(About sweeping)… What he was in FACT doing was moving the dirt around with a broom, to give it a change of… — 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
It is at this point that normal language gives up, and goes and has a drink. — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
He says gods like to see an atheist around. Gives them something to aim at. — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
I MAY HAVE ALLOWED MYSELF SOME FLICKER OF EMOTION IN THE RECENT PAST, said Death, BUT I CAN GIVE IT UP ANY… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“Charity ain't giving people what you wants to give, it's giving people what they need to get.” — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
...William wondered why he always disliked people who said 'no offense meant.' Maybe it was because they found it easier to to… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Magrat had used a lot of powder to make her face pale and interesting. It combined with the lavishly applied mascara to… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
They always gives me bath salts," complained Nobby. "And bath soap and bubble bath and herbal bath lumps and tons of bath… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
After all, when you seek advice from someone it's certainly not because you want them to give it. You just want them… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
I get it,' said the prisoner. 'Good Cop, Bad Cop, eh?' If you like.' said Vimes. 'But we're a bit short staffed… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
What’s this here,” he said suspiciously, “about us got to give you faggots?” Oh, we have to have them,” said Newt, “We… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
The phrase "may you live in interesting times" is the lowest in a trilogy of Chinese curses that continue "may you come… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Demons were like genies or philosophy professors - if you didn't word things exactly right, they delighted in giving you absolutely accurate… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
The storm was really giving it everything it had. This was its big chance. It had spent years hanging around the provinces,… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Anyway, it's like with bikes,' said the first speaker authoritatively. 'I thought I was going to get this bike with seven gears… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Look at Satan. Created as an angel, grows up to be the Great Adversary. Hey, if you’re going to go on about… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Fantasy doesn't have to be fantastic. American writers in particular find this much harder to grasp. You need to have your feet… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Most species do their own evolving, making it up as they go along, which is the way Nature intended. And this is… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
I saved a man's life once," said Granny. "Special medicine, twice a day. Boiled water with a bit of berry juice in… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
But…but you can’t treat religion as a sort of buffet, can you? I mean, you can’t say yes please, I’ll have some… — 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
Bill Door was impressed. Miss Flitworth could actually give the word "revenue", which had two vowels and one diphthong, all the peremptoriness… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Most armies are in fact run by their sergeants - the officers are there just to give things a bit of tone… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
You can't go around building a better world for people. Only people can build a better world for people. Otherwise it's just… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Please give us a simple answer, so that we don't have to think, because if we think, we might find answers that… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Sometimes the crime follows the punishment, which only serves to prove the foresight of the Great God." "That's what my grandmother used… — 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
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