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Making Money (Discworld, #36; Moist Von Lipwig, #2) QUOTES

Making Money (Discworld, #36; Moist Von Lipwig, #2) QUOTES

1 " Whole new theories of money were growing here like mushrooms: in the dark and based on bullshit. "

― Terry Pratchett , Making Money (Discworld, #36; Moist Von Lipwig, #2)

2 " . . . you worked for Harry King, they said, because a broken leg was bad for business, and Harry King was all about business. "

― Terry Pratchett , Making Money (Discworld, #36; Moist Von Lipwig, #2)

3 " Igor?' said Moist. 'You have an Igor?'
Oh, yes,' said Hubert. 'That's how I get this wonderful light. They know the secret of storing lightning in jars! But don't let that worry you, Mr Lipspick. Just because I'm employing an Igor and working in a cellar doesn't mean I'm some sort of madman, ha ha ha!'
Ha ha,' agreed Moist.
Ha hah hah!,' said Hubert. 'Hahahahahaha!! Ahahahahahahhhhh!!!!!-'
Bent slapped him on the back. Hubert coughed.
Sorry about that, it's the air down here,' he mumbled. "

― Terry Pratchett , Making Money (Discworld, #36; Moist Von Lipwig, #2)

4 " Plans can break down. You cannot plan the future. Only presumptuous fools plan. The wise man steers. "

― Terry Pratchett , Making Money (Discworld, #36; Moist Von Lipwig, #2)

5 " I think it is just a matter of getting into the mind of the writer,” Vetinari went on, looking at a letter covered with grubby fingerprints and what looked like the remains of someone’s breakfast. He added: “In some cases, I imagine, there is a lot of room. "

― Terry Pratchett , Making Money (Discworld, #36; Moist Von Lipwig, #2)

6 " They are tragic,' said Vetinari, 'and we laugh at their tragedy as we laugh at our own. The painted grin leers out at us from the darkness, mocking our insane belief in order, logic, status, the reality of reality. The mask knows that we are born on the banana skin that leads only to the open manhole cover of doom, and all we can hope for are the cheers of the crowd. "

― Terry Pratchett , Making Money (Discworld, #36; Moist Von Lipwig, #2)

7 " Watching a dog try to chew a large piece of toffee is a pastime fit for gods. Mr. Fusspot's mixed ancestry had given him a dexterity of jaw that was truly awesome. He somersaulted happily around the floor, making faces like a rubber gargoyle in a washing machine. "

― Terry Pratchett , Making Money (Discworld, #36; Moist Von Lipwig, #2)

8 " Insanity is catching. "

― Terry Pratchett , Making Money (Discworld, #36; Moist Von Lipwig, #2)

9 " The only really sane person in there is Igor, and possibly the turnip. And I'm not sure about the turnip. "

― Terry Pratchett , Making Money (Discworld, #36; Moist Von Lipwig, #2)

10 " Students, eh? Love 'em or hate 'em, you can't hit them with a shovel! "

― Terry Pratchett , Making Money (Discworld, #36; Moist Von Lipwig, #2)

11 " I wouldn't trust you with a bucket of water if my knickers were on fire! "

― Terry Pratchett , Making Money (Discworld, #36; Moist Von Lipwig, #2)

12 " You get a wonderful view from the point of no return. "

― Terry Pratchett , Making Money (Discworld, #36; Moist Von Lipwig, #2)

13 " People don't like change. But make the change fast enough and you go from one type of normal to another. "

― Terry Pratchett , Making Money (Discworld, #36; Moist Von Lipwig, #2)

14 " And what had he wanted? He'd never sat down to think about it. But mostly, he wanted yesterday to be different from today. "

― Terry Pratchett , Making Money (Discworld, #36; Moist Von Lipwig, #2)

15 " Building a temple didn't mean you believed in gods, it just meant you believed in architecture. "

― Terry Pratchett , Making Money (Discworld, #36; Moist Von Lipwig, #2)

16 " He sighed. It had come to this. He was a responsible authority, and people could use terms like "core values" at him with impunity. "

― Terry Pratchett , Making Money (Discworld, #36; Moist Von Lipwig, #2)

17 " Mr Lipwig, there's a lady in the hall to see you and we've thanked her for not smoking three times and she's still doing it! "

― Terry Pratchett , Making Money (Discworld, #36; Moist Von Lipwig, #2)

18 " They were indeed what was known as 'old money', which meant that it had been made so long ago that the black deeds which had originally filled the coffers were now historically irrelevant. Funny, that: a brigand for a father was something you kept quiet about, but a slave-taking pirate for a great-great-great-grandfather was something to boast of over the port. Time turned the evil bastards into rogues, and rogue was a word with a twinkle in its eye and nothing to be ashamed of. "

― Terry Pratchett , Making Money (Discworld, #36; Moist Von Lipwig, #2)

19 " This looks like a job for inadvisably applied magic if ever I saw one. "

― Terry Pratchett , Making Money (Discworld, #36; Moist Von Lipwig, #2)

20 " There was no himself in himself. "

― Terry Pratchett , Making Money (Discworld, #36; Moist Von Lipwig, #2)