Top 6 Ankh Quotes - Quoted Daily

There's a saying that all roads lead to Ankh-Morpork. And it's wrong. All roads lead away from Ankh-Morpork, but sometimes people just walk along them the wrong way.

There's a saying that all roads lead to Ankh-Morpork. And it's wrong. All roads lead away from Ankh-Morpork, but sometimes people just walk along them the wrong way.

Terry Pratchett

Funny, People, Ankh

"The Compleat Ankh-Morpork". Book by Terry Pratchett, 2012.

Ankh-Morpork had dallied with many forms of government and had ended up with that form of democracy known as One Man, One Vote. The Patrician was the Man; he had the Vote.

Terry Pratchett

Men, Democracy, Ankh

Terry Pratchett (2012). “The Wit and Wisdom of Discworld”, p.38, Harper Collins

The point is that descriptive writing is very rarely entirely accurate and during the reign of Olaf Quimby II as Patrician of Ankh-Morpork some legislation was passed in a determined attempt to ?put a stop to this sort of thing and introduce some honest.

Terry Pratchett

Writing, Ankh, Reign

Terry Pratchett (2012). “The Wit and Wisdom of Discworld”, p.16, Harper Collins

Sometimes it is better to light a flamethrower than curse the darkness.

Terry Pratchett

Light, Darkness, Ankh

Terry Pratchett (2008). “Men At Arms: (Discworld Novel 15)”, p.291, Random House

And we don't often get any wading birds in the River Ankh, mainly because the pollution would eat their legs away and anyway, it's easier for them to walk on the surface.

Terry Pratchett

Rivers, Bird, Ankh