Terry Pratchett: Frasi in inglese

Terry Pratchett era scrittore e glottoteta britannico. Frasi in inglese.

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“They'd smash up the world if they thought it would make a pretty noise.”

Terry Pratchett libro Lords and Ladies

Origine: Lords and Ladies

“I staggered into a Manchester bar late one night on a tour and the waitress said "You look as if you need a Screaming Orgasm". At the time this was the last thing on my mind…”

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“He felt that the darkness was full of unimaginable horrors - and the trouble with unimaginable horrors was that they were only too easy to imagine…”

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Terry Pratchett libro The Light Fantastic

Origine: The Light Fantastic

“… people didn't seem to be able to remember what it was like with the elves around. Life was certainly more interesting then, but usually because it was shorter. And it was more colorful, if you liked the color of blood.”

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Terry Pratchett libro Lords and Ladies

Origine: Lords and Ladies

“And, as always happens, and happens far too soon, the strange and wonderful becomes a memory and a memory becomes a dream. Tomorrow it's gone.”

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Terry Pratchett libro Wintersmith

Origine: Wintersmith

“You just put that sword away, sir, please," said the voice of Lance-Constable Vimes.
"You will not shoot me, you young idiot. That would be murder," said the captain calmly.
"Not where I'm aiming, sir.”

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Terry Pratchett libro Night Watch

Origine: Night Watch

“Students, eh? Love 'em or hate 'em, you can't hit them with a shovel!”

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Terry Pratchett libro Making Money

Origine: Making Money

“Mind you, the Elizabethans had so many words for the female genitals that it is quite hard to speak a sentence of modern English without inadvertently mentioning at least three of them.”

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“Modesty is only arrogance by stealth.”

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Terry Pratchett The Long Earth

Origine: The Long Earth

“Everywhere's been where it is ever since it was first put there. It's called geography.”

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Terry Pratchett libro Wyrd Sisters

Origine: Wyrd Sisters

“… William wondered why he always disliked people who said 'no offense meant.' Maybe it was because they found it easier to to say 'no offense meant' than actually to refrain from giving offense.”

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Terry Pratchett libro The Truth

Origine: The Truth

“One day a tortoise will learn how to fly.”

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Terry Pratchett libro Tartarughe divine

Origine: Small Gods

“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.”

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“It was the living who ignored the strange and wonderful, because life was too full of the boring and mundane.”

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Terry Pratchett libro Il tristo mietitore

Origine: Reaper Man

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

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Origine: Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch

“Verence would rather cut his own leg off than put a witch in prison, since it'd save trouble in the long run and probably be less painful.”

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Terry Pratchett libro Lords and Ladies

Origine: Lords and Ladies

“Two types of people laugh at the law: those that break it and those that make it.”

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Terry Pratchett libro Night Watch

Origine: Night Watch

“Someone out there was about to find that their worst nightmare was a maddened Librarian. With a badge.”

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Terry Pratchett libro Guards! Guards!

Origine: Guards! Guards!

“Never trust a species that grins all the time. It’s up to something.”

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Terry Pratchett libro Pyramids

Origine: Pyramids

“His movements could be called cat-like, except that he did not stop to spray urine up against things.”

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Terry Pratchett libro Night Watch

Origine: Night Watch