Lords And Ladies Quotes

• Elves are wonderful. They provoke wonder. Elves are marvellous. They cause marvels. Elves are fantastic. They create fantasies. Elves are glamorous. They project glamour. Elves are enchanting. They weave enchantment. Elves are terrific. They beget terror. The thing about words is that meanings can twist just like a snake, and if you want to find snakes look for them behind words that have changed their meaning. No one ever said elves are nice. Elves are bad.

  Terry Pratchett

  Nice, Snakes, Twists

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• The thing about words is that meanings can twist just like a snake, and if you want to find snakes look for them behind words that have changed their meaning.

  Terry Pratchett

  Snakes, Twists, Enchantment

  Terry Pratchett (2008). “Lords And Ladies: (Discworld Novel 14)”, p.179, Random House

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• In the beginning there was nothing, which exploded.

  Terry Pratchett

  Humorous, Science, Discworld

  "Lords and Ladies". Book by Terry Pratchett, www.theguardian.com. 1992.

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• The shortest unit of time in the multiverse is the New York Second, defined as the period of time between the traffic lights turning green and the cab behind you honking.

  Terry Pratchett

  New York, Light, Green

  "Lords and Ladies" by Terry Pratchett, Harper, (p. 282), October 2008.

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• Using a metaphor in front of a man as unimaginative as Ridcully was like a red flag to a bu... was like putting something very annoying in front of someone who was annoyed by it.

  Terry Pratchett

  Men, Red Flags, Annoyed

  "Lords And Ladies". Book by Terry Pratchett, 1992.

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• Verence would rather cut his own leg off than put a witch in prison, since it'd save trouble in the long run and probably be less painful.

  Terry Pratchett

  Running, Cutting, Long

  Terry Pratchett (2008). “Lords And Ladies: (Discworld Novel 14)”, p.41, Random House

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• The Monks of Cool, whose tiny and exclusive monastery is hidden in a really cool and laid-back valley in the lower Ramtops, have a passing-out test for a novice. He is taken into a room full of all types of clothing and asked: Yo, my son, which of these is the most stylish thing to wear? And the correct answer is: Hey, whatever I select.

  Terry Pratchett

  Taken, Son, Novices

  "Lords And Ladies". Book by Terry Pratchett, 1992.

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• No matter what she did with her hair it took about three minutes for it to tangle itself up again, like a garden hosepipe in a shed [Which, no matter how carefully coiled, will always uncoil overnight and tie the lawnmower to the bicycles].

  Terry Pratchett

  Garden, Hair, Ties

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• Once out of nature I shall never take
  My bodily form from any natural thing,
  But such a form as Grecian goldsmiths make

  William Butler Yeats

  Art, Nature, Byzantium

  "Sailing to Byzantium" l. 25 (1928)

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• In fact, the mere act of opening the box will determine the state of the
  cat, although in this case there were three determinate states the cat
  could be in: these being Alive, Dead, and Bloody Furious.

  Terry Pratchett

  Cat, Alive, Facts

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• Personal’s not the same as important. People just think it is.

  Terry Pratchett

  Thinking, People, Important

  "Lords And Ladies". Book by Terry Pratchett, 1992.

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• This is a lovely party," said the Bursar to a chair, "I wish I was here.

  Terry Pratchett

  Party, Lovely, Wish

  Terry Pratchett (2008). “Lords And Ladies: (Discworld Novel 14)”, p.380, Random House

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• Shoot the dictator and prevent the war? But the dictator is merely the tip of the whole festering boil of social pus from which dictators emerge; shoot him and there'll be another one along in a minute. Shoot him too? Why not shoot everyone and invade Poland?

  Terry Pratchett

  War, Why Not, Dictator

  Terry Pratchett (2008). “Lords And Ladies: (Discworld Novel 14)”, p.125, Random House

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• If cats looked like frogs we'd realize what nasty, cruel little bastards they are. Style. That's what people remember.

  Terry Pratchett

  Life, Cat, People

  "Lords and Ladies" by Terry Pratchett, Harper, (p. 158), October 2008.

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• Nanny Ogg looked under her bed in case there was a man there. Well, you never knew your luck.

  Terry Pratchett

  Good Luck, Men, Bed

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• Nanny Ogg never did any housework herself, but she was the cause of housework in other people.

  Terry Pratchett

  People, Nannies, Causes

  Terry Pratchett (2008). “Lords And Ladies: (Discworld Novel 14)”, p.29, Random House

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• The place is changed now, and many familiar faces are gone, but the greatest change is myself. I was a child then, I had no idea what the world would be like. I wished to trust myself on the waters and the sea. Everything was romantic in my imagination. The woods were peopled by the mysterious good folk. The Lords and Ladies of the last century walked with me along the overgrown paths, and picked the old fashioned flowers among the box and rose hedges of the garden.

  Beatrix Potter

  Children, Growing Up, Flower

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• The Rich arrived in pairs
  And also in Rolls Royces;
  They talked of their affairs
  In loud and strident voices...
  
  The Poor arrived in Fords,
  Whose features they resembled;
  They laughed to see so many Lords
  And Ladies all assembled.
  
  The People in Between
  Looked underdone and harassed,
  And our of place and mean,
  And Horribly embarrassed.

  Hilaire Belloc

  Mean, Voice, People

  Hilaire Belloc (1970). “Complete verse [of] H. Belloc: including Sonnets and verse, Cautionary verses, The modern traveller, etc”

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• I have supped mead with lords and ladies; so to have I slumbered in nameless lanes and gored upon mutton.

  Dusty Rhodes

  Superstar, Mutton, Lanes

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• Once out of nature I shall never take My bodily form from any natural thing, But such a form as Grecian goldsmiths make Of hammered gold and gold enameling To keep a drowsy Emperor awake; Or set upon a golden bough to sing To lords and ladies of Byzantium Of what is past, or passing, or to come.

  William Butler Yeats

  Nature, Past, Byzantium

  "Sailing to Byzantium" l. 30 (1928)

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• I’m so sorry we’ll never meet,” she whispered, laying her posy atop the late Lord and Lady Payne’s grave. “But thank you. For him. I promise, I’ll love him as fiercely as I can. Kindly send down some blessings when you can spare them. We’ll probably need them, from time to time.

  Tessa Dare

  Sorry, Blessing, Promise

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• Well, the news has got around. The Duchess of Keepsake has invited us to a ball, Sir Henry and Lady Withering have invited us to a ball, and Lord and Lady Hangfinger have invited us to... yes, a ball." "Well, that's a lot of..." "Don't you dare, Sam.

  Terry Pratchett

  Balls, News, Duchess

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• He was transfixed at the sight of the lords and ladies of his realm running about like demented chickens.

  Jonathan Stroud

  Running, Sight, Chickens

  "The Amulet of Samarkand (The Bartimaeus Trilogy, Book 1)". Book by Jonathan Stroud, September 30, 2003.

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• A mist. A great mist. It covered the entire kingdom. And everyone in it - the good people and the not so good, the young people and the not-so-young, and even Briar Rose's mother and father fell asleep. Everyone slept: lords and ladies, teacher and tummlers, dogs and doves, rabbits and rabbitzen and all kinds of citizens. So fast asleep they were, they were not able to wake up for a hundred years.

  Jane Yolen

  Mother, Teacher, Dog

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