“Esk, of course, had not been trained, and it is well known that a vital ingredient of success is not knowing that… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“When he was a boy he'd read books about great military campaigns, and visited the museums and looked with patriotic pride at… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
The disc, being flat, has no real horizon. Any adventurous sailor who got funny ideas from staring at eggs and oranges for… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“You haven't heard of him? And he is a D'reg!" Mrs Goriff pulled at her husband's arm. "D'reg?" said Angua. "A warlike… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
'Discworld' is taking something that you know is ridiculous and treating it as if it is serious, to see if something interesting… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“...but William felt in his bones that you couldn't run a city on the basis of what the Watch liked. The Watch… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“Winder's mind felt even fuzzier than it had done over the past few years, but he was certain about cake. He'd been… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“A camel in distress isn’t a shy creature. It doesn’t hang around in bars, nursing a solitary drink. It doesn’t phone up… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“The horsemen came closer. Vimes was not good at horsemen. Something in him resented being addressed by anyone eight feet above the… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“It was funny how people were people everywhere you went, even if the people concerned weren't the people the people who made… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“We need to borrow your boat," said Vimes. "Bugger off!" "I'm choosing to believe that was a salty nautical expression meaning 'Why,… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“There are eight levels of wizardry on the Disc; after sixteen years Rincewind has failed to achieve even level one. In fact… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
The Yen Buddhists are the richest religious sect in the universe. They hold that the accumulation of money is a great evil… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“It wasn't by eliminating the impossible that you got at the truth, however improbable; it was by the much harder process of… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
There are no inconsistencies in the Discworld books; ocassionally, however, there are alternate pasts. — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“Young Sam at this point had tired of petticoat company and had drifted over to an elderly goblin man who was working… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
If you put a large switch in some cave somewhere, and a sign on it saying, "End-of-the-World Switch. PLEASE TO NOT TOUCH,"… — Joel Garreau Copy Share Image
“Just because someone's a member of an ethnic minority doesn't mean they're not a nasty small-minded little jerk.” — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
The Battle of Koom Valley is the only one known to history where both sides ambushed each other. — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
"There's a door," he whispered. "Where does it go?" "It stays where it is, I think," said Rincewind. — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“On the Kite, the situation was being 'workshopped'. This is the means by which people who don't know anything get together to… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“When new students tried an experiment that was particularly successful in terms of explosive force, the result was often a cross between… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
