maskerade quotes

"The singers all loathe the sight of one another, the chorus despises the
singers, they both hate the orchestra, and everyone fears the conductor;
the staff on one prompt side won't talk to the staff on the opposite prompt
side, the dancers are all crazed from hunger in any case..."
(Maskerade)

"We're witches and we will pay our way by curing you of any irritating ailments you have."
"I don't have any."
"How many would you like?"
(Maskerade)

'Now what?' it said.
IT'S UP TO YOU. IT'S ALWAYS UP TO YOU.
(Maskerade)

After you'd known Christine for any length of time, you found yourself
fighting a desire to look into her ear to see if you could spot daylight
coming the other way.
(Maskerade)

'It's easy to hold everything in common when no one's got anything.'
(Maskerade)

Greebo could, in fact, commit sexual harrassment simply by sitting very
quietly in the next room.
(Maskerade)

'What's the first thing you'd take out of a burning house?'
'I reckon I'd take Greebo. 'Cos that shows I've got a warm and considerate nature.' - Gytha "Nanny" Ogg, a witch
'What would you like me to take, madam?' - Mr Salzella, a... no, I won't!
'The fire.' - Walter Plinge
'Who set fire to it?' - an undercover policeman
(Maskerade)

Looking into Granny's eyes was like looking into a mirror. What you saw looking back at you was yourself, and there was no hiding place.
(Maskerade)

It was done far more often than the audiences ever realized -- when singers
had a sore throat, or had completely dried, or had turned up so drunk they
could barely stand, or, in one notorious instance many years previously,
had died in the interval and subsequently sung their famous aria by means
of a broom-handle stuck up their back and their jaw operated with a piece
of string.
(Maskerade)

Most people in Lancre, as the saying goes, went to bed with the chickens
and got up with the cows. [footnote: Er. That is to say, they went to bed
at the same time as the chickens went to bed, and got up at the same time
as the cows got up. Loosely worded sayings can really cause
misunderstandings.]
(Maskerade)

Ahahahahaha! Ahahahaha! Aahahaha!
BEWARE!!!!!
Yrs sincerely
The Opera Ghost
(Maskerade)

'It's still a lie. Like the lie about masks.'
'What lie about masks?'
'The way people say they hide faces.'
'They do hide faces,' said Nanny Ogg.
'Only the one on the outside.'
(Maskerade)

He counted to one on his fingers. Then he counted to two.
(Maskerade)

Nanny could get a statue to cry on her shoulder and say what it really
thought about pigeons.
(Maskerade)

It's easy to hold everything in common when no-one's got anything.
(Maskerade)

It is the fate of all banisters worth sliding down that there is something
nasty waiting at the far end.
(Maskerade)

The pre-luncheon drinks were going quite well, Mr Bucket thought. Everyone
was making polite conversation and absolutely no one had been killed up to
the present moment.
(Maskerade)

Nanny Ogg found herself embarrassed to even think about this, and this was
unusual because embarrassment normally came as naturally to Nanny as
altruism comes to a cat.
(Maskerade)

...he'd moved like music, like someone dancing to a rhythm inside his head. And his face for a moment in the moonlight was the skull of an angel...
(Maskerade)

People who didn't need people needed people around to know that they were
the kind of people who didn't need people.
(Maskerade)