He felt as if he'd been shipwrecked on the Titanic but in the nick of time had been rescued. By the Lusitania.
(Mort)
He felt as if he'd been shipwrecked on the Titanic but in the nick of time had been rescued. By the Lusitania.
(Mort)
Tragic heroes always moan when the gods take an interest in them, but it's the people the gods ignore who get the really tough deals.
(Mort)
'Does he have people put to death?' said Mort.
SOMETIMES. THERE ARE SOME THINGS YOU HAVE TO DO, WHEN YOU'RE A KING.
(Mort)
'Everything will be all right. From History's point of view, that is. There really isn't any other.'
(Mort)
He remembered the knowledge. He remembered feeling his mind as cold as ice and limitless as the night sky. He remembered being summoned into reluctant existence at the moment the first creature lived, in the certain knowledge that he would outlive life until the last being in the universe passed to its reward, when it would be his job, figuratively speaking, to put the chairs on the tables and turn all the lights off.
He remembered the loneliness.
(Mort)
- "My granny says that dying is like going to sleep," Mort added, a shade
hopefully.
- I WOULDN'T KNOW. I HAVE DONE NEITHER.
(Mort)
Although the scythe isn't pre-eminent among the weapons of war, anyone who
has been on the wrong end of, say, a peasants' revolt will know that in
skilled hands it is fearsome.
(Mort)
History has a habit of changing the people who think they are changing it.
(Mort)
Only one creature could have duplicated the expressions on their faces, and
that would be a pigeon who has heard not only that Lord Nelson has got down
off his column but has also been seen buying a 12-bore repeater and a box
of cartridges.
(Mort)
NO. I CANNOT BE BIDDEN. I CANNOT BE FORCED. I WILL DO ONLY THAT WHICH I KNOW TO BE RIGHT.
(Mort)
“When a man is tired of Ankh-Morpork, he is tired of ankle-deep slurry.”
(Mort)
“It would seem that you have no useful skill or talent whatsoever,” he
said. "Have you thought of going into teaching?"
(Mort)
It is a fact that although the Death of the Discworld is, in his own words,
an ANTHROPOMORPHIC PERSONIFICATION, he long ago gave up using the
traditional skeletal horses, because of the bother of having to stop all
the time to wire bits back on.
(Mort)
'Pardon me for living, I'm sure.'
NO-ONE GETS PARDONED FOR LIVING.
(Mort)
'You know the worst of it?' said Rincewind.
'Oook?'
'I don't even remember walking under a mirror.'
(Mort)
People don't alter history any more than birds alter the sky, they just make brief patterns on it.
(Mort)
- "Pardon me for living, I'm sure."
- NO-ONE GETS PARDONED FOR LIVING.
(Mort)
“Do not meddle in the affairs of wizards because a refusal often offends,
I read somewhere.”
(Mort)
The only things known to go faster than ordinary light is monarchy,
according to the philosopher Ly Tin Weedle. He reasoned like this: you
can't have more than one king, and tradition demands that there is no gap
between kings, so when a king dies the succession must therefore pass to
the heir *instantaneously*. Presumably, he said, there must be some
elementary particles -- kingons, or possibly queons -- that do this job,
but of course succession sometimes fails if, in mid-flight, they strike an
anti-particle, or republicon. His ambitious plans to use his discovery to
send messages, involving the careful torturing of a small king in order to
modulate the signal, were never fully expanded because, at that point, the
bar closed.
(Mort)
Poets have tried to describe Ankh-Morpork. They have failed. Perhaps it's
the sheer zestful vitality of the place, or maybe it's just that a city
with a million inhabitants and no sewers is rather robust for poets, who
prefer daffodils and no wonder.
(Mort)