Raising Steam
Terry Pratchett
Top 10 Best Quotes
“In Ankh-Morpork you can be whoever you want to be and sometimes people laugh and sometimes they clap, and mostly and beautifully, they don't really care.”
“That's the trouble, you see. When you've had hatred on your tongue for such a long time, you don't know how to spit it out.”
“The commander went, as they say in Ankh-Morpork, totally Librarian on them.”
“We can't just drop everything, sir!" "Mister Lipwig. Is there something in the word 'tyrant' you do not understand?”
“Moist waited. Lord Vetinari could outstare a statue and make even a statue start to feel nervous and confess. Moist's counter was a fetching grin, which he knew annoyed Vetinari beyond measure, and there was absolute silence in the Oblong Office while blank stare and cheery grin battled it out for supremacy in some other dimension.”
“I have to ask, sir...Why does it have to be done like this?" Vetinari smiled. "Can you keep a secret, Mister Lipwig?" "Oh, yes, sir. I've kept lots." "Capital. And the point is, so can I. You do not need to know.”
“The aristocrats, if such they could be called, generally hated the whole concept of the train on the basis that it would encourage the lower classes to move about and not always be available.”
“Bandits and governments 'ave so much in common that they might be interchangeable anywhere in the world...”
“Moist groaned. It was the crack of seven and he was allergic to the concept of two seven o'clocks in one day.”
“The grags came down heavily on those who did not conform and seemed not to realize that this was like stamping potatoes into the mud to stop them growing.”
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secrets, bandits, aristocrats, mornings, governments, individuality, vetinari, moist-von-lipwig, librarian, tyrant, trains, conformity, humour, raising-steam, discworld
