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

by Terry Pratchett

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.

People couldn’t become truly holy, he said, unless they also had the opportunity to be definitively wicked.

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

“Come on,” he said. “Let’s do the Ritz.”

Remember, Warlock, as you walk your way through the highways and byways of life’s rich and fulsome path, to have love and reverence for all living things.” “Nanny says that wivving fings is fit onwy to be gwound under my heels, Mr. Fwancis,” said

In the background Crowley and Aziraphale met on the tops of buses, and in art galleries, and at concerts, compared notes, and smiled. When Warlock was six, his nanny left, taking Rover with her; the gardener handed in his resignation on the same day. Neither of them left with quite the same spring in their step with which they’d arrived.

IT IS SAID THAT THE DEVIL HAS ALL THE BEST TUNES. This is broadly true. But Heaven has the best choreographers.

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

“You’ve hit someone,” he said. “No I haven’t,” said Crowley. “Someone’s hit me.”

The world was bright and strange and he was in the middle of it.

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 tree full of monkeys on nitrous oxide.

Newt had always suspected that people who regularly used the word “community” were using it in a very specific sense that excluded him and everyone he knew.

There’s one thing you can say for air pollution, you get utterly amazing sunrises. It looked like someone had set fire to the sky.