Hi everyone! I hope you’re well. It’s Wednesday, and once again, it’s time for the Wednesday Weekly Blogging Challenge hosted by Long and Short Reviews. If you’d like to participate in the challenge, you can check out the list of topics for this year here. You can see what other people said about today’s topic here.
Book Quotes that Make Me Laugh
I haven’t got a memory like a steal trap, and most of the quotes I thought of were only partially remembered, so for this post, I went flipping through some of my favourite books to find the highlighted and underlined complete and correct quotes.
A Quote from the Brilliant The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams:
“The ships hung in the sky in much the same way that bricks don’t.”
A Quote from The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde I like is:
“The dress looked like it had been sown in a rage and put on in a tempest.”
The following few quotes are from one of my favourite books ever: The Hogfather by Terry Pratchett.
The passage below reveals a bit about one of the central characters, Susan Sto-Helit, Death’s granddaughter.
“She’d become a governess. It was one of the few jobs a known lady could do. And she’d taken to it well. She’dsworn that if she did indeed ever find herself dancing on rooftops with chimney sweeps she’d beat herself to death with her own umbrella.”
At one point, Susan says the following to one of the children she looks after, and it helps to showcase the kind of humour that is laced throughout the pages of this book. It’s quite an acerbic statement. Terry Pratchett certainly had a way with words.
“Real children do not go hoppity skip unless they are on drugs.”
This final quote from The Hogfather could not be more accurate, and it comes when Susan is reading the children a story, inventing her own version as she goes.
“And then Jack chopped down what was the world’s last beanstalk, adding murder and ecological terrorism to the theft, enticement, and trespass charges already mentioned, and all the giant’s children didn’t have a daddy anymore. But he got away with it and lived happily ever after, without so much as a guilty twinge about what he had done…which proves that you can be excused for just about anything if you are a hero, because no one asks inconvenient questions.”
As always, thank you for spending your time here with me today.
Until next time,
George
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GEORGE L THOMAS 
Funny stuff!
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I see we both went right for the Douglas Adams today! 😀 The only thing I’ve read by Terry Pratchett so far is Good Omens, I really need to delve more into his stuff!
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Aw, they’re great writers! Ifind both authors have a very similar sense of humour.
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They are! And I read somewhere that they were friends, which would make complete sense if true.
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Yes! Absolutely!
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This is BRILLIANT!!!! You have an excellent sense of humour, and thank you for giving me some giggles to start my day! I enjoyed the humour in Good Omens, and based on subsequent attempts to read Neil Gaiman, I suspect Terry Pratchett was responsible for a good proportion of it. But I’ve not read any of his books because there are so very many of them, I don’t do well committing to series, I don’t know where to start, and I don’t know which (if any) would appeal to me as I’m not that big on sci-fi or fantasy unless it’s light. Do you have any suggestions as to either a book that would work on its own that’s funny or where to start? Any that don’t require a huge amount of effort to build a mental map of a whole new world/society? Thanks for this!
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I’m glad to be of service! My first Terry Pratchett book was The Colour of Magic. It’s the first in the Discworld series and basically sets everything up. It’s about an incompetent wizard called Rincewind who is hired to show a visiting insurance clerk around town. It’s very funny, and Pratchett’s brilliant personality comes clean through.
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I often kick myself because I didn’t buy up early editions of all the Pratchett books when they were new, so I’ve never read “The Hogfather.” I’m looking for it!
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I know what you mean, Priscilla!
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Hi George,
I really enjoyed this post! Your selection of book quotes that make you laugh is such a fun idea. It’s amazing how certain lines from books can bring so much humor and joy, even long after we’ve read them. Thanks for sharing these memorable quotes—it’s always nice to be reminded of the lighter side of literature!
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