All Terry Pratchett Quotes
- There is no doubt that being human is incredibly difficult and cannot be mastered in one lifetime. Difficult
- What's the good of having mastery over cosmic balance and knowing the secrets of fate if you can't blow something up? Balance
- Education had been easy. Learning things had been harder. Been
- Some people are confident because they are fools. Leonard had the look of someone who was confident because, so far, he'd never found a reason… Confident
- That was the very centre of his genius - he invented things that anyone could have thought of, and men who can invent things that… Anyone
- Racism was not a problem on the Discworld, because - what with trolls and dwarfs and so on - speciesism was more interesting. Black and… Black
- I've never really liked the Yanks. ... You can't trust people who pick up the ball all the time when they play football. All
- One minute I'm just another rabbit and happy about it, next minute *whazaam*, I'm thinking. That's a major drawback if you're looking for happiness as… All
- In her own special category, she was quite beautiful. This was the category of all the women, in his entire life, who had ever thought… All
- There are plenty of people who believe that Elvis is alive, or that aliens occasionally land here to do highly personal things to people, or… Aliens
- The students were staring at her in the manner of those who have heard of the species 'female' but have never expected to get this… Close
- Rincewind shivered. He was not, of course, an atheist; on the Disc the gods dealt severely with atheists. On the few occasions when he had… All
- Sheep are stupid, and have to be driven. But goats are intelligent, and need to be led. Animal
- The most prudent thing any intelligent animal can do, if it would prefer its descendents not to spend a lot of time on a slab… Animal
- There are no medium-sized trees in the deep forest. There are only the towering ones, whose canopy spreads across the sky. Below, in the gloom,… Across
- Humans had built a world inside the world, which reflected it in pretty much the same way as a drop of water reflected the landscape.… All
- She'd stopped reading the kind of women's magazine that talked about romance and knitting and started reading the kind of women's magazine that talked about… Apart
- He'd noticed that sex bore some resemblance to cookery: it fascinated people, they sometimes bought books full of complicated recipes and interesting pictures, and sometimes… Banquets
- Somewhere around the place I've got an unfinished short story about Schrodinger's Dog; it was mostly moaning about all the attention the cat was getting. All
- They looked at one another in incomprehension, two minds driving opposite ways up a narrow street and waiting for the other man to reverse first. Argument