World Quotes by Terry Pratchett

Given enough coffee I could rule the world

— Terry Pratchett

It's a god-eat-god world.

— Terry Pratchett

“The world was bright and strange and he was in the middle of it.”

— Terry Pratchett

The jurisdiction of a good man extends to the end of the world.

— Terry Pratchett

It's useful to go out of this world and see it from the perspective of another one.

— Terry Pratchett

“A lie can run round the world before the truth has got its boots on.”

— Terry Pratchett

If you were going to be successful in the world of crime, you needed a reputation for honesty.

— Terry Pratchett

There were two ways of looking at the world, but only one when you are starving.

— Terry Pratchett

If you kept changing the way people saw the world, you ended up changing the way you saw yourself.

— Terry Pratchett

“Could they have the light without the darkness of this world?”

— Terry Pratchett

I'm up to my neck in the real world, every day. Just you try doing your VAT return with a head full…

— Terry Pratchett

Whatever you choose, your choice will mean there are two new worlds. And perhaps sometimes, on the edge of sleep, we will…

— Terry Pratchett

You can think and you can fight, but the world's always movin', and if you wanna stay ahead you gotta dance.

— Terry Pratchett

No more words. We know them all, all the words that should not be said. But you have made my world more…

— Terry Pratchett

A world like that, which exists only because the gods enjoy a joke, must be a place where magic can survive. And…

— Terry Pratchett

There's always a story. It's all stories, really. The sun coming up every day is a story. Everything's got a story in…

— Terry Pratchett

I meant," said Ipslore bitterly, "what is there in this world that truly makes living worthwhile?" Death thought about it. CATS, he…

— Terry Pratchett

There are thousands of good reasons why magic doesn't rule the world. They're called Witches and Wizards.

— Terry Pratchett

You had to deal every day with people who were foolish and lazy and untruthful and downright unpleasant, and you could certainly…

— Terry Pratchett

Sometimes I think a man could wander across the disc all his life and not see everything there is to see,' said…

— Terry Pratchett

The universe is, instant by instant, recreated anew. There is in truth no past, only a memory of the past. Blink your…

— Terry Pratchett

Take the universe and grind it down to the finest powder and sieve it through the finest sieve and then show me…

— Terry Pratchett

Magicians and scientists are, on the face of it, poles apart. Certainly, a group of people who often dress strangely, live in…

— Terry Pratchett

In fact, very few people on the face of the planet know that the very shape of the M25 forms the sigil…

— Terry Pratchett

I tell you, commander, it's true that some of the most terrible things in the world are done by people who think,…

— Terry Pratchett

Credulous: having views about the world, the universe and humanity's place in it that are shared only by very unsophisticated people and…

— Terry Pratchett

Granny Weatherwax was often angry. She considered it one of her strong points. Genuine anger was one of the world's greatest creative…

— Terry Pratchett

Fantasy is escapism, but wait... Why is this wrong? What are you escaping from, and where are you escaping to? Is the…

— Terry Pratchett

Dwarfs were not a naturally religious species, but in a world where pit props could crack without warning and pockets of fire…

— Terry Pratchett

Humans had built a world inside the world, which reflected it in pretty much the same way as a drop of water…

— Terry Pratchett

We're dealing here," said Vimes, "With a twisted mind." "Oh, no! You think so?" "Yes." "But... no... you can't be right. Because…

— Terry Pratchett

Unseen University was much bigger on the inside. Thousands of years as the leading establishment of practical magic in a world where…

— Terry Pratchett

There are, it has been said, two types of people in the world. There are those who, when presented with a glass…

— Terry Pratchett

I think what drove me away from being a reporter was an inability to accept that the world came in neat stories.…

— Terry Pratchett

No one is actually dead until the ripples they cause in the world die away...

— Terry Pratchett

The world is a globe — the farther you sail, the closer to home you are.

— Terry Pratchett

He moved in a way that suggested he was attempting the world speed record for the nonchalant walk.

— Terry Pratchett

As large as worlds. As old as Time. As patient as a brick.

— Terry Pratchett

Omens are everywhere in this world you just have to find the one that fits.

— Terry Pratchett

Maybe the best comics are written by people who really are at ease in the comic world.

— Terry Pratchett