BEST GOOD OMENS QUOTES

“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.”

“He had been a librarian for so many years that he had turned into a library himself: his skin was pale and faintly dusty, his hair was full of static electricity, and his eyes had the look of eyes that had seen far too many books and gotten stuck between the pages.”

“And fighting doesn’t help. Fighting causes the sort of damage that becomes too big to fix.”

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

“All tapes left in a car for more than a fortnight metamorphose into Best of Queen albums.”

“Love was like the wrong sort of glass. It glittered, or it shattered.”

“You don’t get angelic orders like that anymore; they tend to expect you to buy your own flaming swords these days. It’s inflation.”

“Death turns out to be an elderly couple, who greet the horsemen and the others with tea and sandwiches.”

“Hell wasn’t a major reservoir of evil, any more than Heaven, in Crowley’s opinion, was a fountain of goodness; they were just sides in the great cosmic chess game.”

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

“When you’re scared but really, really don’t want anyone to know you’re scared, it is sometimes helpful to walk very loudly.”

“It wasn’t the fastest shop in the world. It wasn’t the slowest. But it was the one that people entered and then forgot to leave.”

“People couldn’t become truly holy, he said, unless they also had the opportunity to be definitively wicked.” EID WISHES QUOTES IN ENGLISH

“Hell wasn’t a major reservoir of evil, any more than Heaven, in Crowley’s opinion, was a fountain of goodness; they were just sides in the great cosmic chess game.”

“He regarded Good and Evil not as opposed moral absolutes, but as eternal compliments.”

“It’s not the thing you fling, it’s the fling itself.”

“Some people think that’s the test of love; knowing how long you can spend in silence together.”

“I mean, what’s Thor was worried that a huge serpent would kill him at Ragnarok? And he went anyway, because despite what he says, he really cares about those humans.”

“I may not have morals, but I have standards.”

“He’d been wrong about Heaven, he realized. It wasn’t brick paving at all. It was infinite libraries, doors opening into other doors.”

“Humans! They lived in a world where the grass continued to be green and the sun rose every day and flowers regularly turned into fruit, and what impressed them? Weeping statues. And wine made out of water!”

“I was supposed to be under a six hundred year old curse that at a certain age would plunge me into an eternity of agonizing death at sea, and still I managed to go home and squeeze in a nineteenth-century literary education.”

“The best liars are always the ones who aren’t ‘lying’ at all.”

“There are only two ways a demon can climb up the hierarchy ladder: greatness and glorious failure.”

“God does not play dice with the universe; He plays an ineffable game of His own devising, which might be compared, from the perspective of any of the other players, [i.e., everybody.] to being involved in an obscure and complex version of poker in a pitch-dark room, with blank cards, for infinite stakes, with a Dealer who won’t tell you the rules, and who smiles all the time.”