History has a habit of changing the people who think they are changing it — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Most of the great triumphs and tragedies of history are caused not by people being fundamentally good or fundamentally evil, but by… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
People whose concept of ancient history is the first series of Star Trek may be treated with patience, because it's usually not… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“But…history was full of the bones of good men who’d followed bad orders in the hope that they could soften the blow.… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
People don't alter history any more than birds alter the sky, they just make brief patterns in it. — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“where actual evidence had been a bit sparse he had, in the best traditions of the keen ethnic historian, inferred from revealed… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
If you are going to write, say, fantasy - stop reading fantasy. You've already read too much. Read other things; read westerns,… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“It takes a long time for people like Vorbis to die. They leave echoes in history.” — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“History has to be observed. Otherwise it’s not history. It’s just … well, things happening one after another.” — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“*The disc's greatest lovers were undoubtedly Mellius and Gretelina, whose pure, passionate and soul-searing affair would have scorched the pages of History… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“It wasn’t a bang or a boom. It was the dampest, most corpulent eruption in the history of terminal flatulence.” — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“it is well known that a vital ingredient of success is not knowing that what you’re attempting can’t be done. A person… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
It was, according to the history books, the fastest coronation since Bubric the Saxon crowned himself with a very pointy crown on… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“According to the history books, the decisive battle that ended the Ankh-Morpork Civil War was fought between two handfuls of bone-weary men… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“It would be a very accurate historian who could pinpoint the precise day when the Japanese changed from being fiendish automatons who… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
It was possibly the most circumspect advance in the history of military maneuvers, right down at the bottom end of the scale… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“Bill Door had carefully ensured a local reputation as the worst bowman in the entire history of toxophily; it had never occurred… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“What is normal? Normal is yesterday and last week and last month taken together” — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
I read anything that’s going to be interesting. But you don’t know what it is until you’ve read it. Somewhere in a… — 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
The truth isn't easily pinned to a page. In the bathtub of history the truth is harder to hold than the soap… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“Once you were in the hands of a Grand Vizier, you were dead. Grand Viziers were always scheming megalomaniacs. It was probably… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“Things just happen, one after another. They don't care who knows. But history ... ah, history is different. History has to be… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
History always has a few tricks up its frayed sleeve. It's been around a long time. — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Oh, my dear Vimes, history changes all the time. It is constantly being re-examined and re-evaluated, otherwise how would we be able… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
History, contrary to popular theories, is kings and dates and battles. — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“It was destined to be the most impressive kiss in the history of foreplay. The kiss lasted more than fifteen years. Not… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Around it are those countries which, according to History, constitute the civilised world ie, a world that can support historians — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
History isn't like that. History unravels gently, like an old sweater. It has been patched and darned many times, reknitted to suit… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Now that their long war was over, they could get on with the proper concern of all civilised nations, which is to… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“It is well known that a vital ingredient of success is not knowing that what you're attempting can't be done. A person… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“Not for the first time in the history of the universe, someone for whom communication normally came as effortlessly as a dream… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“Mort thought that history was thrashing around like a steel hawser with the tension off, twanging backwards and forwards across reality in… — 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
Actors, said Granny, witheringly. As if the world weren't full of enough history without inventing more. — 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
