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Pyramids (Discworld, #7) QUOTES

Pyramids (Discworld, #7) QUOTES

1 " It was said that life was cheap in Ankh-Morpork. This was of course, completely wrong. Life was often very expensive; you could get death for free. "

― Terry Pratchett , Pyramids (Discworld, #7)

2 " Never trust a species that grins all the time. It’s up to something. "

― Terry Pratchett , Pyramids (Discworld, #7)

3 " The trouble with life was that you didn’t get a chance to practice before doing it for real. "

― Terry Pratchett , Pyramids (Discworld, #7)

4 " All assassins had a full-length mirror in their rooms, because it would be a terrible insult to anyone to kill them when you were badly dressed. "

― Terry Pratchett , Pyramids (Discworld, #7)

5 " Mere animals couldn’t possibly manage to act like this. You need to be a human being to be really stupid. "

― Terry Pratchett , Pyramids (Discworld, #7)

6 " People needed to believe in gods, if only because it was so hard to believe in people. "

― Terry Pratchett , Pyramids (Discworld, #7)

7 " The fact is that camels are far more intelligent than dolphins. They are so much brighter that they soon realised that the most prudent thing any intelligent animal can do, if it would prefer its descendants not to spend a lot of time on a slab with electrodes clamped to their brains or sticking mines on the bottom of ships or being patronized rigid by zoologists, is to make bloody certain humans don't find out about it. So they long ago plumped for a lifestyle that, in return for a certain amount of porterage and being prodded with sticks, allowed them adequate food and grooming and the chance to spit in a human's eye and get away with it. "

― Terry Pratchett , Pyramids (Discworld, #7)

8 " Her singing always cheered him up. Life seemed so much brighter when she stopped. "

― Terry Pratchett , Pyramids (Discworld, #7)

9 " They've got something they do it with, I think it's called a mocracy, and it means everyone in the whole country can say who the new Tyrant is. One man ... one vet. ... Everyone has ... the vet. Except for women, of course. And children. And criminals. And slaves. And stupid people. And people of foreign extraction. And people disapproved of for, er, various reasons. And lots of other people. But everyone apart from them. It's a very enlightened civilization. "

― Terry Pratchett , Pyramids (Discworld, #7)

10 " All things are defined by names. Change the name, and you change the thing. "

― Terry Pratchett , Pyramids (Discworld, #7)

11 " When you die, the first thing you lose is your life. The next thing is your illusions. "

― Terry Pratchett , Pyramids (Discworld, #7)

12 " Priests were metal-reinforced overshoes. They saved your soles. This is an Assassin joke. "

― Terry Pratchett , Pyramids (Discworld, #7)

13 " He'd wanted changes. It was just that he'd wanted things to stay the same, as well. "

― Terry Pratchett , Pyramids (Discworld, #7)

14 " Broadly, therefore, the three even now lurching across the deserted planks of the Brass Bridge were dead drunk assassins and the men behind them were bent on inserting the significant comma. "

― Terry Pratchett , Pyramids (Discworld, #7)

15 " That’s how we survive infinity - we kill it by breaking it up into small bits. "

― Terry Pratchett , Pyramids (Discworld, #7)

16 " Seeing, contrary to popular wisdom, isn’t believing. It’s where belief stops, because it isn’t needed anymore. "

― Terry Pratchett , Pyramids (Discworld, #7)

17 " Teppic hadn’t been educated. Education had just settled on him, like dandruff. "

― Terry Pratchett , Pyramids (Discworld, #7)

18 " The conversation of human beings seldom interested him, but it crossed his mind that the males and females always got along best when neither actually listened fully to what the other one was saying. "

― Terry Pratchett , Pyramids (Discworld, #7)

19 " It is now known to science that there are many more dimensions than the classical four. Scientists say that these don’t normally impinge on the world because the extra dimensions are very small and curve in on themselves, and that since reality is fractal most of it is tucked inside itself. This means either that the universe is more full of wonders than we can hope to understand or, more probably, that scientists make things up as they go along. "

― Terry Pratchett , Pyramids (Discworld, #7)

20 " It will certainly show what our ancestors would be thinking if they were alive today. People have often speculated about this. Would they approve of modern society, they ask, would they marvel at present-day achievements? And of course this misses a fundamental point. What our ancestors would really be thinking, if they were alive today, is: "Why is it so dark in here? "

― Terry Pratchett , Pyramids (Discworld, #7)