“Do you need an excuse to have a war? I mean, who for? Can't you just say "You got lots of cash… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“Sacharissa saw a movement. Boddony had pulled his axe out from under the bench. It was a traditional dwarf axe. One side… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“Five damn days, that battle took," said Truckle, "'cos the Duchess was doing a tapestry to commemorate it, right? We had to… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
I mean, you're right about the fire and war, all that. But that Rapture stuff--well, if you could see them all in… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“There is a lot of folklore about equestrian statues, especially the ones with riders on them. There is said to be a… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
The Four Horsemen whose Ride presages the end of the world are known to be Death, War, Famine, and Pestilence. But even… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“You know it’s going to be Mary the Maid, or someone like her, and there’s going to be two men and she… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“Erm.. dear, do I ride out for Apocalypses?' Mrs War took the lid off the saucepan and prodded viciously at something inside.… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
It seems that when you have cancer you are a brave battler against the disease, but when you have Alzheimer's you are… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Needless to say, they refused to submit to the Empire, conducting such a persistent guerrilla war that the Romans gave up hope… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“Now we have travelled a hundred million steps from the Datum, we are finding life systems entirely unlike our own - and… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“One of my ancestors fought in the War of the Roses“, she announced haughtily, without looking round, “and in those wars you… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“According to the history books, the decisive battle that ended the Ankh-Morpork Civil War was fought between two handfuls of bone-weary men… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“Men marched away, Vimes. And men marched back. How glorious the battles would have been that they never had to fight!” — 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
The conflict is not between Christianity and Islam or between East and West - instead, it is between stupid people and other… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Putting up a statue to someone who tried to stop a war is not very, um, statuesque. Of course, if you had… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
It's going to look pretty good, then, isn't it," said War testily, "the One Horseman and Three Pedestrians of the Apocalypse. — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“There are very few starts. Oh, some things seem to be beginnings. The curtain goes up, the first pawn moves, the first… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“The face you wear in a battlefield should be a solemn one until the time when things are cleaned up and the… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“You fight a war to change the world, and it changes into a world with no place in it for you, the… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Most armies are in fact run by their sergeants - the officers are there just to give things a bit of tone… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“Are we entirely ready, sir?" said Lieutenant Hornett, with the special inflection that means "We are not entirely ready, sir." "We had… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“I never understood that story, anyway,” said Nanny. “I mean, if I knew I’d got a heel that would kill me if… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
I don't believe in the war god of the Israelites. He's a bogeyman. Jesus preached the golden rule, by and large. — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Your average witch is not, by nature, a social animal as far as other witches are concerned. There's a conflict of dominant… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
They can ta'k our lives but they can never ta'k our freedom!' Now there's a battle cry not designed by a clear… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“Afterward, there was that long, crowded pause in which everyone decides that although they are very shaken, and possibly upside down, they… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“What really causes wars is two sides that can’t stand the sight of one another and the pressure builds up and up… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Peace?' said Vetinari. 'Ah, yes, defined as period of time to allow for preparation for the next war. — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“The forces of darkness must be beaten. You seem to be under a misapprehension. The point is not to avoid the war,… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
A Duke couldn't have the arse hanging out of his trousers when meeting foreign diplomats. Actually even plain old Sam Vimes never… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
History, contrary to popular theories, is kings and dates and battles. — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“The precise origins of the Mage Wars have been lost in the fogs of Time, but Disc philosophers agree that the First… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Although the scythe isn't pre-eminent among the weapons of war, anyone who has been on the wrong end of, say, a peasants'… — 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
“And now I demand that you do what the ignorant might feel is the easier thing. You must refrain from dying in… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“How big a war?" "A worse one than the one fifty years ago, I expect," said Cheery. "I don't recall people talking… — 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
