Men Quotes by Terry Pratchett

They obeyed, as wise men do when a woman puts her foot down . . .

— Terry Pratchett

It's a terrible thing for a man when his woman gangs up on him wi' a toad

— Terry Pratchett

A good man will kill you with hardly a word.

— Terry Pratchett

Shoes, men, coffins; never accept the first one you see.

— Terry Pratchett

No. Men should die for lies. But the truth is too precious to die for.

— Terry Pratchett

If women were as good as men they'd be a lot better!

— Terry Pratchett

The jurisdiction of a good man extends to the end of the world.

— Terry Pratchett

Do you not know that a man is not dead while his name is still spoken?

— Terry Pratchett

He’sh mad?’ ‘Sort of mad. But mad with lots of money.’ ‘Ah, then he can’t be mad. I’ve been around; if a…

— Terry Pratchett

SOONER OR LATER ALL MEN MUST DIE. EVERYTHING DIES IN THE END. I CAN BE ROBBED BUT NEVER DENIED, I TOLD MYSELF.…

— Terry Pratchett

You are very clever," said the old man shyly. "I would like to eat your brains, one day.

— Terry Pratchett

You had to hand it to the Patrician, he admitted grudgingly. If you didn't, he sent men to come and take it…

— Terry Pratchett

Creators aren't gods. They make places, which is quite hard. It's men that make gods. This explains a lot.

— Terry Pratchett

Nac Mac Feegle! The Wee Free Men! Nae king! Nae quin! Nae laird! Nae master! We willna' be fooled again!

— Terry Pratchett

It takes forty men with their feet on the ground to keep one man with his head in the air.

— Terry Pratchett

They looked at one another in incomprehension, two minds driving opposite ways up a narrow street and waiting for the other man…

— Terry Pratchett

William: "I'm sure we can all pull together, sir." Vetinari: "Oh, I do hope not. Pulling together is the aim of despotism…

— 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

I'm trying to have a moment o' existential dreed here, right? Crivens, it's a puir lookout if a man canna feel the…

— Terry Pratchett

Putting up a statue to someone who tried to stop a war is not very, um, statuesque. Of course, if you had…

— Terry Pratchett

It's never a good idea to ask a man on a tight-rope how he keeps his balance: a) he would probably fall…

— Terry Pratchett

Someone got killed up here… It was outside. A tall man. He had one leg longer’n the other. And a beard. He…

— Terry Pratchett

The consensus seemed to be that if really large numbers of men were sent to storm the mountain, then enough might survive…

— Terry Pratchett

Using a metaphor in front of a man as unimaginative as Ridcully was like a red flag to a bull, was like…

— Terry Pratchett

Sometimes I think a man could wander across the disc all his life and not see everything there is to see,' said…

— Terry Pratchett

In my early teens, I read every bound volume of the magazine Punch. Every writer of any distinction in the English language,…

— 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

Any sensible ruler would have killed off Leonard, and Lord Vetinari was extremely sensible and often wondered why he had not done…

— Terry Pratchett

They may be called the Palace Guard, the City Guard, or the Patrol. Whatever the name, their purpose in any work of…

— Terry Pratchett

ALL THINGS THAT ARE, ARE OURS. BUT WE MUST CARE. FOR IF WE DO NOT CARE, WE DO NOT EXIST. IF WE…

— Terry Pratchett

They've got something they do it with, I think it's called a mocracy, and it means everyone in the whole country can…

— Terry Pratchett

The merest accident of microgeography had meant that the first man to hear the voice of Om, and who gave Om his…

— Terry Pratchett

What can the harvest hope for, if not for the care of the Reaper Man?

— Terry Pratchett

And sin, young man, is when you treat people like things.

— Terry Pratchett

Stupid men are often capable of things the clever would not dare to contemplate...

— Terry Pratchett

Because no man wants to be a coward in front of a cheese.

— Terry Pratchett

When a man is tired of Ankh-Morpork, he is tired of ankle-deep slurry.

— Terry Pratchett

Do not act incautiously when confronting a little bald wrinkly smiling man!

— Terry Pratchett

Stand before your god, bow before your king, kneel before your man.

— Terry Pratchett

Speak softly and employ a huge man with a crowbar.

— Terry Pratchett