'The world is changing and it needs its shepherds and sometimes its butchers.' (RS)
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'Why, Mister Lipwig? You of all people ask me why? The man who danced on the train roof, the man who actually looks for trouble if it appears to be the kind of trouble which is associated with the term derring-do? Though in your case a few more derring-dont's might be a good idea. Sometimes, Mister Lipwig, the young you that you lost many years ago comes back and taps you on the shoulder and says, "This is the moment when civilization does not matter, when rules no longer hold sway. You have given the world all you can give and now it's the time that is just for you, the chance to go for broke in the last hurrah. Hurrah!" (RS)
'If you take enough precautions, you never need to take precautions.' (RS)
The Queen appeared as innocent as one of those mountains which year after year do nothing very much but smoke a little, and then one day end up causing a whole civilization to become an art installation. (RS)
'I'm good at putting rumours, suspicions and instinct together and getting the right result, because I'm a scoundrel.' (RS)
'... we are not little folk. We are big on the inside.' (RS)
And then the King was running towards the flames, adopting the traditional dwarf strategy of running at the enemy with as much weaponry as you could swing. (RS).
That was the trouble with royalty. However decent they were, and understanding, they were also likely to think that such things as security arrangements were for other people. (RS)
... trying to fight while a busy goblin was in your underwear was very bad for the concentration. (RS)
There were spices from Klatch, materials from the Counterweight Continent which had arrived by slow barge, other mysterious delicacies, and unfortunately many ways to become very happy in a short space of time and stone dead shortly afterwards. (RS)
'... although it's vexing to remember it, I am the King of my enemies as well as my friends. There's a certain noblesse oblige, see. It's a bad king who kills his subjects. I would rather see them humiliated than dead.' (RS)
Hate - Terry Pratchett quote'When you've had hatred on your tongue for such a long time, you don't know how to spit it out'. (RS)
That was what technology was doing. It was your slave but, in a sense, it might be the other way round. (RS)
... if you got the customer laughing then you had their money in your pocket. (RS)
She just looked the look of a wife who was putting up with her husband's funny little ways for which he would suffer in the boudoir later. (RS)
Moist forced his face to go so deadpan that it might have actually been dead. (RS)
'I find it amazing and, of course, annoying but so far he has always succeeded, which is why, therefore, all of his extremities are in their rightful place.' (RS)
Slake was one of those places, Moist thought, that you put on the map because it was embarrassing to have a map with holes in it. (RS)
And the trouble with madness was that the mad didn't know they were mad. (RS)
There is something vaguely worrying about the word 'reckon' that leaves the ear, for many hard to understand reasons, wishing it was something else a little more certain and a little less frightening. (RS)
Colon and Nobby had lived a long time in a dangerous occupation and the knew how not to be dead. To wit, by arriving when the bad guys had got away. (RS)
"Two dwarfs is an argument, three dwarfs is a war." (RS)
'Tak does not require that you think of him, but he does require that you think ...' (RS)
'It's a harebrained idea, of course, otherwise you wouldn't have had it, would you?' (RS)
'... bandits and governments 'ave so much in common that they might be interchangeable anywhere in the world ...' (RS)
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