Nanny Ogg Quotes

#1. Nanny Ogg gave this the same consideration as would a nuclear physicist who'd just been told that someone was banging two bits of sub-critical uranium together to keep warm.

Terry Pratchett

#2. Nanny Ogg could see the future in the froth on a beer mug. It invariably showed that she was going to enjoy a refreshing drink which she almost certainly was not going to pay for.

Terry Pratchett

#3. Nanny Ogg never did any housework herself, but she was the cause of housework in other people.

Terry Pratchett

#4. You never know until you look, said Nanny Ogg, expounding her own Uncertainty Principle.

Terry Pratchett

#5. Oh, we're always all right. You remember that. We happen to other people.
-Nanny Ogg

Terry Pratchett

#6. She's a queen. That's pretty high,' said Nanny Ogg. 'Almost as high as witches.

Terry Pratchett

#7. Nanny Ogg scowled and said, "Granny never said as she was better than others. She just got on with it and showed 'em and people worked it out for themselves.

Terry Pratchett

#8. It was central to Nanny Ogg's soul that she never considered herself an old woman, while of course availing herself of every advantage that other people's perceptions of her as such would bring.

Terry Pratchett

#9. Castles, in Nanny Ogg's experience, were like swans. They looked as if they were drifting regally through the waters of Time, but in fact there was a hell of a lot of activity going on underneath.

Terry Pratchett

#10. Nanny Ogg was an attractive lady, which is not the same as being beautiful. She fascinated Casanunda. She was an incredibly comfortable person to be around, partly because she had a mind so broad it could accommodate three football fields and a bowling alley.

Terry Pratchett

#11. It wasn't that Nanny Ogg sang badly. It was just that she could hit notes which, when amplified by a tin bath half full of water, ceased to be sound and became some sort of invasive presence.

Terry Pratchett

#12. Nanny Ogg was sitting out in her back garden in the no-nonsense way of old ladies everywhere, legs wide apart for the healthy circulation of air.

Terry Pratchett

#13. Nanny Ogg was about to say: What? You mean not compliant and self-effacing like what you is, Esme? But she stopped herself. You didn't juggle matches in a fireworks factory.

Terry Pratchett

#14. Nanny Ogg knew how to start spelling 'banana', but didn't know how you stopped.

Terry Pratchett

#15. Nanny Ogg had a pragmatic attitude to the truth; she told it if it was convenient and she couldn't be bothered to make up something more interesting.

Terry Pratchett

#16. Nanny Ogg looked under her bed in case there was a man there. Well, you never knew your luck.

Terry Pratchett

#17. Very well. My name is WxrtHltl-jwlpklz," said the demon smugly.
"Where were you when the vowels were handed out? Behind the door?" said Nanny Ogg.

Terry Pratchett

#18. Nanny Ogg appreciated fine wine in her very own way. It would never have occurred to Casanunda that anyone would top up white wine with port merely because she'd reached the end of the bottle.

Terry Pratchett

#19. Ah ... it says here that she was, I mean is, fairer than all the stars in heaven ... ." They all looked at Tiffany. "You could try doing something with your hair," said Nanny Ogg after a while. "Like what?" said Tiffany. "Like anything, really.

Terry Pratchett

#20. At 66 years of age, I feel about 20.

Robert M. Parker Jr.

#21. It's far easier to forgive an enemy after you've got even with him.

Olin Miller

#22. I did start out in witchcraft to get boys, to tell you the truth.'
'Think I don't know that?'
'What did you start out to get, Esme?'
Granny stopped, and looked up at the frosty sky and then down at the ground.
'Dunno,' she said at last.'Even, I suppose.

Terry Pratchett

#23. While you can fill every heart as your own full of laughter loud as gold and passion quick as silver.

Ryan Adams

#24. Bugger off sweetheart Nanny's busy

Terry Pratchett

#25. He was a lonely ghost uttering a truth that nobody would ever hear.

George Orwell

#26. ...she was definitely feeling several twinkles short of a glitter...

Terry Pratchett

#27. We lead more interesting lives than we think. We are characters in plots, without the compression and numinous sheen. Our lives, examined carefully in all their affinities and links, abound with suggestive meaning, with themes and involute turnings we have not allowed ourselves to see completely.

Don DeLillo

#28. Don't do anything I wouldn't do, if you ever find anything I wouldn't do.

Terry Pratchett

#29. I believe in the brotherhood of man, all men, but I don't believe in brotherhood with anybody who doesn't want brotherhood with me. I believe in treating people right, but I'm not going to waste my time trying to treat somebody right who doesn't know how to return the treatment

Malcolm X

#30. I wouldn't say I'm the best," she said, "but I can't think of anyone better, I have to say.

Terry Pratchett