Terry Pratchett Quotes About Enemies

Quotes about: Enemies

• The enemy isn’t men, or women, it’s bloody stupid people and no-one has the right to be stupid.

  Terry Pratchett

  Stupid, Men, People

• A weapon you held and didn't know how to use belonged to your enemy.

  Terry Pratchett

  Enemy, Weapons, Use

• Noble dragons don't have friends. The nearest they can get to the idea is an enemy who is still alive.

  Terry Pratchett

  Dragons, Ideas, Enemy

  "Guards! Guards!". Book by Terry Pratchett, 1989.

• It is always useful to face an enemy who is prepared to die for his country," he read. "This means that both you and he have exactly the same aim in mind.

  Terry Pratchett

  Country, Mean, Mind

• They called themselves the Munrungs. It meant The People, or The True Human Beings. It's what most people call themselves, to begin with. And then one day the tribe meets some other People or, if it's not been a good day, The Enemy. If only they'd think up a name like Some More True Human Beings, it'd save a lot of trouble later on

  Terry Pratchett

  Good Day, Thinking, Names

  Terry Pratchett (2009). “The Carpet People”, p.1, Random House

• Aziraphale. The Enemy, of course. But an enemy for six thousand years now, which made him a sort of friend.

  Terry Pratchett

  Years, Enemy, Six

  Neil Gaiman, Terry Pratchett (2011). “Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch”, p.39, Harper Collins

• That's why it's always worth having a few philosophers around the place. One minute it's all is truth beauty and is beauty truth, and does a falling tree in the forest make a sound if there's no one there to hear it, and then just when you think they're going to start dribbling one of 'em says, incidentally, putting a thirty-foot parabolic reflector on a high place to shoot the rays of the sun at an enemy's ships would be a very interesting demonstration of optical principles.

  Terry Pratchett

  Fall, Thinking, Feet

  "Small Gods". Book by ‎Terry Pratchett, 1992.

• Ankh-Morpork! Pearl of cities! This is not a completely accurate description, of course — it was not round and shiny — but even its worst enemies would agree that if you had to liken Ankh-Morpork to anything, then it might as well be a piece of rubbish covered with the diseased secretions of a dying mollusc.

  Terry Pratchett

  Worst Enemy, Cities, Dying

  Terry Pratchett (2012). “The Wit and Wisdom of Discworld”, p.16, Harper Collins

• He's probably their battle poet, too." "You mean he makes up heroic songs about famous battles?" "No, no. He recites poems that frighten the enemy....When a well-trained gonnagle starts to recite, the enemy's ears explode.

  Terry Pratchett

  Song, Mean, Enemy

• Belief sloshes around in the firmament like lumps of clay spiralling into a potter's wheel. That's how gods get created, for example. They clearly must be created by their own believers, because a brief resume of the lives of most gods suggests that their origins certainly couldn't be divine. They tend to do exactly the things people would do if only they could, especially when it comes to nymphs, golden showers, and the smiting of your enemies.

  Terry Pratchett

  Nymphs, People, Enemy

• He moved on, in the centre of a widening circle. He wasn't an enemy, he was a nemesis.

  Terry Pratchett

  Circles, Enemy, Moved On

• Anyway, just because you're sworn enemies doesn't mean you can't be friends, does it?

  Terry Pratchett

  Mean, Enemy, Doe

  "The Carpet People". Book by Terry Pratchett, 1971.

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