Wyrd Sisters Quotes

“had a mind that ticked like a clock and, like a clock, it regularly went cuckoo.”
― Terry Pratchett, Wyrd Sisters

“After a few minutes Granny’s front door opened. This was an event in its own right; like most Ramtoppers Granny lived her life via the back door. There were only three times in your life when it was proper to come through the front door, and you were carried every time.”
― Terry Pratchett, Wyrd Sisters

“She turned and looked at the gates. There were two extremely apprehensive guards on duty. She walked up to them, and fixed one of them with a look. ‘I am a harmless old seller of apples,’ she said, in a voice more appropriate for the opening of hostilities in a middle-range war. ‘Pray let me past, dearie.’ The last word had knives in it.”
― Terry Pratchett, Wyrd Sisters

“A key to the understanding of all religion is that a god's idea of amusement is Snakes and Ladders with greased rungs.”
― Terry Pratchett, Wyrd Sisters

“just because things are obvious doesn’t mean they’re true.”
― Terry Pratchett, Wyrd Sisters

“Hogswatchnight came around, marking the start of another year. And, with alarming suddenness, nothing happened.”
― Terry Pratchett, Wyrd Sisters

“Possession is nine parts of the law, husband,”
― Terry Pratchett, Wyrd Sisters

“She had been deep in conversation with the Fool, although it was the kind of conversation where both parties spend a lot of time looking at their feet and picking at their fingernails. Ninety per cent of true love is acute, ear-burning embarrassment.”
― Terry Pratchett, Wyrd Sisters

“Granny Weatherwax was often angry. She considered it one of her strong points. Genuine anger was one of the world’s great creative forces. But”
― Terry Pratchett, Wyrd Sisters

“След няколко минути предната врата на Бабината колиба се отвори. Това бе събитие...Съществуват само три събития в живота на човек, когато подобава да се мине през предната врата, като и в трите го носят.”
― Тери Пратчет, Wyrd Sisters

“Все ми се струва, че отговорното поведение е нещо, което се придобива с напредването на възрастта. Като разширените вени, да речем.”
― Terry Pratchett, Wyrd Sisters

“Само в сънищата си ние сме свободни. През останалото време работим за надниците си.”
― Terry Pratchett, Wyrd Sisters

“Trzeba urodzić się błaznem, by zostać królem. "Trzy wiedźmy”
― Terry Pratchett, Wyrd Sisters

“In—in the Guild,” said the Fool, “we learned that words can be more powerful even than magic.”
― Terry Pratchett, Wyrd Sisters

“Things that try to look like things often do look more like things than things. Well-known fact,”
― Terry Pratchett, Wyrd Sisters

“Quaffing is like drinking, but you spill more.”
― Terry Pratchett, Wyrd Sisters

“for a fleeting instant knew what it was to be a fat old man, pickled in wine, fighting old wars that no one cared about anymore, hanging grimly onto the precipice of late middle-age for fear of dropping off into antiquity, but only with one hand, because with the other he was giving the finger to Death.”
― Terry Pratchett, Wyrd Sisters

“Even so, he'd persevered. He'd spent his whole life persevering.”
― Terry Pratchett, Wyrd Sisters

“Only in the entire history of witchery in the Ramtops, had a thief broken into a witch's cottage. The witch concerned visited the most terrible punishment on him:

She did nothing, although sometimes when she saw him in the village she'd smile a in a faint, puzzled way. After three weeks of this the suspense was too much for him and he took his own life; in fact, he took it all the way across the continent, where he became a reformed character and never went home again.”
― Terry Pratchett, Wyrd Sisters

“Senin iğrenç iltifatlarına karşı sağırım," dedi dük. "Senin şeytani cilvelerini hor görüyorum. İşkence göreceksin, bilsen iyi olur."
Bu gereken etkiyi yaratmamış gibiydi. Dadı zindana, bir turistin meraklı ilgisiyle göz gezdiriyordu.
"Sonra da yakılacaksın," dedi düşes
"Tamam," dedi dadı.
"Tamam mı?"
"Eh, bu lanet yer buz gibi. Oradaki çivili büyük gardrop gibi şey ne?"
Dük titriyordu. "Aha" dedi. "Artık anladın ha? O sevgili hanımefendi, Demir Leydi. En son model. Şimdi onu-"
"İçine girip bakabilir miyim?"
"Yakarışlarına kulaklarım sağır..." Dükün sesi soldu gitti. Tikleri gene başladı.”
― Terry Pratchett, Wyrd Sisters

“A dog doesn’t care if its master’s good or bad, just so long as it likes the dog.”
― Terry Pratchett, Wyrd Sisters

“*Involving a red hot poker, a privy, ten pounds of live eels, a three mile stretch of frozen river, a butt of wine, a couple of tulip bulbs, a number of poisoned eardrops, an oyster and a large man with a mallet. King Murune didn’t make friends easily.”
― Terry Pratchett, Wyrd Sisters

“By the way,” he said, “exactly how does one quaff?” “I think it means you spill most of it,” said Hwel.”
― Terry Pratchett, Wyrd Sisters

“A witch doesn't know the meaning of the world "failure".”
― Terry Pratchett, Wyrd Sisters

“When you break rules, break ‘em good and hard,”
― Terry Pratchett, Wyrd Sisters

“a chin you could clean pots with.”
― Terry Pratchett, Wyrd Sisters

“What I’m saying is,’ said Granny firmly, ‘that we’ve got a king who is no worse than most and better than many and who’s got his head screwed on right—’ ‘Even if it is against the thread,’ said Nanny.”
― Terry Pratchett, Wyrd Sisters

“If I’d had to buy you, you wouldn’t be worth the price.”
― Terry Pratchett, Wyrd Sisters

“A man walked across the moors from Razorback to Lancre town without seeing a single marshlight, headless dog, strolling tree, ghostly coach or comet, and had to be taken in by a tavern and given a drink to unsteady his nerves.”
― Terry Pratchett, Wyrd Sisters

“She added, “People have to sort it out for themselves. Well-known fact.”
― Terry Pratchett, Wyrd Sisters