Quotes of: Prophecy Keyword

Hell may have all the best composers, but heaven has all the best choreographers.

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

Never trust a woman who gives funny names to means of transport.

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

Indeed the three prophecies about the death of individual art are, in their different ways, those of Hegel, Marx, and Freud. I don't see any way of getting beyond those prophecies.

Harold Bloom

We were young, and we had no need for prophecies. Just living was itself an act of prophecy.

The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle

He'd been an angel once. He hadn't meant to Fall. He'd just hung around with the wrong people.

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

Loyalty was a great thing, but no lieutenants should be forced to choose between their leader and a circus with elephants.

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

It has been said that civilization is twenty-four hours and two meals away from barbarism.

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

DON'T THINK OF IT AS DYING, said Death. JUST THINK OF IT AS LEAVING EARLY TO AVOID THE RUSH.

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

He looked up at them, a scruffy Napoleon with his laces trailing, exiled to a rose-trellised Elba.

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

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

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

And then he'd tried to become an official Atheist and hadn't got the rock-hard self-satisfied strength of belief even for that.

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

Why are we talking about this good and evil? They're just names for sides. We know that.

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

God does not play games with His loyal servants", said the Metatron, but in a worried tone of voice. "Whoopee", said Crowley.

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

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

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

Heaven has no taste." "Now-" "And not one single sushi restaurant." A look of pain crossed the angel's suddenly very serious face.

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

You couldn't get a decent drink in either of them, for a start. And the boredom you got in Heaven was almost as bad as the excitement you got in Hell.

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

I don't see what's so triffic about creating people as people and then gettin' upset 'cos they act like people.

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

He wondered reflectively what would happen if you asked a nun where the Gents was. Probably the Pope sent you a sharp note or something.

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

Sister Mary chose that moment to come in with the tea. Satanist or not, she'd also found a plate and arranged some iced biscuits on it.

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

The English, by and large, being a crass and indolent race, were not as keen on burning women as other countries in Europe.

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

Pessimism becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy; it reproduces itself by crippling our willingness to act.

You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train: A Personal History of Our Times