Made Quotes by Terry Pratchett

My idea of a good novel was one you made enough money out of to buy a greenhouse.

— Terry Pratchett

I don’t think it's weak to admit you made a mistake. That takes strength, if you ask me.

— Terry Pratchett

There have been better attempts at marching, and they have been made by penguins.

— Terry Pratchett

Imagination, not intelligence, made us human.

— Terry Pratchett

These people were not only cheering, they were throwing flowers and hats. The hats were made of stone, but the thought was…

— Terry Pratchett

No more words. We know them all, all the words that should not be said. But you have made my world more…

— Terry Pratchett

Mort was already aware that love made you feel hot and cold and cruel and weak, but he hadn't realized that it…

— Terry Pratchett

A marriage is always made up of two people who are prepared to swear that only the other one snores.

— Terry Pratchett

...the little man's total obliviousness to all forms of danger somehow made danger so discouraged that it gave up and went away.

— Terry Pratchett

Sometimes I feel that the world is made up of sensible people who know the plot and bloody idiots who don't.

— Terry Pratchett

Truthfully, without over-egging it, as I often do, the library and journalism, those things made me who I am.

— Terry Pratchett

Aziraphale. The Enemy, of course. But an enemy for six thousand years now, which made him a sort of friend.

— Terry Pratchett

It was also a room full of books and made of books. There was no actual furniture; this is to say, the…

— Terry Pratchett

He hated games they made the world look too simple. Chess, in particular, had always annoyed him. It was the dumb way…

— Terry Pratchett

Let's see, now... in HOGFATHER there are a number of stabbings, someone's killed by a man made of knives, someone's killed by…

— Terry Pratchett

Mum had done everything you need to educate a kid. She made me a kid who likes books and she told me…

— Terry Pratchett

Colon has always thought that heroes had some special kind of clockwork that made them go out and die famously for god,…

— Terry Pratchett

But the helmet had gold decoration, and the bespoke armorers had made a new gleaming breastplate with useless gold ornamentation on it.…

— Terry Pratchett

Time was something that largely happened to other people; he viewed it in the same way that people on the shore viewed…

— Terry Pratchett

People were stupid, sometimes. They thought the Library was a dangerous place because of all the magical books, which was true enough,…

— Terry Pratchett

They were indeed what was known as 'old money', which meant that it had been made so long ago that the black…

— Terry Pratchett

Rincewind shivered. He was not, of course, an atheist; on the Disc the gods dealt severely with atheists. On the few occasions…

— Terry Pratchett

And then there were cats, thought Dog. He'd surprised the huge ginger cat from next door and had attempted to reduce it…

— Terry Pratchett

Humans! They lived in a world where the grass continued to be green and the sun rose every day and flowers regularly…

— Terry Pratchett

In the Ramtops village where they dance the real Morris dance, for example, they believe that no-one is finally dead until the…

— Terry Pratchett

Sybil's female forebears had valiantly backed up their husbands as distant embassies were besieged, had given birth on a camel or in…

— Terry Pratchett

Dogs are not like cats, who amusingly tolerate humans only until someone comes up with a tin opener that can be operated…

— Terry Pratchett

[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

Getting an education was a bit like a communicable sexual disease. It made you unsuitable for a lot of jobs and then…

— Terry Pratchett

It was written in some holy book, apparently, so that made it okay, and probably compulsory.

— Terry Pratchett

Maybe the only significant difference between a really smart simulation and a human being was the noise they made when you punched…

— Terry Pratchett

One of the hardest lessons in young Sam's life had been finding out that the people in charge weren't in charge. It…

— Terry Pratchett

I read the 'Old Testament' all the way through when I was about 13 and was horrified. A few months afterwards I…

— Terry Pratchett

Any true wizard, faced with a sign like 'Do not open this door. Really. We mean it. We're not kidding. Opening this…

— Terry Pratchett