Lord Vetinari Quotes

#1. I was merely endeavoring to indicate that if we do not grab events by the collar they will have us by the throat.
-Lord Vetinari

Terry Pratchett

#2. As they stepped out into the silent street he wondered if Lord Vetinari had been right about the press. There was something ... compelling about it. It was like a dog that stared at you until you fed it. A slightly dangerous dog. Dog bites man, he thought. But that's not news. That's olds.

Terry Pratchett

#3. Lord Vetinari in a meeting: what people said was what they wanted him to hear. He paid a lot of attention to the spaces outside the words, though. That's where the things were that they hoped he didn't know and didn't want him to find out.

Terry Pratchett

#4. Mr. Lipwig, this morning you had no experience at all of being dead, and yet but for my intervention you would nevertheless have turned out to be extremely good at it," said Lord Vetinari sharply. "It just goes to show: you never know until you try.

Terry Pratchett

#5. It's bad enough barging into Guild property, but we'll get into really serious trouble if we shoot anyone. Lord Vetinari won't stop at sarcasm. He might use' - Colon swallowed - 'irony.

Terry Pratchett

#6. I must confess the activities of the UK governments for the past couple of years have been watched with frank admiration and amazement by Lord Vetinari. Outright theft as a policy had never occurred to him.

Terry Pratchett

#7. Lord Vetinari lifted an eyebrow with the care of one who, having found a piece of caterpillar in his salad, raises the rest of the lettuce.

Terry Pratchett

#8. And these are your reasons, my lord?"
"Do you think I have others?" said Lord Vetinari. "My motives, as ever, are entirely transparent."
Hughnon reflected that 'entirely transparent' meant either that you could see right through them or that you couldn't see them at all.

Terry Pratchett

#9. The Ankh-Morpork Trespassers' Society was originally the Explorers' Society until Lord Vetinari forcibly insisted that most of the places 'discovered' by the society's members already had people in them, who were already trying to sell snakes to the newcomers.

Terry Pratchett

#10. Everybody present laughed nervously, except Lord Vetinari, who just laughed.

Terry Pratchett

#11. Your excellency, if you persist in this attitude a complaint will go to your Lord Vetinari!"
"He does so look forward to them.

Terry Pratchett

#12. In your hearts you all want to fly free.

George R R Martin

#13. To see fans singing your songs back to you is an indescribable thing.

Brendon Urie

#14. You don't feel honest on a date, I guess. You don't really get to learn about anyone. You're kind of being polite and you can ask the questions, it's just not a great time for me.

Vince Vaughn

#15. If loving and communing with God isn't your primary purpose in prayer, you're missing out on what Christianity is all about!

Andrew Wommack

#16. Deeper meaning resides in the fairy tales told me in my childhood than any truth that is taught in life.

Friedrich Schiller

#17. No practical definition of freedom would be completely without the freedom to take the consequences. Indeed, it is the freedom upon which all the others are based.
-Lord Havelock Vetinari-

Terry Pratchett

#18. True gladness doth not always speak; joy, bred and born but in the tongue, is weak.

Ben Jonson

#19. There is a tale, as old as the Ancient Ones themselves, that one would arise who has that gift: to sing all the chantments, the high notes and the low, the swift rhythms and the slow. And this person would be more powerful than even the Ancient Ones were, as powerful as the gods themselves.

Kate Constable

#20. You can coddle your rage, or you can fully engage.

Tony Cleaver

#21. In all our relationships each one of us builds an image about the other and these two images have relationship, not the human beings themselves ... The actual relationship between two human beings or between many human beings completely ends when there is the formation of images.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

#22. The female mind is certainly a devious one, my lord."
Vetinari looked at his secretary in surprise. "Well, of course it is. It has to deal with the male one.

Terry Pratchett

#23. I was glib, even witty, or at least that's how I imagined myself.

Siri Hustvedt

#24. I don't like messing up. I think that's just a part of my personality. I don't like to mess up or do anything wrong. When I'm in gymnastics, I like to see my hit percent as high as possible.

Jacob Dalton

#25. The only certainty life contains is death.

Patricia Briggs

#26. One of my favorite poets, Neruda, writes close to the bone. Though I know only a little Spanish, I like to compare the Spanish and English lines and see how the translator worked.

Anita Diament

#27. I feel lost and confused, but happy and certain. I am like a ball of tangled yarn. The parts that are untangled are available, useable; the rest is a mess, useless until it is untied. That mess feels endless and at most times unyielding.

Astrid Lee Miles