People Quotes by Terry Pratchett

Sometimes the only thing you could do for people was to be there.

— Terry Pratchett

There are some people who hate my guts. But that goes with the territory.

— Terry Pratchett

“You Say To People 'Throw Off Your Chains' And They Make New Chains For Themselves?”

— Terry Pratchett

What was the point of education, he thought, if people went out afterward and used it?

— Terry Pratchett

People think that stories are shaped by people. In fact, it's the other way around.

— Terry Pratchett

Other people salted away money for their old age, but Nanny preferred to accumulate memories.

— Terry Pratchett

You get all sorts of people in the library, and the librarian gets it all.

— Terry Pratchett

The universe was bad enough without people poking it.

— Terry Pratchett

The power of prayer and faith can heal and bring happiness. The real tragedy is that the people that are helped by…

— Terry Pratchett

The people who really run organizations are usually found several levels down, where it is still possible to get things done.

— Terry Pratchett

“I happen to be one of those people whose memory shuts down under pressure. The answers would come to me in the…

— Terry Pratchett

Were you proposing to shoot these people in cold blood, sergeant?" "Nossir. Just a warning shot inna head, sir.

— Terry Pratchett

I do not, in fact, use many puns. Certainly there are far fewer than people believe. But I suspect the ones I…

— Terry Pratchett

“It has been estimated that there are only about five hundred real people on any given planet, which is why they keep…

— Terry Pratchett

If cats looked like frogs we'd realize what nasty, cruel little bastards they are. Style. That's what people remember.

— Terry Pratchett

Most of the great triumphs and tragedies of history are caused not by people being fundamentally good or fundamentally evil, but by…

— Terry Pratchett

It seems that when you have cancer you are a brave battler against the disease, but when you have Alzheimer's you are…

— Terry Pratchett

And so the children of the revolution were faced with the age-old problem: it wasn't that you had the wrong kind of…

— Terry Pratchett

The thing is, 'Discworld' had been going on for a very long time, and I've written children's books as well. Usually when…

— Terry Pratchett

You say that you people don’t burn folk and sacrifice people anymore, but that’s what true faith would mean, y’see? Sacrificin’ your…

— Terry Pratchett

“She was not, herself, hugely in favor of motherhood in general. Obviously it was necessary, but it wasn't exactly difficult . Even…

— Terry Pratchett

Most people who have found that they are more intelligent than most around them, have yet to learn that one of the…

— Terry Pratchett

But the helmet had gold decoration, and the bespoke armorers had made a new gleaming breastplate with useless gold ornamentation on it.…

— Terry Pratchett

A witch who is bored might do ANYTHING. People said things like 'we had to make our own amusements in those days'…

— Terry Pratchett

We're dealing here," said Vimes, "With a twisted mind." "Oh, no! You think so?" "Yes." "But... no... you can't be right. Because…

— Terry Pratchett

Well, the traveling teachers do come through every few months," said the Baron. "Yes, sir, I know, sir, and they're useless, sir.…

— Terry Pratchett

There are, it has been said, two types of people in the world. There are those who, when presented with a glass…

— Terry Pratchett

Before you can kill a demon, you have to be able to say it's name. Names have power. While the word Alzheimer's…

— Terry Pratchett

Polly felt questing eyes boring into her. She was embarrassed, of course. But not for the obvious reason. It was for the…

— Terry Pratchett

He'd noticed that sex bore some resemblance to cookery: it fascinated people, they sometimes bought books full of complicated recipes and interesting…

— Terry Pratchett

…We were born vampires." "I thought you became –" "— vampires by being bitten? Dear me, no. Oh, we can turn people…

— Terry Pratchett

Gnomes live ten times faster than humans. They're harder to see than a high-speed mouse. That's one reason why most humans hardly…

— Terry Pratchett

People needed to believe in gods, if only because it was so hard to believe in people.

— Terry Pratchett

The city's full of people who you just see around.

— Terry Pratchett

You can't inspire people with facts. They need a cause. They need a symbol.

— Terry Pratchett

The people who guard the rainbow don't like those who get in the way of the sun.

— Terry Pratchett

Two types of people laugh at the law: those that break it and those that make it.

— Terry Pratchett

People aren't just people, they are people surrounded by circumstances.

— Terry Pratchett

Vimes's lack of interest in other people's children was limitless.

— Terry Pratchett

The best research you can do is to talk to people.

— Terry Pratchett