Lords And Ladies Quotes

Lords And Ladies Quotes by Terry Pratchett, William Butler Yeats, Jonathan Stroud, Dusty Rhodes and many others.

The shortest unit of time in the multiverse is the New

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
Personal’s not the same as important. People just think it is.
Terry Pratchett
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
If cats looked like frogs we’d realize what nasty, cruel little bastards they are. Style. That’s what people remember.
Terry Pratchett
In the beginning there was nothing, which exploded.
Terry Pratchett
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
This is a lovely party,” said the Bursar to a chair, “I wish I was here.
Terry Pratchett
Nanny Ogg looked under her bed in case there was a man there. Well, you never knew your luck.
Terry Pratchett
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
He was transfixed at the sight of the lords and ladies of his realm running about like demented chickens.
Jonathan Stroud
I have supped mead with lords and ladies; so to have I slumbered in nameless lanes and gored upon mutton.
Dusty Rhodes
Nanny Ogg never did any housework herself, but she was the cause of housework in other people.
Terry Pratchett
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
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
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
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