17 Quotes from Night Watch book by Terry Pratchett
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Night Watch Quotes
We used to think time was like a river, you could row up and down and come back to the same place. Then we found it acted like a sea, so you could go from side to side as well. Then it turned out to be like a ball of water; you could go up and down, too. Currently we think it’s like ... oh, lots of spaces, all rolled up. And then there are time jumps, and time slips, and humans mess it up, too, wasting it and gaining it. And then there’s quantum, of course. - Night Watch book by Terry Pratchett -
Here’s some advice, boy. Don’t put your trust in revolutions. They always come around again. That’s why they’re called revolutions. People die, and nothing changes. - Night Watch book by Terry Pratchett -
Two types of people laugh at the law; those that break it and those that make it. - Night Watch book by Terry Pratchett -
You know what coppers are like. You look at ’em in a funny way, and the buggers’ll fit you up for every crime in the book. Terrible, what they can pin on an honest man, haha. - Night Watch book by Terry Pratchett -
I’m a crook. And the best part is, it’s even easier to be a crook when no one knows you’re a crook, haha. - Night Watch book by Terry Pratchett -
Is there no such thing as an accident? Is every accident just a higher-order design? I’d love to find out! - Night Watch book by Terry Pratchett -
The thing about rooting out plots and spies everywhere is that, even if there are no real plots to begin with, there are plots and spies galore very soon. - Night Watch book by Terry Pratchett -
Listen. A copper doesn’t keep flapping his lip. He doesn’t let on what he knows. He doesn’t say what he’s thinking. No. He watches and listens and he learns and he bides his time. His mind works like mad but his face is a blank. Until he’s ready. - Night Watch book by Terry Pratchett -
Mums are mums. They don’t like to see men managing by themselves, in case that sort of thing catches on. - Night Watch book by Terry Pratchett -
Let this be a lesson, lad. There aren’t any rules. Not when there’s knives out. You take him down, quietly if possible, without hurting him much, if possible, but you take him down. He comes at you with a knife, your bring your stick down on his arm. He comes at you with his hands, you use your knee or your boot or your helmet. Your job is to keep the peace. You make it peaceful as quickly as you can. - Night Watch book by Terry Pratchett -
We who think we are about to die will laugh at anything. - Night Watch book by Terry Pratchett -
Ninety percent of most magic merely consists of knowing one extra fact. - Night Watch book by Terry Pratchett -
In a world where we all move in curves he proceeds in a straight line. And going straight in a world of curves makes things happen. - Night Watch book by Terry Pratchett -
I’ve met a few incorruptible men. They tend to die horrible deaths. - Night Watch book by Terry Pratchett -
The world does not deal well with those who don’t pick a side. - Night Watch book by Terry Pratchett -
You’re walking around, with a weapon you don’t know how to use. That’s worse than walking around knowing how to use a weapon and not having one. A man with a weapon he doesn’t know how to use is likely to have it shoved where the sun does not shine. - Night Watch book by Terry Pratchett -
Trouble is always easy to find when you have enough people looking for it. - Night Watch book by Terry Pratchett -