Men Quotes by Terry Pratchett

Do you not know that a man is not dead while his name is still spoken?

— Terry Pratchett

What can the harvest hope for, if not for the care of the Reaper Man?

— Terry Pratchett

A good man will kill you with hardly a word.

— Terry Pratchett

Shoes, men, coffins; never accept the first one you see.

— Terry Pratchett

No. Men should die for lies. But the truth is too precious to die for.

— Terry Pratchett

If women were as good as men they'd be a lot better!

— Terry Pratchett

The jurisdiction of a good man extends to the end of the world.

— Terry Pratchett

They obeyed, as wise men do when a woman puts her foot down . . .

— Terry Pratchett

Tell someone you are going to rob them and all that will happen is that you'll get a reputation as a truthful…

— Terry Pratchett

Well, it would have to be “The Man Who Was Thursday.” It’s a damn good read that I believe should be read…

— Terry Pratchett

...the little man's total obliviousness to all forms of danger somehow made danger so discouraged that it gave up and went away.

— Terry Pratchett

You had to hand it to the Patrician, he admitted grudgingly. If you didn't, he sent men to come and take it…

— Terry Pratchett

Creators aren't gods. They make places, which is quite hard. It's men that make gods. This explains a lot.

— Terry Pratchett

Nac Mac Feegle! The Wee Free Men! Nae king! Nae quin! Nae laird! Nae master! We willna' be fooled again!

— Terry Pratchett

It takes forty men with their feet on the ground to keep one man with his head in the air.

— Terry Pratchett

They looked at one another in incomprehension, two minds driving opposite ways up a narrow street and waiting for the other man…

— Terry Pratchett

That was the very centre of his genius - he invented things that anyone could have thought of, and men who can…

— Terry Pratchett

I must have read every issue of 'Punch' published in the 20th century, and I think in the process I picked up…

— Terry Pratchett

There are hardly any excesses of the most crazed psychopath that cannot easily be duplicated by a normal kindly family man who…

— Terry Pratchett

WHO KNOWS WHAT EVIL LURKS IN THE HEART OF MEN? The Death of Rats looked up from the feast of the potato.…

— Terry Pratchett

I don't want unnecessary violence, sergeant," said Blouse. "Right you are, sir!" said the sergeant. "Carborundum! First man comes through that door…

— Terry Pratchett

Probably the last man who knew how it worked had been tortured to death years before. Or as soon as it was…

— Terry Pratchett

Putting up a statue to someone who tried to stop a war is not very, um, statuesque. Of course, if you had…

— Terry Pratchett

It's never a good idea to ask a man on a tight-rope how he keeps his balance: a) he would probably fall…

— Terry Pratchett

ALL THINGS THAT ARE, ARE OURS. BUT WE MUST CARE. FOR IF WE DO NOT CARE, WE DO NOT EXIST. IF WE…

— Terry Pratchett

Any sensible ruler would have killed off Leonard, and Lord Vetinari was extremely sensible and often wondered why he had not done…

— Terry Pratchett

They may be called the Palace Guard, the City Guard, or the Patrol. Whatever the name, their purpose in any work of…

— Terry Pratchett

Rincewind shivered. He was not, of course, an atheist; on the Disc the gods dealt severely with atheists. On the few occasions…

— Terry Pratchett

Sometimes I think a man could wander across the disc all his life and not see everything there is to see,' said…

— Terry Pratchett

In my early teens, I read every bound volume of the magazine Punch. Every writer of any distinction in the English language,…

— Terry Pratchett

You are very clever,' said the old man shyly. 'I would like to eat your brains, one day,' For some reason the…

— Terry Pratchett

Dogs are not like cats, who amusingly tolerate humans only until someone comes up with a tin opener that can be operated…

— Terry Pratchett

It's a terrible thing for a man when his woman gangs up on him wi' a toad

— Terry Pratchett

Man just went past with a cat on his head,

— Terry Pratchett

When a man is tired of Ankh-Morpork, he is tired of ankle-deep slurry.

— Terry Pratchett

Do not act incautiously when confronting a little bald wrinkly smiling man!

— Terry Pratchett

Stand before your god, bow before your king, kneel before your man.

— Terry Pratchett

Speak softly and employ a huge man with a crowbar.

— Terry Pratchett

And sin, young man, is when you treat people like things.

— Terry Pratchett

Stupid men are often capable of things the clever would not dare to contemplate...

— Terry Pratchett