“The universe contains any amount of horrible ways to be woken up, such as the noise of the mob breaking down the… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
There isn't a way things should be. There's just what happens, and what we do. — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
The universe clearly operates for the benefit of humanity. This can be readily seen from the convenient way the sun comes up… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Please give us a simple answer, so that we don't have to think, because if we think, we might find answers that… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Things like crowns had a troublesome effect on clever folk; it was best to leave all the reigning to the kind of… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Taxation is just a sophisticated way of demanding money with menaces. — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Rings try to find their way back to their owner. Someone ought to write a book about it. — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
They suffered from the terrible delusion that something could be done. They seemed prepared to make the world the way they wanted… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
First Thoughts are the everyday thoughts. Everyone has those. Second Thoughts are the thoughts you think about the way you think. People… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
He moved in a way that suggested he was attempting the world speed record for the nonchalant walk. — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
And when the Patrician was unhappy, he became very democratic. He found intricate and painful ways of spreading that unhappiness as far… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
You will have to look a long way before you find a bunch of scum-suckers more greedy, humourless and deserving of death… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Humans had built a world inside the world, which reflected it in pretty much the same way as a drop of water… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Time was something that largely happened to other people; he viewed it in the same way that people on the shore viewed… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
I read the 'Old Testament' all the way through when I was about 13 and was horrified. A few months afterwards I… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
This is Art holding a Mirror up to Life. That’s why everything is exactly the wrong way around. — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Coffee is a way of stealing time that should by rights belong to your older self. — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
The universe danced towards life. Life was a remarkably common commodity. Anything sufficiently complicated seemed to get cut in for some, in… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
It was a backwards memory of an event in his future so terrifying that it had generated harmonics of fear all the… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Or -- and this she knew was a far more accurate way of looking at it -- the book was true and… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
It's no wonder most religions are born in the desert, because when men lay beneath that boundless night sky and look up… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Good and bad is tricky," she said. "I ain't too certain about where people stand. P'raps what matters is which way you… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
For example, the dwarfs found out how to turn lead into gold by doing it the hard way. The difference between that… — 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
