Terry Pratchett, Good Omens: The Nice And Accurate Prophecies Of Agnes Nutter, Witch Quotes
His parents called him Youngster. They did this in the subconcious hope that he might take the hint. Wensleydale gave the impression of having been born with a mental age of 47.
People couldn't become truly holy, he said, unless they also had the opportunity to be definitively wicked.
Evil in general does not sleep, and therefore doesn't see why anyone else should.
One of the highlights of the first Good Omens tour was Neil and I walking through New York singing Shoehorn with Teeth. Well, we'd had a good breakfast. And you don't get mugged, either.
He'd been an angel once. He hadn't meant to Fall. He'd just hung around with the wrong people.
But the purpose of the book is not the horror, it is horror's defeat.
Oh, he did his best to make their short lives miserable, because that was his job, but nothing he could think up was half as bad as the stuff they thought up themselves.
You do know you could find yourself charged with being a dominant species while under the influence of impulse-driven consumerism, don't you?
He looked up at them, a scruffy Napoleon with his laces trailing, exiled to a rose-trellised Elba.
I don't see what's so triffic about creating people as people and then gettin' upset 'cos they act like people.
Heaven has no taste.""Now-""And not one single sushi restaurant."A look of pain crossed the angel's suddenly very serious face.
MANY PHENOMENA--wars, plagues, sudden audits--have been advanced as evidence for the hidden hand of Satan in the affairs of Man.
Even the pious Scots, locked throughout history in a long-drawn-out battle with their arch-enemies the Scots, managed a few burnings to while away the long winter evenings.
The English, by and large, being a crass and indolent race, were not as keen on burning women as other countries in Europe.
Cats, Dog considered, were clearly a lot tougher than lost souls.
You couldn't get a decent drink in either of them, for a start. And the boredom you got in Heaven was almost as bad as the excitement you got in Hell.
DON'T THINK OF IT AS DYING, said Death. JUST THINK OF IT AS LEAVING EARLY TO AVOID THE RUSH.
You trust him?" he said. "No, " said Hastur. "Right, " said Ligur. It's be a funny old world, he reflected, if demons went round trusting one another.
God does not play games with His loyal servants", said the Metatron, but in a worried tone of voice."Whoopee", said Crowley.