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Carpe Jugulum (Discworld #23; Witches #6) QUOTES

Carpe Jugulum (Discworld #23; Witches #6) QUOTES

1 " Granny was an old-fashioned witch. She didn’t do good for people, she did right by them. "

― Terry Pratchett , Carpe Jugulum (Discworld #23; Witches #6)

2 " When people say things are a lot more complicated than that, they means they're getting worried that they won't like the truth. "

― Terry Pratchett , Carpe Jugulum (Discworld #23; Witches #6)

3 " You say that you people don’t burn folk and sacrifice people anymore, but that’s what true faith would mean, y’see? Sacrificin’ your own life, one day at a time, to the flame, declarin’ the truth of it, workin’ for it, breathin’ the soul of it. That’s religion. Anything else is just . . . is just bein’ nice. And a way of keepin’ in touch with the neighbors. "

― Terry Pratchett , Carpe Jugulum (Discworld #23; Witches #6)

4 " And sin, young man, is when you treat people like things. "

― Terry Pratchett , Carpe Jugulum (Discworld #23; Witches #6)

5 " He grinned. It was the sort of grin that Agnes supposed was called infectious but, then, so was measles. "

― Terry Pratchett , Carpe Jugulum (Discworld #23; Witches #6)

6 " The smug mask of virtue triumphant could be almost as horrible as the face of wickedness revealed. "

― Terry Pratchett , Carpe Jugulum (Discworld #23; Witches #6)

7 " I mean, it's one thing saying you've got the best god, but sayin' it's the only real one is a bit of a cheek, in my opinion. I know where I can find at least two any day of the week. And they say everyone starts out bad and only gets good by believin' in Om, which is frankly damn nonsense. "

― Terry Pratchett , Carpe Jugulum (Discworld #23; Witches #6)

8 " Everywhere I look, I see something holy. "

― Terry Pratchett , Carpe Jugulum (Discworld #23; Witches #6)

9 " Don't do anything I wouldn't do, if you ever find anything I wouldn't do. "

― Terry Pratchett , Carpe Jugulum (Discworld #23; Witches #6)

10 " Supposing there was justice for all, after all? For every unheeded beggar, every harsh word, every neglected duty, every slight... every choice... Because that was the point, wasn't it? You had to choose. You might be right, you might be wrong, but you had to choose, knowing that the rightness or wrongness might never be clear or even that you were deciding between two sorts of wrong, that there was no right anywhere. And always, always, you did it by yourself. You were the one there, on the edge, watching and listening. Never any tears, never any apology, never any regrets... You saved all that up in a way that could be used when needed. "

― Terry Pratchett , Carpe Jugulum (Discworld #23; Witches #6)

11 " Any fool could be a witch with a runic knife, but it took skill to be one with an apple corer. "

― Terry Pratchett , Carpe Jugulum (Discworld #23; Witches #6)

12 " This is Morbidia," said Vlad. "Although she's been calling herself Tracy lately, to be cool. "

― Terry Pratchett , Carpe Jugulum (Discworld #23; Witches #6)

13 " My granny used to say if you’re too sharp you’ll cut yourself, "

― Terry Pratchett , Carpe Jugulum (Discworld #23; Witches #6)

14 " All witches who'd lived in her cottage were bookish types. They thought you could see life through books but you couldn't, the reason being that the words got in the way. "

― Terry Pratchett , Carpe Jugulum (Discworld #23; Witches #6)

15 " Mistress Weatherwax, you are a natural disputant.” “No I ain’t! "

― Terry Pratchett , Carpe Jugulum (Discworld #23; Witches #6)

16 " Don’t trust the cannibal just ’cos he’s usin’ a knife and fork! "

― Terry Pratchett , Carpe Jugulum (Discworld #23; Witches #6)

17 " I never understood that story, anyway,” said Nanny. “I mean, if I knew I’d got a heel that would kill me if someone stuck a spear in it, I’d go into battle wearing very heavy boots— "

― Terry Pratchett , Carpe Jugulum (Discworld #23; Witches #6)

18 " ... all reputable falconers agreed that for hunting purposes the only way you could reliably bring down prey with a wowhawk was by using it in a slingshot. "

― Terry Pratchett , Carpe Jugulum (Discworld #23; Witches #6)

19 " The reward for toil had been more toil. If you dug the best ditches, they gave you a bigger shovel. "

― Terry Pratchett , Carpe Jugulum (Discworld #23; Witches #6)

20 " Once you gave a thing a name you gave it a life. "

― Terry Pratchett , Carpe Jugulum (Discworld #23; Witches #6)