Guards! Guards! Quotes

“They accept evil not because they say yes, but because they don’t say no.”

― Terry Pratchett, Guards! Guards!

topic:evil

“I mean, it’s a good job we’ve got a last desperate million-to-one chance to rely on, or we’d really be in trouble!”

― Terry Pratchett, Guards! Guards!

topic:hope

“His age was indeterminate. But in cynicism and general world weariness, which is a sort of carbon dating of the personality, he was about seven thousand years old.”

― Terry Pratchett, Guards! Guards!

topic:age personality

“the man was clearly guilty. You could tell just by looking at him. Not, perhaps, guilty of anything specific. Just guilty in general terms.”

― Terry Pratchett, Guards! Guards!

topic:appearance

“The three rules of the Librarians of Time and Space are: 1) Silence; 2) Books must be returned no later than the last date shown; and 3) Do not interfere with the nature of causality.”

― Terry Pratchett, Guards! Guards!

topic:silence

“But all this business about kings and lords, it’s against basic human dignity. We’re all born equal. It makes me sick.”

― Terry Pratchett, Guards! Guards!

“People were stupid, sometimes. They thought the Library was a dangerous place because of all the magical books, which was true enough, but what made it really one of the most dangerous places there could ever be was the simple fact that it was a...”

― Terry Pratchett, Guards! Guards!

topic:danger

“If you can't beat it or corrupt it, you pretend it was your idea in the first place.”

― Terry Pratchett, Guards! Guards!

topic:cowardice

“you find life such a problem because you think there are the good people and the bad people . . . You're wrong, of course. There are, always and only, the bad people, but some of them are on opposite sides.”

― Terry Pratchett, Guards! Guards!

“Vimes had never mastered ambition. It was something that happened to other people.”

― Terry Pratchett, Guards! Guards!

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