No, what he didn't like about heroes was that they were usually suicidally gloomy when sober and homicidally insane when drunk.
Interpretation
This quote humorously critiques the dual nature of heroes, suggesting they often struggle with extreme emotions.
Terry Pratchett's quote highlights the paradoxical nature of heroes, portraying them as individuals who are often burdened with deep sorrow and despair when sober, yet can become dangerously irrational when intoxicated. This depiction invites reflection on the complexities of heroism, suggesting that those we see as heroic may wrestle with significant inner turmoil that contrasts sharply with the idealized image of courage and strength.
In practice
Using this quote in a speech about the complexities of public figures.
And then Jack chopped down what was the world's last beanstalk, adding murder and ecological terrorism to the theft, enticement, and trespass charges already mentioned, and all the giant's children didn't have a daddy anymore. But he got away with it and lived happily ever after, without so much as a guilty twinge about what he had done...which proves that you can be excused for just about anything if you are a hero, because no one asks inconvenient questions.
They've got something they do it with, I think it's called a mocracy, and it means everyone in the whole country can say who the new Tyrant is. One man ... one vet. ... Everyone has ... the vet. Except for women, of course. And children. And criminals. And slaves. And stupid people. And people of foreign extraction. And people disapproved of for, er, various reasons. And lots of other people. But everyone apart from them. It's a very enlightened civilization.
Geography is just physics slowed down, with a couple of trees stuck in it.
You can't trample infidels when you're a tortoise. I mean, all you could do is give them a meaningful look.
Any fool could be a witch with a runic knife, but it took skill to be one with an apple corer.
People look down on stuff like geography and meteorology, and not only because they're standing on one and being soaked by the other. They don't look quite like real science. But geography is only physics slowed down and with a few trees stuck on it, and meteorology is full of excitingly fashionable chaos and complexity. And summer isn't a time. It's a place as well. Summer is a moving creature and likes to go south for the winter.
If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise they'll kill you.
I don't believe in comedy as a TV genre - I think there's drama that is funny. Because beyond the laughs, there has to be cost, and there has to be heart.
There are certain sorts of jokes which have only to do with the substitution of the unexpected word in a familiar context. If you translated something into French and then had it translated back into English by somebody who didn't know the original, you'd lose what was funny.
You're a monster, Mr. Grinch._x000D_ _x000D_ Your heart's an empty hole._x000D_ _x000D_ Your brain is full of spiders,_x000D_ _x000D_ You've got garlic in your soul.
The secret to humor is surprise.
The way Calvin's brain is wired, you can almost hear the fuses blowing.
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