... when your name is really and truly Percy Blakeney, pronounced 'Black-knee', and you still have bad acne in your twenties, you… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
This, milord, is my family's axe. We have owned it for almost nine hundred years, see. Of course, sometimes it needed a… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Perhaps, if you knew you were going to die, your senses crammed in as much detail as they could while they still… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“A number of religions in Ankh-Morpork still practiced human sacrifice, except that they didn't really need to practice any more because they… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
It doesn't matter if dragons are flying overhead or whatever - a lot of Victoriana is still cut in the frame of… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
He stared at his feet. “I’m still very ignorant,” he said, “but at least I’m ignorant about really important things. — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
It was sad music. But it waved its sadness like a battle flag. It said the universe had done all it could,… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
If you trust in yourself. . .and believe in your dreams. . .and follow your star. . . you'll still get beaten… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
The sign, which says: "Do not, under any circumstances, open this door!" - Of course, I've read it. Why do you think… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Cutangle: While I'm still confused and uncertain, it's on a much higher plane, d'you see, and at least I know I'm bewildered… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Before you can kill a demon, you have to be able to say it's name. Names have power. While the word Alzheimer's… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Do you not know that a man is not dead while his name is still spoken? — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Noble dragons don't have friends. The nearest they can get to the idea is an enemy who is still alive. — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
If there was anything that depressed him more than his own cynicism, it was that quite often it still wasn't as cynical… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
The Captain of the Watch says if you're still in the City by sunrise he will personally have you buried alive. — 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
Mr Lipwig, there's a lady in the hall to see you and we've thanked her for not smoking three times and she's… — 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
