in Eric!

 

[Joel007]

It's a sad and terrible thing that high-born folk really have thought that the servants would be totally fooled if spirits were put into decanters that were cunningly labelled backwards. And also throughout history the more politically conscious butler has taken it on trust, and with rather more justification, that his employers will not notice if the whisky is topped up with eniru.
-- (Terry Pratchett, Hogfather)

 

[Allegra]

'Ah. In the theatre, I've noticed, if you watch dead bodies long enough you can see them move.' - Granny Weatherwax (Maskerade)