Getting an education was a bit like a communicable sexual disease. — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“The smug mask of virtue triumphant could be almost as horrible as the face of wickedness revealed.” — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“The barricade was taking some while to dismantle. Chair legs and planks and bedsteads and doors and baulks of timber had settled… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“Legitimate First watched them go as they walked away. Sergeant Colon felt he was being measured up. "I've always wondered about his… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
God moves in extremely mysterious, not to say, circuitous ways. God does not play dice with the universe; He plays an ineffable… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“Ah, I know that," said Tiffany, as the boat rocked on the swell. "Whales aren't dangerous, because they just eat very small… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“It was because he wanted there to be conspirators. It was much better to imagine men in some smoky room somewhere, made… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“Nanny Ogg gave this the same consideration as would a nuclear physicist who'd just been told that someone was banging two bits… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“Mr Vimes," said Mrs Winkings, "ve cannot help but notice that you still haf not employed any of our members in the… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Give anyone a lever long enough and they can change the world. It's unreliable levers that are the problem. — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“There had been a time when the continents were different, Rincewind understood, and then they'd sort of shuffled more comfortably together like… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“It's not gambling to play against someone who's no good. It's common sense.” — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“Two uniformed trolls were standing in front of Sergeant Colon's high desk, with a slightly smaller troll between them. This troll was… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
You can't find a hermit to teach you herming, because of course that rather spoils the whole thing. — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“Many things went on at Unseen University and, regrettably, teaching had to be one of them. The faculty had long ago confronted… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“In fact, the mere act of opening the box will determine the state of the cat, although in this case there were… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“Silk stockings. With garters . Well, they were out. There were a lot of things he'd do for Sybil, but if garters… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Fantasy is an exercise bicycle for the mind. It might not take you anywhere, but it tones up the muscles that can. — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
In ancient times cats were worshiped as gods; they have not forgotten this. — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
As they say in Discworld, we are trying to unravel the Mighty Infinite using a language which was designed to tell one… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Of course, Ankh-Morpork's citizens had always claimed that the river water was incredibly pure. Any water that had passed through so many… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
People who used magic without knowing what they were doing usually came to a sticky end. All over the entire room, sometimes. — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Multiple exclamation marks,' he went on, shaking his head, 'are a sure sign of a diseased mind. — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“This one’s mental.’ ‘Eccentric.’ ‘What’s the difference?’ ‘A bag of cash.” — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
A hardback's harder at Christmas time because that's a good hardback buying time. — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
