“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
“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
“She knew a cutting, incisive, withering and above all a self-evident answer existed. It was just that, to her extreme annoyance, she… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
The Chain Letter to the Ephebians. Forget Your Gods. Be Subjugated. Learn to Fear. Do not break the chain -- the last… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“I'm not a natural killer ! See this? See what it says? I'm supposed to keep the peace, I am! If I… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“Vimes woke in damp and utter darkness with sand under his cheek. Some parts of his body reported for duty, others protested… — 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