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Dodger QUOTES

Dodger QUOTES

1 " ... it is to your credit that you recognize that if he was a monster then it was other monstrous things which made him so. The iron forged on the anvil cannot be blamed for the hammer... "

― Terry Pratchett , Dodger

2 " ... responsibilities are the anvil on which a man is forged. "

― Terry Pratchett , Dodger

3 " The games we play are lessons we learn. The assumptions we make, things we ignore, and things we change make us what we become. "

― Terry Pratchett , Dodger

4 " Young man, the games we play are lessons we learn. The assumptions we make, things we ignore, and things we change make us what we become. "

― Terry Pratchett , Dodger

5 " Money makes people rich; it is a fallacy to think it makes them better, or even that it makes them worse. People are what they do, and what they leave behind. "

― Terry Pratchett , Dodger

6 " There were two ways of looking at the world, but only one when you are starving. "

― Terry Pratchett , Dodger

7 " . . . had decided what to do, which was to smile like the morning sun with a knife in its teeth. "

― Terry Pratchett , Dodger

8 " The man gave Dodger a cursory glance that had quite a lot of curse in it. "

― Terry Pratchett , Dodger

9 " Interest? What's money interested in?' 'More money "

― Terry Pratchett , Dodger

10 " . . . and what are you exactly, my friend? Their subordinate? Their employee? Or, I would suggest, their equal? That's what young Karl would certainly have said, and probably still does. Unless he's no longer alive.' Dodger gave Solomon and strange look and Solomon hastened to clarify. "'Mmmm, as I recall, if you go around telling people that they are downtrodden, you tend to make two separate enemies: the people who are doing the downtreading and have no intention of stopping, and the people who are downtrodden, but nevertheless -- people being who they are -- don't want to know. They can get quite nasty about it.' (205) "

― Terry Pratchett , Dodger

11 " Dodger, still trusting his luck, in his most ingratiating voice, said: "Well, dear Mrs Mayhew, I can promise you that there will not be any hanky-panky, because I do not know what panky is and I've never had a hanky. Only a wipe."
For a moment her steely glare melted again and Mrs Mayhew said, "You are a very forward young man, Mister Dodger."
"I certainly hope so, Mrs Mayhew; indeed sometimes I think I am being pulled forward through no fault of my own. However, Mrs Mayhew, I am sure you will agree with me that being forward is better by far than being backward. "

― Terry Pratchett , Dodger

12 " As for me, some days I believe in God, and some days I do not."
Then Dodger said, “Is that allowed?”
Solomon pushed the door open and then fussily began locking it up again behind him. "Dodger, you fail to understand the unique arrangements between Jewish people and God. "

― Terry Pratchett , Dodger

13 " After my wife was killed in that pogrom in Russia, I came to England with only my tools, and when I saw the white cliffs of Dover, alone without my wife, I said, "God, today I don’t believe in you anymore."

"What did God say?" Dodger had asked.

Solomon had sighed theatrically, as if he had been put upon by the question, and then smiled and said, “Mmm, God said to me, ‘I understand, Solomon; let me know when you change your mind. "

― Terry Pratchett , Dodger

14 " Anyone can rise if they have enough yeast. "

― Terry Pratchett , Dodger

15 " Mmmm, as I recall, if you go around telling people that they are downtrodden, you tend to make two separate enemies: the people who are doing the downtreading and have no intention of stopping, and the people who are downtrodden, but nevertheless -- people being who they are -- don't want to know. They can get quite nasty about it. "

― Terry Pratchett , Dodger

16 " [...]all men are writers, journalists scribbling within their skulls the narrative of what they see and hear[...] "

― Terry Pratchett , Dodger

17 " the truth is a fog, in which one man sees the heavenly host and the other one sees a flying elephant. "

― Terry Pratchett , Dodger

18 " People are what they do, and what they leave behind "

― Terry Pratchett , Dodger

19 " The thing about secrets is that they are usually best kept by just one person. That was the special thing about secrets. Some people seemed to think that the best way to keep a secret was to tell as many people as possible; what could possibly go wrong for a secret when there were so many people defending it? "

― Terry Pratchett , Dodger

20 " And on this dirty night there were appropriately dirty deeds that not even the rain could wash away. "

― Terry Pratchett , Dodger