Do not meddle in the affairs of wizards because a refusal often offends, I read somewhere. — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“My father always said, he said, “Do not peddle in the affairs of wizards...” — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Do you know how wizards like to be buried?" "Yes!" "Well, how?" Granny Weatherwax paused at the bottom of the stairs. "Reluctantly. — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“It was like ... like wizardry, but without the wizards and the mess.” — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“The wizards were good at wind, weather being a matter not of force but of lepidoptery.” — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“There were really only four kind of people in the world: men and women and wizards and witches.” — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“But there's magic too. You'll pick that up. It don't take much intelligence, otherwise wizards wouldn't be able to do it.” — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
An ancient proverb summed it up when a wizard is tired of looking for broken glass in his dinner, it ran, he… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“The library was full of wizards, who care about their books in the same way that ants care about their eggs and… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
He helped the Librarian up. There was a red glow in the ape's eyes. It had tried to steal his books. This… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
I'm not the world's greatest expert, but I would have thought that the wizards, witches, trolls, unicorns, ... broomsticks and spells would… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Be one of the crowd? It went against everything a wizard stood for, and a wizard would not stand for anything if… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“Good so be would you if, duff plum of helping second A," said the Bursar. The table fell silent. "Did anyone understand… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“Actually, we'd have once chance" … Even if it's a million to one chance, ma'am." "That's all very well," said Nanny, "but… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“Ridcully sighed. 'All right, you fellows,' he said. 'No magic at Table, you know the rules. Who's playing silly buggers?' The other… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“Firstly,” said Ponder, “Mr Pessimal wants to know what we do here.” “Do? We are the premier college of magic!” said Ridcully.… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“After a while the Senior Wrangler said, "Do you know, I read the other day that every atom in your body is… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“Wizards are specially trained to see things that are there and not to see things that aren’t.” — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Do you think there’s anything to eat in this forest?” “Yes,” said the wizard bitterly, “us. — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
There are thousands of good reasons why magic doesn't rule the world. They're called Witches and Wizards. — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Sometimes you can think that 'I've had enough of wizards!' And sometimes fantasy is not just about wizards. — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Some people think this is paranoia, but it isn't. Paranoids only think everyone is out to get them. Wizards know it. — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
The senior wizard in a world of magic had the same prospects of long-term employment as a pogo stick tester in a… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
What is magic? There is the wizard's explanation... wizards talk about candles, circles, planets, stars, bananas, chants, runes and the importance of… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Any wizard bright enough to survive for five minutes was also bright enough to realize that if there was any power in… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“Besides…where Rincewind went’ – he lowered his voice – ‘trouble followed behind.’ Ridcully noticed that the wizards drew a little closer together.… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
It's an old magical principle - it's even filtered down into RPG systems - that magic, while taking a lot of effort,… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“Wizards don’t believe in gods. They didn’t deny their existence, of course. They just didn’t believe. It was nothing personal; they weren’t… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
He talks pretty big for a gutter wizard," he muttered. "You don't understand at all," said the wizard wearily. "I'm so scared… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Unlike wizards, who like nothing better than a complicated hierarchy, witches don't go in much for the structured approach to career progression.… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Wizards don't believe in gods in the same way that most people don't find it necessary to believe in, say, tables. They… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“There are eight levels of wizardry on the Disc; after sixteen years Rincewind has failed to achieve even level one. In fact… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Any true wizard, faced with a sign like 'Do not open this door. Really. We mean it. We're not kidding. Opening this… — 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
