Magrat Quotes

#1. Magrat wondered what it was like, spending your whole life doing something you didn't want to do. Like being dead, she considered, only worse, the reason being, you were alive to suffer it.

Terry Pratchett

#2. Magrat bought occult jewelry as a sort of distraction from being Magrat. She had three large boxes of the stuff and was still exactly the same person.

Terry Pratchett

#3. It's daft, locking us up," said Nanny. "I'd have had us killed."
"That's because you're basically good," said Magrat. "The good are innocent and create justice. The bad are guilty, which is why they invent mercy.

Terry Pratchett

#4. But you don't even like being a Fool!" "I hate it. But that's got nothing to do with it. If I've got to be a Fool, I'll do it properly." "That's really stupid," said Magrat. "Foolish, I'd prefer." The

Terry Pratchett

#5. You're wondering whether I really would cut your throat," panted Magrat. "I don't know either. Think of the fun we could have together, finding out

Terry Pratchett

#6. In a certain light and from a carefully chosen angle, Magrat was not unattractive.

Terry Pratchett

#7. They are ruby-colored, aren't they?" he said. "Well, they're red," said Magrat. "Is red all right?" "They've got to be red." All the other dwarfs nodded. "It's no good if they're not red." Magrat gave him a blank look and shut the door.

Terry Pratchett

#8. And Magrat was sick all night just at the thought of it and had the dire rear.

Terry Pratchett

#9. Magrat said she could never make the wand do that and Esme said no because, she wasted time wishing for thinges to happen instead of working out how to make them happen.

Terry Pratchett

#10. Magrat had used a lot of powder to make her face pale and interesting. It combined with the lavishly applied mascara to give the guard the impression that he was looking at two flies that had crashed into a sugar bowl.

Terry Pratchett

#11. Would you care to share our lunch, old ... good wo ... miss?" he said. "It's only salt pork, I'm afraid." "Meat is extremely bad for the digestive system," said Magrat. "If you could see inside your colon you'd be horrified." "I think I would," muttered Hwel.

Terry Pratchett

#12. If you are ever going to lie, you go to jail for the lie rather than the crime. So believe me, don't ever lie.

Richard M. Nixon

#13. You may ask, "Who wrote the Vedas?" They were not written. The words are the Vedas. A word is Veda, if I can pronounce it rightly. Then it will immediately produce the [desired] effect.

Swami Vivekananda

#14. Aging bodies are fiscal black holes into which you can pour endless amounts of money.

Richard Lamm

#15. In my vocal, I think you can hear something of my earlier times when I'd sing in subway halls for the echo and perform doo-wop on street corners. But I had a lot of influences, too - singers like Sam Cooke, Brook Benton and Roy Hamilton.

Ben E. King

#16. He'd just nod politely and then do exactly what he wanted,

Jon Krakauer

#17. Gossip is more popular than literature.

Hugh Leonard

#18. I've always loved jazz.

Rita Coolidge

#19. It doesn't matter what people call you unless they call you pigeon pie and eat you up.

Evelyn Waugh

#20. In honor of Surgeon General Koop's legacy, we should ensure that the position of surgeon general is protected from political interference, funded appropriately and nominated from the ranks of career public health professionals who merit consideration, as is done in the other uniformed services.

Richard Carmona

#21. The State has a superfluity of testicles, Peersa said with no particular emphasis.

Larry Niven

#22. I have come to believe that politicians are in the business of 'marketing' their product to the public, by exaggerating threats and over-selling government solutions.

Arnold Kling

#23. It is more difficult to look upon victory than upon battle.

Walter Scott

#24. You're wondering if I really would slit your throat. To tell the truth, I don't know either, but think of the fun we could have finding out.

Terry Pratchett

#25. The job of a football coach is to make men do what they don't want to do, in order to achieve what they've always wanted to be.

Tom Landry

#26. The finest gift you can give to any fisherman is to put a good fish back, and who knows if the fish that you caught isn't someone else's gift to you?

Lee Wulff