“You'd like Freedom, Truth, and Justice, wouldn't you, Comrade Sergeant?' said Reg encouragingly. 'I'd like a hard-boiled egg,' said Vimes, shaking the… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
I was once a journalist. And I think of myself as a journalist, and that's it. You tell the truth. I even… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“The wizards held that, as servants of a higher truth, they were not subject to the mundane laws of the city. The… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Drinks like this tend to get called Traffic Lights or Rainbow's Revenge or, in places where truth is more highly valued, Hello… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
That's why it's always worth having a few philosophers around the place. One minute it's all is truth beauty and is beauty… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“A lie can run round the world before the truth has got its boots on.” — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Once you've ruled out the impossible then whatever is left, however improbable, must be the truth. The problem lay in working out… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
WHO KNOWS WHAT EVIL LURKS IN THE HEART OF MEN? The Death of Rats looked up from the feast of the potato.… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“Once you’ve ruled out the impossible then whatever is left, however improbable, must be the truth. The problem lay in working out… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
But, in truth, it had not exactly been gold, or even the promise of gold, but more like the fantasy of gold,… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“The truth of the matter was that Juliet would look good in a sack. Somehow everything she wore fitted perfectly. Glenda, on… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
No. Men should die for lies. But the truth is too precious to die for. — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
The presence of those seeking the truth is infinitely to be preferred to the presence of those who think they've found it. — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Good or bad, do it as you. Too many lies and there's no truth to go back to. — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“He was up against a mind that regarded truth as a reference point but certainly not as a shackle.” — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
The real world was far too real to leave neat little hints. It was full of too many things. It wasn't by… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Yes, but people have got to believe that, or what's the point MY POINT EXACTLY. — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
When people say things are a lot more complicated than that, they means they're getting worried that they won't like the truth. — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Nothing has to be true forever. Just for long enough, to tell you the truth. — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“Take it from me, whenever you see a bunch of buggers puttering around talking about truth and beauty and the best way… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
The truth isn't easily pinned to a page. In the bathtub of history the truth is harder to hold than the soap… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“All right," said Susan. "I'm not stupid. You're saying humans need... fantasies to make life bearable." REALLY? AS IF IT WAS SOME… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
There are, it has been said, two types of people in the world. There are those who, when presented with a glass… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“untrue. The truth is that even big collections of ordinary books distort space, as can readily be proved by anyone who has… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“A metaphor is a kind o' lie to help people understand what's true.” — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
The universe is, instant by instant, recreated anew. There is in truth no past, only a memory of the past. Blink your… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“Vimes thought for a moment and said, 'Well, dear, it is a truth universally acknowledged that a man with a lot of… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
The truth is a fog, in which one man sees the heavenly host and the other one sees a flying elephant. — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Sometimes the truth is arrived at by adding all the little lies together and deducting them from the totality of what is… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“Truth is female, since truth is beauty rather than handsomeness; this, Ridcully reflected as the council grumbled in, would certainly explain the… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“Trouble is, just because things are obvious doesn't mean they're true.” — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“Life in this world,” he said, “is, as it were, a sojourn in a cave. What can we know of reality? For… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
The truth is that even big collections of ordinary books distort space, as can readily be proved by anyone who has been… — 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
