Too much magic could wrap time and space around itself, and that wasn't good news for the kind of person who had… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
That's what's so stupid about the whole magic thing, you know. You spend twenty years learning the spell that makes nude virgins… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
This looks like a job for inadvisably applied magic if ever I saw one. — 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
“It took place in the midnight in the University's Great Hall, in a welter of incense, candlesticks, runic inscriptions and magic circles,… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
The senior wizard in a world of magic had the same prospects of long-term employment as a pogo stick tester in a… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“Real magic is the hand around the bandsaw, the thrown spark in the powder keg, the dimension-warp linking you straight into the… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Perhaps the magic would last, perhaps it wouldn't. But then again, what does? — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
They think written words are even more powerful,’ whispered the toad. ‘They think all writing is magic. Words worry them. See their… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
There are thousands of good reasons why magic doesn't rule the world. They're called Witches and Wizards. — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
I think when people mean that Discworld books have become darker they really mean the series is growing up. In 'The Colour… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
It was octarine, the colour of magic. It was alive and glowing and vibrant and it was the undisputed pigment of the… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Unseen University was much bigger on the inside. Thousands of years as the leading establishment of practical magic in a world where… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
That's one form of magic, of course." "What, just knowing things?" "Knowing things that other people don't know. — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
And that's what I don't like about magic, Captain. 'cos it's *magic*. You can't ask questions, it's magic. It doesn't explain anything,… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Ninety percent of most magic merely consists of knowing one extra fact. — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
What is magic? There is the wizard's explanation... wizards talk about candles, circles, planets, stars, bananas, chants, runes and the importance of… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
This time it had been magic. And it didn't stop being magic just because you found out how it was done. — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
It's an old magical principle - it's even filtered down into RPG systems - that magic, while taking a lot of effort,… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“Tiffany got up early and lit the fires. When her mother came down, she was scrubbing the kitchen floor, very hard. “Er…aren’t… — 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
