There are, always and only, the bad people, but some of them are on opposite sides. — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Knowledge is dangerous, which is why governments often clamp down on people who can think thoughts above a certain caliber. — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
He'd been an angel once. He hadn't meant to Fall. He'd just hung around with the wrong people. — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Dedication: My thanks to the people who showed me that opera was stranger than I could imagine. I can best repay their… — 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
She was also, by the standards of other people, lost. She would not see it like that. She knew where she was,… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
People look down on stuff like geography and meteorology, and not only because they're standing on one and being soaked by the… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Some people are confident because they are fools. Leonard had the look of someone who was confident because, so far, he'd never… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Journalism makes you think fast. You have to speak to people in all walks of life. Especially local journalism. — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
I was a very keen reader of science fiction, and during the time I was going to libraries, it was good, written… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Contrary to popular belief and hope, people don't usually come running when they hear a scream. That's not how humans work. Humans… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Belief sloshes around in the firmament like lumps of clay spiralling into a potter's wheel. That's how gods get created, for example.… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
It as true that normal people couldn't hear Gaspode speak, because dogs don't speak. It's a well know fact. ... Besides, almost… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Wizards don't believe in gods in the same way that most people don't find it necessary to believe in, say, tables. They… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
People flock in, nevertheless, in search of answers to those questions only librarians are considered to be able to answer, such as… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
The people who really run organizations are usually found several levels down, where it is still possible to get things done. — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
That's the Ankh-Morpork instinct, Vimes thought. Run away, and then stop and see if anything interesting is going to happen to other… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
I do not, in fact, use many puns. Certainly there are far fewer than people believe. But I suspect the ones I… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
The people who guard the rainbow don't like those who get in the way of the sun. — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
A marriage is always made up of two people who are prepared to swear that only the other one snores. — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
[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 Copy Share Image
The Yen Buddhists are the richest religious sect in the universe. They hold that the accumulation of money is a great evil… — 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