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Maskerade (Discworld, #18; Witches #5) QUOTES

Maskerade (Discworld, #18; Witches #5) QUOTES

1 " People who didn't need people needed people around to know that they were the kind of people who didn't need people. "

― Terry Pratchett , Maskerade (Discworld, #18; Witches #5)

2 " You know, you're rather amusingly wrong. "

― Terry Pratchett , Maskerade (Discworld, #18; Witches #5)

3 " Just to keep the bad dreams at bay, she took a swig out of a bottle that smelled of apples and happy brain-death. "

― Terry Pratchett , Maskerade (Discworld, #18; Witches #5)

4 " (About sweeping)....
What he was in FACT doing was moving the dirt around with a broom, to give it a change of scenery and a chance to make new friends. "

― Terry Pratchett , Maskerade (Discworld, #18; Witches #5)

5 " -Oh yes? Can you identify yourself?
-Certainly. I'd know me anywhere. "

― Terry Pratchett , Maskerade (Discworld, #18; Witches #5)

6 " (About a cookbook...)
- What about this one? Maids of Honor?
- Weeelll, they starts OUT as Maids of Honor...but they ends up Tarts. "

― Terry Pratchett , Maskerade (Discworld, #18; Witches #5)

7 " But that was just it - hate was exactly the right word. Hate is a force of attraction. Hate is just love with its back turned. "

― Terry Pratchett , Maskerade (Discworld, #18; Witches #5)

8 " His progress through life was hampered by his tremendous sense of his own ignorance, a disability which affects all too few. "

― Terry Pratchett , Maskerade (Discworld, #18; Witches #5)

9 " Nanny's philosophy of life was to do what seemed like a good idea at the time, and do it as hard as possible. It had never let her down. "

― Terry Pratchett , Maskerade (Discworld, #18; Witches #5)

10 " Gytha Ogg, you wouldn’t be a witch if you couldn’t jump to conclusions, right?” Nanny nodded. “Oh, yes.” There was no shame in it. Sometimes there wasn’t time to do anything else but take a flying leap. Sometimes you had to trust to experience and intuition and general awareness and take a running jump. Nanny herself could clear quite a tall conclusion from a standing start. "

― Terry Pratchett , Maskerade (Discworld, #18; Witches #5)

11 " Well, basically there are two sorts of opera," said Nanny, who also had the true witch's ability to be confidently expert on the basis of no experience whatsoever. "There's your heavy opera, where basically people sing foreign and it goes like "Oh oh oh, I am dyin', oh I am dyin', oh oh oh, that's what I'm doin'", and there's your light opera, where they sing in foreign and it basically goes "Beer! Beer! Beer! Beer! I like to drink lots of beer!", although sometimes they drink champagne instead. That's basically all of opera, reely. "

― Terry Pratchett , Maskerade (Discworld, #18; Witches #5)

12 " the IQ of a mob is the IQ of its most stupid member divided by the number of mobsters, "

― Terry Pratchett , Maskerade (Discworld, #18; Witches #5)

13 " Dedication: My thanks to the people who showed me that opera was stranger than I could imagine. I can best repay their kindness by not mentioning their names here. "

― Terry Pratchett , Maskerade (Discworld, #18; Witches #5)

14 " But you ain't part of it, are you?" said Granny conversationally. "You try, but you always find yourself watchin' yourself watchin' people, eh? Never quite believin' anything? Thinkin' the wrong thoughts? "

― Terry Pratchett , Maskerade (Discworld, #18; Witches #5)

15 " What sort of person," said Salzella patiently, "sits down and writes a maniacal laugh? And all those exclamation marks, you notice? Five? A sure sign of someone who wears his underpants on his head. Opera can do that to a man. "

― Terry Pratchett , Maskerade (Discworld, #18; Witches #5)

16 " You needed at least three witches for a coven. Two witches was just an argument. "

― Terry Pratchett , Maskerade (Discworld, #18; Witches #5)

17 " Nanny Ogg could see the future in the froth on a beer mug. It invariably showed that she was going to enjoy a refreshing drink which she almost certainly was not going to pay for. "

― Terry Pratchett , Maskerade (Discworld, #18; Witches #5)

18 " Other people salted away money for their old age, but Nanny preferred to accumulate memories. "

― Terry Pratchett , Maskerade (Discworld, #18; Witches #5)

19 " There's a kind of magic in masks. Masks conceal one face, but they reveal another. The one that only comes out in darkness. I bet you could do just what you liked, behind a mask ... ? "

― Terry Pratchett , Maskerade (Discworld, #18; Witches #5)

20 " You can either be on the stage, just a performer, just going through the lines... or you can be outside it, and know how the script works, where the scenery hangs, and where the trapdoors are. "

― Terry Pratchett , Maskerade (Discworld, #18; Witches #5)