If you kept changing the way people saw the world, you ended up changing the way you saw yourself. — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
And then you bit onto them, and learned once again that Cut-me-own-Throat Dibbler could find a use for bits of an animal… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Belief is one of the most powerful organic forces in the multiverse. It may not be able to move mountains, exactly. But… — 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
And the people next door oppress me all night long. I tell them, I work all day, a man's got to have… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Some people think this is paranoia, but it isn't. Paranoids only think everyone is out to get them. Wizards know it. — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“The gods of the Disc have never bothered much about judging the souls of the dead, and so people only go to… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Sometimes I feel that the world is made up of sensible people who know the plot and bloody idiots who don't. — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Classically, very few people have considered that cleanliness is next to godliness. A rank loincloth and hair in an advanced state of… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
People were people, even if they had four legs and had called themselves names like Dangerous Beans, which is the kind of… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
And at the other end of the bar the world is full of the other type of person, who has a broken… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
You are very clever,' said the old man shyly. 'I would like to eat your brains, one day,' For some reason the… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Everyone's heard of Erwin Schrodinger's famous thought experiment. You put a cat in a box with a bottle of poison, which many… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Gods don't like people not doing much work. People who aren't busy all the time might start to think. — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Everybody thinks the Government should be doing more about everything but just think how many of the bonuses which are quite rightly… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
You can't make people happy by law. If you said to a bunch of average people two hundred years ago "Would you… — 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
People who are rather more than six feet tall and nearly as broad across the shoulders often have uneventful journeys. People jump… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
My experience in Amsterdam is that cyclists ride where the hell they like and aim in a state of rage at all… — 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
I'm not really good at fun-to-know, human interest stuff. We're not 'celebrities', whose life itself is a performance. Good or bad or… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Anyway, if you stop tellin' people it's all sorted out afer they're dead, they might try sorting it all out while they're… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
I should have learned this, she thought. I wanted to learn fire, and pain, but I should have learned people. — 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