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- Divers alarums and excursions', she read, uncertainly. 'That means lots of terrible happenings, said Magrat. 'You always put that in plays.' Alarums and what?', said…
- Nanny Ogg looked under her bed in case there was a man there. Well, you never knew your luck.
- Nanny Ogg knew how to start spelling 'banana', but didn't know how you stopped.
- Nanny Ogg never did any housework herself, but she was the cause of housework in other people.
- Nanny's philosophy of life was to do what seemed like a good idea at the time, and do it as hard as possible. It had…
- Other people salted away money for their old age, but Nanny preferred to accumulate memories.
- Well, basically there are two sorts of opera," said Nanny, who also had the true witch's ability to be confidently expert on the basis of…
- Walter Plinge said: "You know she asked me a very silly question Mrs Ogg! It was a silly question any fool knows the answer!" "Oh,…
- It wasn't that Nanny Ogg sang badly. It was just that she could hit notes which, when amplified by a tin bath half full of…
- I don't hold with paddlin' with the occult," said Granny firmly. "Once you start paddlin' with the occult you start believing in spirits, and when…
- It's daft, locking us up," said Nanny. "I'd have had us killed." "That's because you're basically good," said Magrat. "The good are innocent and create…
- Nanny Ogg could see the future in the froth on a beer mug. It invariably showed that she was going to enjoy a refreshing drink…
More Nannies Quotes
- Every time I think about changing a diaper, I run a little bit harder and a little bit faster to make sure… — Charles Barkley
- We've never had nannies. We've had great grandparents, great support from family, and the kids have been on every set: they've seen… — Andy Serkis
- She's French, so she's teaching them French, and their previous nanny was Spanish, so they're fluent in Spanish. — Gwyneth Paltrow
- One nanny said, "Feed a cold"; she was a neo-Keynesian. Another nanny said, "Starve a cold"; she was a monetarist. — Harold MacMillan
- Mrs. Pang was once a nanny for me, and she spoils me the way I imagined kindhearted women would spoil an orphan,… — Yiyun Li
- I had two children. I had a nanny to manage my kids. — Leslie Caron
- There's something therapeutic about nudity. Clothing is one of the external things about a character. Take away the Gucci or Levi's and… — Kevin Bacon
- I'd lose my mind if I heard my kid call the nanny Mommy — Toni Braxton
- People have nannies and big cars, and they want to go to Maui for Christmas. When there are those kind of stakes… — Amy Sherman-Palladino
- There is no defence for my actions which I sincerely regret. [on an affair with nanny Daisy Wright] — Jude Law
- Family holidays and weekends are really brightly colored memories, full of my mother and father, rather than our nannies and au pairs. — Olivia Williams
- If Singapore is a nanny state, then I am proud to have fostered one. — Lee Kuan Yew