Good Omens Quotes

• Why are we talking about this good and evil? They're just names for sides. We know that.

  Neil Gaiman

  Talking, Names, Evil

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  The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.

  Terry Pratchett

  Inspirational, Life, Spiritual

  Terry Pratchett (2010). “Diggers: The Second Book of the Nomes”, p.34, Random House

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• His parents called him Youngster. They did this in the subconcious hope that he might take the hint. Wensleydale gave the impression of having been born with a mental age of 47.

  Terry Pratchett

  Parent, Age, Hints

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• If you don't turn your life into a story, you just become a part of someone else's story.

  Terry Pratchett

  Life, Powerful, Fantasy Stories

  "Terry Pratchett Toast" by Robert Haynes-Peterson, www.askmen.com.

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• Light thinks it travels faster than anything but it is wrong. No matter how fast light travels, it finds the darkness has always got there first, and is waiting for it.

  Terry Pratchett

  I Hate You, Science, Dark

  "Criminal Minds: Conflicted". TV Series, www.imdb.com. 2009.

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• Bringing about Armageddon can be dangerous. Do not attempt it in your own home.

  Terry Pratchett

  Home, Armageddon, Dangerous

  Neil Gaiman, Terry Pratchett (2011). “Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch”, p.8, Harper Collins

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• Many people, meeting Aziraphale for the first time, formed three impressions: that he was English, that he was intelligent, and that he was gayer than a treeful of monkeys on nitrous oxide.

  Terry Pratchett

  Intelligent, People, Three

  "Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch (Friday)". Book by Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman, May 1, 1990.

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• God moves in extremely mysterious, not to say, circuitous ways. God does not play dice with the universe; He plays an ineffable game of His own devising, which might be compared, from the perspective of any of the other players, ie., everybody, to being involved in an obscure and complex version of poker in a pitch-dark room, with blank cards, for infinite stakes, with a Dealer who won't tell you the rules, and who smiles all the time.

  Terry Pratchett

  Moving, Dark, Player

  "Good Omens". Book by Neil Gaiman, Terry Pratchett, 1990.

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• Most of the great triumphs and tragedies of history are caused not by people being fundamentally good or fundamentally evil, but by people being fundamentally people.

  Terry Pratchett

  People, Evil, Tragedy

  Neil Gaiman, Terry Pratchett (2011). “Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch”, p.30, Harper Collins

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• Time is a drug. Too much of it kills you.

  Terry Pratchett

  Science, Drug, Too Much

  Terry Pratchett (2008). “Small Gods: (Discworld Novel 13)”, p.12, Random House

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• Most books on witchcraft will tell you that witches work naked. This is because most books on witchcraft were written by men.

  Neil Gaiman

  Women, Book, Naked

  "Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch". Book by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett, 1990.

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• I meant," said Ipslore bitterly, "what is there in this world that truly makes living worthwhile?" Death thought about it. CATS, he said eventually. CATS ARE NICE.

  Terry Pratchett

  Life, Death, Nice

  Terry Pratchett (2017). “Terry Pratchett's Discworld Coloring Book”, p.42, Simon and Schuster

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• The ducks in St James's Park are so used to being fed bread by secret agents meeting clandestinely that they have developed their own Pavlovian reaction. Put a St James's Park duck in a laboratory cage and show it a picture of two men -- one usually wearing a coat with a fur collar, the other something sombre with a scarf -- and it'll look up expectantly.

  Neil Gaiman

  Men, Two, Ducks

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• Sometimes glass glitters more than diamonds because it has more to prove.

  Terry Pratchett

  Glasses, Glitter, Fantasy

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• Nothing [the demon] could think up was half as bad as the stuff [people] thought up themselves. They seemed to have a talent for it. It was built into their design somehow. They were born into a world that was against them in a thousand little ways, and then devoted most of their energies to making it worse.

  Neil Gaiman

  Thinking, People, Design

  Neil Gaiman, Terry Pratchett (2011). “Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch”, p.38, Harper Collins

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• She was beautiful, but she was beautiful in the way a forest fire was beautiful.

  Neil Gaiman

  Beautiful, Fire, Way

  "Good Omens". Book by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett, 1990.

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• An Angel who did not so much Fall as Saunter Vaguely Downwards.

  Neil Gaiman

  Fall, Angel

  Neil Gaiman, Terry Pratchett (2011). “Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch”, p.8, Harper Collins

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• But here's some advice, boy. Don't put your trust in revolutions. They always come around again. That's why they're called revolutions.

  Terry Pratchett

  Boys, Advice, Revolution

  Terry Pratchett (2002). “Night watch”, Doubleday UK

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• Evil begins when you begin to treat people as things.

  Terry Pratchett

  Evil People, Fantasy, Treats

  "I Shall Wear Midnight". Book by Terry Pratchett, www.theguardian.com. 2010.

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• The Kraken stirs. And ten billion sushi dinners cry out for vengeance.

  Terry Pratchett

  Kraken, Dinner, Sushi

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• And weren't, when you got right down to it, particularly evil. Human beings mostly aren't. They just get carried away by new ideas, like dressing up in jackboots and shooting people, or dressing up in white sheets and lynching people, or dressing up in tie-dye jeans and and playing guitar at people. Offer people a new creed with a costume and their hearts and minds will follow.

  Neil Gaiman

  Heart, Guitar, Lynching

  Neil Gaiman, Terry Pratchett (2011). “Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch”, p.29, Harper Collins

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• 'Don't think of it as dying,' said Death. 'Just think of it as leaving early to avoid the rush.'

  Terry Pratchett

  Funny, Thinking, Leaving

  "Good Omens". Book by Terry Pratchett, Neil Gaiman, 1990.

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• It may help to understand human affairs to be clear that most of the great triumphs and tragedies of history are caused, not by people being fundamentally good or fundamentally bad, but by people being fundamentally people.

  Neil Gaiman

  Life, People, Tragedy

  Neil Gaiman, Terry Pratchett (2011). “Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch”, p.30, Harper Collins

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• She was beautiful, but she was beautiful in the way a forest fire was beautiful: something to be admired from a distance, not up close.

  Terry Pratchett

  Beautiful, Distance, Fire

  "Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch (Wednesday)". Book by Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman, May 1, 1990.

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• All tapes left in a car for more than about a fortnight metamorphose into Best of Queen albums.

  Terry Pratchett

  Queens, Car, Albums

  Neil Gaiman, Terry Pratchett (2011). “Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch”, p.16, Harper Collins

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