Hogfather Quotes

#1. Let's see, now ... in HOGFATHER there are a number of stabbings, someone's killed by a man made of knives, someone's killed by the dark, and someone just been killed by a wardrobe. It's a book about the magic of childhood. You can tell.

Terry Pratchett

#2. IT'S A SWORD, said the Hogfather. THEY'RE NOT /MEANT/ TO BE SAFE.

Terry Pratchett

#3. The truth may be out there, but the lies are inside your head.

Terry Pratchett

#4. You can't give her that!' she screamed. 'It's not safe!'
IT'S A SWORD, said the Hogfather. THEY'RE NOT MEANT TO BE SAFE.
'She's a child!' shouted Crumley.
IT'S EDUCATIONAL.
'What if she cuts herself?'
THAT WILL BE AN IMPORTANT LESSON.

Terry Pratchett

#5. Wanna see how creepy I can be?"
-Mr Teatime

Terry Pratchett

#6. Remember, George, this is no time to go wobbly.

Margaret Thatcher

#7. Is there some kind of trouble? Did he do something to the real Hogfather?"
SQUEAK.
"Why won't he tell me?"
SQUEAK.
"Thank you. You've been very helpful.

Terry Pratchett

#8. It was nice to hear the voices of little children at play, provided you took care to be far enough away not to hear what they were actually saying.

Terry Pratchett

#9. If you're such a genius, you wouldn't believe in magic."
"If you weren't such an old coot, you wouldn't need it.

Rosemary Clement-Moore

#10. Biers was where the undead drank. And when Igor the barman was asked for a Bloody Mary, he didn't mix a metaphor.

Terry Pratchett

#11. I really should talk to him. He's had a near-death experience!"
"We all have. It's called living."
(Hogfather)

Terry Pratchett

#12. IT'S THE EXPRESSION ON THEIR LITTLE FACES I LIKE, said the Hogfather.
"You mean sort of fear and awe and not knowing whether to laugh or cry or wet their pants?"
YES. NOW THAT IS WHAT I CALL BELIEF.

Terry Pratchett

#13. I am a deWinter. We do not froth.

Cassandra Clare

#14. Though we live in the world, we must not be of the world.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

#15. three of us who worked together on this book. When Bill Craig of LifeWay

Selma Wilson

#16. It's supposed to be jolly, with mistletoe and holly... and other things ending in olly.

Terry Pratchett

#17. So remember what others think of you depends a lot on what you believe about yourself, what you think you are, what you think about, what you say and what you have proven you can do.

Rita Zahara

#18. Writers are so important.

Adam Driver

#19. Appreciate what they can give, forgive them for what they cannot.

Elizabeth Isaacs