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Guards! Guards! quotes

Terry Pratchett

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“People were stupid, sometimes. They thought the Library was a dangerous place because of all the magical books, which was true enough, but what made it really one of the most dangerous places there could ever be was the simple fact that it was a...” Terry Pratchett, Guards! Guards!
“They accept evil not because they say yes, but because they don’t say no.” Terry Pratchett, Guards! Guards!
“Never trust any ruler who puts his faith in tunnels and bunkers and escape routes. The chances are that his heart isn’t in the job.” Terry Pratchett, Guards! Guards!
“His age was indeterminate. But in cynicism and general world weariness, which is a sort of carbon dating of the personality, he was about seven thousand years old.” Terry Pratchett, Guards! Guards!
“The reason that cliches become cliches is that they are the hammers and screwdrivers in the toolbox of communication.” Terry Pratchett, Guards! Guards!
“If there was anything that depressed him more than his own cynicism, it was that quite often it still wasn’t as cynical as real life.” Terry Pratchett, Guards! Guards!
“to a soul attuned to the subtle rhythms of a library, there are few worse sights than a hole where a book ought to be.” Terry Pratchett, Guards! Guards!
“The relevant equation is: Knowledge = power = energy = matter = mass; a good bookshop is just a genteel Black Hole that knows how to read.” Terry Pratchett, Guards! Guards!
“The three rules of the Librarians of Time and Space are: 1) Silence; 2) Books must be returned no later than the last date shown; and 3) Do not interfere with the nature of causality.” Terry Pratchett, Guards! Guards!
“Once you’ve ruled out the impossible then whatever is left, however improbable, must be the truth. The problem lay in working out what was impossible, of course.” Terry Pratchett, Guards! Guards!
“All dwarfs have beards and wear up to twelve layers of clothing. Gender is more or less optional.” Terry Pratchett, Guards! Guards!
“Some people are born to command. Some people achieve command. And others have command thrust upon them, and the sergeant was now included in this category and wasn’t very happy about it.” Terry Pratchett, Guards! Guards!
“I mean, it’s a good job we’ve got a last desperate million-to-one chance to rely on, or we’d really be in trouble!” Terry Pratchett, Guards! Guards!
“Someone out there was about to find that their worst nightmare was a maddened Librarian. With a badge.” Terry Pratchett, Guards! Guards!
“Life could be horrible in the wrong trouser of Time.” Terry Pratchett, Guards! Guards!
“Vimes had never mastered ambition. It was something that happened to other people.” Terry Pratchett, Guards! Guards!
“Perhaps the magic would last. Perhaps it wouldn’t. But then, what does?” Terry Pratchett, Guards! Guards!
“Noble dragons don’t have friends. The nearest they can get to the idea is an enemy who is still alive.” Terry Pratchett, Guards! Guards!
“But all this business about kings and lords, it’s against basic human dignity. We’re all born equal. It makes me sick.” Terry Pratchett, Guards! Guards!
“Never build a dungeon you wouldn’t be happy to spend the night in yourself” Terry Pratchett, Guards! Guards!
“Life is just chemicals. A drop here, a drip there, everything’s changed. A mere dribble of fermented juices and suddenly you’re going to live another few hours.” Terry Pratchett, Guards! Guards!
“If you can't beat it or corrupt it, you pretend it was your idea in the first place.” Terry Pratchett, Guards! Guards!
“Because world all twisted up and wrong, like distorted glass, only came back into focus if you looked at it through bottom of bottle.” Terry Pratchett, Guards! Guards!
“the man was clearly guilty. You could tell just by looking at him. Not, perhaps, guilty of anything specific. Just guilty in general terms.” Terry Pratchett, Guards! Guards!
“She couldn’t do worse, but then, he couldn’t do better. So maybe it balanced out.” Terry Pratchett, Guards! Guards!
“There had to be something right about a citizenry which, when faced with catastrophe, thought about selling sausages to the participants.” Terry Pratchett, Guards! Guards!
“you find life such a problem because you think there are the good people and the bad people . . . You're wrong, of course. There are, always and only, the bad people, but some of them are on opposite sides.” Terry Pratchett, Guards! Guards!
“Nobby had survived any number of famous massacres by not being there.” Terry Pratchett, Guards! Guards!
“Heroes get kingdoms and princesses, and they take regular exercise, and when they smile the light glints off their teeth, ting.” Terry Pratchett, Guards! Guards!

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