Species Quotes by Terry Pratchett

Most species do their own evolving, making it up as they go along, which is the way Nature intended.

— Terry Pratchett

Never trust a species that grins all the time. It’s up to something.

— Terry Pratchett

As a species, we are forever sticking our finger into the electric socket of the universe to see what will happen next.

— Terry Pratchett

The Auditors fluttered anxiously. And, as always happens in their species when something goes radically wrong and needs fixing instantly, they settled…

— Terry Pratchett

You do know you could find yourself charged with being a dominant species while under the influence of impulse-driven consumerism, don't you?

— Terry Pratchett

The students were staring at her in the manner of those who have heard of the species 'female' but have never expected…

— 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

ASTONISHING, said Death. REALLY ASTONISHING. LET ME PUT FORWARD ANOTHER SUGGESTION: THAT YOU ARE NOTHING MORE THAN A LUCKY SPECIES OF APE…

— Terry Pratchett

Most species do their own evolving, making it up as they go along, which is the way Nature intended. And this is…

— 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

The Librarian considered matters for a while. So…a dwarf and a troll. He preferred both species to humans. For one thing, neither…

— Terry Pratchett

Dwarfs were not a naturally religious species, but in a world where pit props could crack without warning and pockets of fire…

— Terry Pratchett