I have no use for people who have learned the limits of the possible. — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Maybe the best comics are written by people who really are at ease in the comic world. — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Never build a dungeon you wouldn't be happy to spend the night in yourself. The world would be a happier place if… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Always remember that the crowd that applauds your coronation is the same crowd that will applaud your beheading. People like a show. — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Were you proposing to shoot these people in cold blood, sergeant?" "Nossir. Just a warning shot inna head, sir. — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
I do not, in fact, use many puns. Certainly there are far fewer than people believe. But I suspect the ones I… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
If cats looked like frogs we'd realize what nasty, cruel little bastards they are. Style. That's what people remember. — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“It has been estimated that there are only about five hundred real people on any given planet, which is why they keep… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Most of the great triumphs and tragedies of history are caused not by people being fundamentally good or fundamentally evil, but by… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
He sighed. It had come to this. He was a responsible authority, and people could use terms like "core values" at him… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
If you trust in yourself. . .and believe in your dreams. . .and follow your star. . . you'll still get beaten… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
London was not designed for cars. Come to that, it wasn't designed for people. It just sort of happened. This created problems,… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
You had to deal every day with people who were foolish and lazy and untruthful and downright unpleasant, and you could certainly… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
There has been a lot of bad fantasy in the past - I'm by no means saying that all classic fantasy out… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
My experience in Amsterdam is that cyclists ride where the hell they like and aim in a state of rage at all… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
I think that sick people in Ankh-Morpork generally go to a vet. It's generally a better bet. There's more pressure on a… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
I think when people mean that Discworld books have become darker they really mean the series is growing up. In 'The Colour… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
...and the funny thing was that people who weren't entirely certain they were right always argued much louder than other people, as… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Down there - he said - are people who will follow any dragon, worship any god, ignore any inequity. All out of… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Whatever happens, they say afterwards, it must have been fate. People are always a little confused about this, as they are in… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
[Y]ou weren't born with a talent for witchcraft: it didn't come easily; you worked hard at it because you wanted it. You… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
They know that people need witches; they need the unofficial people who understand the difference between right and wrong, and when right… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Who knew what evil lurked in the hearts of men? A copper, that's who. (...)You saw how close men lived to the… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Little fussy Otto, in his red-lined black opera cloak with pockets for all his gear, his shiny black shoes, his carefully cut… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
The stories never said why she was wicked. It was enough to be an old woman, enough to be all alone, enough… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Veil, you see, if I vas to say something portentous like "zer dark eyes of zer mind" back home in Uberwald, zer… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
When people say "clearly" something that means there's a huge crack in their argument and they know things aren't clear at all. — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“Rincewind rather enjoyed times like this. They convinced him that he wasn’t mad because, if he was mad, that left no word… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
A marriage is always made up of two people who are prepared to swear that only the other one snores. — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
I wish that the people who sing about the deeds of heroes would think about the people who have to clear up… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
The power of prayer and faith can heal and bring happiness. The real tragedy is that the people that are helped by… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
The people who really run organizations are usually found several levels down, where it is still possible to get things done. — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“I happen to be one of those people whose memory shuts down under pressure. The answers would come to me in the… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Anyway, if you stop tellin' people it's all sorted out afer they're dead, they might try sorting it all out while they're… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
It was one of those problematic occasions with long silences, sporadic coughs, and people saying isolated things like, "Well, isn't this nice. — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
People don't alter history any more than birds alter the sky, they just make brief patterns in it. — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Dedication: My thanks to the people who showed me that opera was stranger than I could imagine. I can best repay their… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
She was already learning that if you ignore the rules people will, half the time, quietly rewrite them so that they don't… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“This one’s mental.’ ‘Eccentric.’ ‘What’s the difference?’ ‘A bag of cash.” — Terry Pratchett Copy Share
“But I did not return until half past four this morning and I distinctly remember stubbing my toe on the stairs. I am as… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share
“The universe contains any amount of horrible ways to be woken up, such as the noise of the mob breaking down the front door,… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share
“Someone broke from the scrum and, punching and kicking, staggered towards the Klatchian goal. "Isn't that man your butler?" said Ahmed. "Yes." "One of… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share
It's an interesting fact that fewer than 17 % of Real cats end their lives with the same name they started with. Much family… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share
Either dragons should exist completely or fail to exist at all, he felt. A dragon only half-existing was worse than the extremes. — Terry Pratchett Copy Share
“Magrat wondered what it was like, spending your whole life doing something you didn’t want to do. Like being dead, she considered, only worse,… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share
A hardback's harder at Christmas time because that's a good hardback buying time. — Terry Pratchett Copy Share
“There were more old people. The world was full of them,' said the wizard. 'Yes, I know. And now it's full of young people.… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share
“Hobson was big and heavyset, but not exactly fat; he was probably what you’d get if you shaved a bear.” — Terry Pratchett Copy Share
“There is a night that never comes to an end… The clock of the world turns under its own shadow. Midnight is a moving… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share
“You'd like Freedom, Truth, and Justice, wouldn't you, Comrade Sergeant?' said Reg encouragingly. 'I'd like a hard-boiled egg,' said Vimes, shaking the match out.… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share
“You are not apprehensive, are you? I can't detect no trace of fear none whatsoever Roomy cranium all possible videos of all possible outcomes… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share