Ligur Character Analysis in Good Omens

Ligur is a demon and a Duke of Hell. In addition to being almost evil enough to seem human, Crowley describes him as having a “fourteenth-century mind”—that is, he hasn’t come around to the realities of the modern world. He doesn’t have any concept of cars or cellphones, and like Hastur, he resents Crowley for having “gone native” (assimilated into the human world). “Below” (Hell) sends Ligur and Hastur to collect Crowley in the hours before Armageddon (the end of the world) is set to begin. But rather than allow this to happen, Crowley dissolves Ligur with a bucket of holy water.

Ligur Quotes in Good Omens

The Good Omens quotes below are all either spoken by Ligur or refer to Ligur. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:

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“I tied up every portable telephone system in Central London for forty-five minutes at lunchtime,” he said.

There was silence, except for the distant swishing of cars.

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What could he tell them? That twenty thousand people got bloody furious? That you could hear the arteries clanging shut all across the city? And that then they went back and took it out on their secretaries or traffic wardens or whatever, and they took it out on other people? In all kinds of vindictive little ways which, and here was the good bit, they thought up themselves.

Related Characters: Crowley/Crawly (speaker), Hastur, Ligur

Page Number and Citation: 16

Explanation and Analysis:

Now, as Crowley would be the first to protest, most demons weren’t deep down evil. In the great cosmic game they felt they occupied the same position as tax inspectors—doing an unpopular job, maybe, but essential to the overall operations of the whole thing. If it came to that, some angels weren’t paragons of virtue; Crowley had met one or two who, when it came to righteously smiting the ungodly, smote a good deal harder than was strictly necessary. On the whole, everyone had a job to do, and just did it.

Related Characters: Crowley/Crawly, Hastur, Ligur

Page Number and Citation: 232

Explanation and Analysis:

Ligur Quotes in Good Omens

The Good Omens quotes below are all either spoken by Ligur or refer to Ligur. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:

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“I tied up every portable telephone system in Central London for forty-five minutes at lunchtime,” he said.

There was silence, except for the distant swishing of cars.

[...]

What could he tell them? That twenty thousand people got bloody furious? That you could hear the arteries clanging shut all across the city? And that then they went back and took it out on their secretaries or traffic wardens or whatever, and they took it out on other people? In all kinds of vindictive little ways which, and here was the good bit, they thought up themselves.

Related Characters: Crowley/Crawly (speaker), Hastur, Ligur

Page Number and Citation: 16

Explanation and Analysis:

Now, as Crowley would be the first to protest, most demons weren’t deep down evil. In the great cosmic game they felt they occupied the same position as tax inspectors—doing an unpopular job, maybe, but essential to the overall operations of the whole thing. If it came to that, some angels weren’t paragons of virtue; Crowley had met one or two who, when it came to righteously smiting the ungodly, smote a good deal harder than was strictly necessary. On the whole, everyone had a job to do, and just did it.

Related Characters: Crowley/Crawly, Hastur, Ligur

Page Number and Citation: 232

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