Pyramids
Terry Pratchett
Top 10 Best Quotes
“The trouble with life was that you didn’t get a chance to practice before doing it for real.”
“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.”
“Mere animals couldn’t possibly manage to act like this. You need to be a human being to be really stupid.”
“Never trust a species that grins all the time. It’s up to something.”
“People needed to believe in gods, if only because it was so hard to believe in people.”
“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.”
“Her singing always cheered him up. Life seemed so much brighter when she stopped.”
“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.”
“When you die, the first thing you lose is your life. The next thing is your illusions.”
“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.”
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