World Quotes by Terry Pratchett

Given enough coffee I could rule the world

— Terry Pratchett

It's a god-eat-god world.

— Terry Pratchett

“Could they have the light without the darkness of this world?”

— Terry Pratchett

It's useful to go out of this world and see it from the perspective of another one.

— Terry Pratchett

“A lie can run round the world before the truth has got its boots on.”

— Terry Pratchett

If you were going to be successful in the world of crime, you needed a reputation for honesty.

— Terry Pratchett

There were two ways of looking at the world, but only one when you are starving.

— Terry Pratchett

If you kept changing the way people saw the world, you ended up changing the way you saw yourself.

— Terry Pratchett

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

— Terry Pratchett

“The world was bright and strange and he was in the middle of it.”

— Terry Pratchett

Ye ken, we've been robbin' and running aroound on all kinds o' worlds for a lang time, and I'll tell ye this:…

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Around it are those countries which, according to History, constitute the civilised world ie, a world that can support historians

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...no-one is finally dead until the ripples they cause in the world die away... The span of someone's life, they say, is…

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There are thousands of good reasons why magic doesn't rule the world. They're called Witches and Wizards.

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Imagination is only intelligence having fun. A healthy mind knows how to switch between worlds, and which one you need to eat…

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Never build a dungeon you wouldn't be happy to spend the night in yourself. The world would be a happier place if…

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Give anyone a lever long enough and they can change the world. It's unreliable levers that are the problem.

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Sometimes I feel that the world is made up of sensible people who know the plot and bloody idiots who don't.

— Terry Pratchett

They were small, brightly coloured, happy little creatures who secreted some of the nastiest toxins in the world, which is why the…

— Terry Pratchett

- I USHERED SOULS INTO THE NEXT WORLD. I WAS THE GRAVE OF ALL HOPE. I WAS THE ULTIMATE REALITY. I WAS…

— 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

All he knew was that you couldn't hope to try for the big stuff, like world peace and happiness, but you might…

— Terry Pratchett

Some humans would do anything to see if it was possible to do it. If you put a large switch in some…

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The Four Horsemen whose Ride presages the end of the world are known to be Death, War, Famine, and Pestilence. But even…

— Terry Pratchett

Right!" "Right!" "You can get there!" "I can get there!" "You're a natural at counting to two!" "I'm a nat'ral at counting…

— Terry Pratchett

The disc, being flat, has no real horizon. Any adventurous sailor who got funny ideas from staring at eggs and oranges for…

— Terry Pratchett

Humans had built a world inside the world, which reflected it in pretty much the same way as a drop of water…

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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

Unseen University was much bigger on the inside. Thousands of years as the leading establishment of practical magic in a world where…

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

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Dwarfs were not a naturally religious species, but in a world where pit props could crack without warning and pockets of fire…

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Granny Weatherwax was often angry. She considered it one of her strong points. Genuine anger was one of the world's greatest creative…

— Terry Pratchett

Fantasy is escapism, but wait... Why is this wrong? What are you escaping from, and where are you escaping to? Is the…

— Terry Pratchett

“at least nine-tenths of all the original reality ever created lies outside the multiverse, and since the multiverse by definition includes absolutely…

— Terry Pratchett

Its useful to go out of this world and see it from the perspective of another one.

— Terry Pratchett

They'd smash up the world if they thought it would make a pretty noise.

— Terry Pratchett

In the world I live in, 'not worse' is nearly as good as 'better'.

— Terry Pratchett

As large as worlds. As old as Time. As patient as a brick.

— Terry Pratchett

Omens are everywhere in this world you just have to find the one that fits.

— Terry Pratchett

Maybe the best comics are written by people who really are at ease in the comic world.

— Terry Pratchett