All Terry Pratchett Quotes
- Lessee...he'd gone off after the funeral and gotten drunk. No, not drunk, another word, ended with "er." Drunker. that was it. Another Word
- Sometimes the crime follows the punishment, which only serves to prove the foresight of the Great God." "That's what my grandmother used to say," said… Automatically
- It was quite impossible to describe. Here is what it looked like. It looked like a piano sounds shortly after being dropped down a well.… Describe
- People were people, even if they had four legs and had called themselves names like Dangerous Beans, which is the kind of name you gave… Actually Meant
- If you don't turn your life into a story, you just become a part of someone else's story. Into
- My name is immaterial,' she said. That's a pretty name,' said Rincewind. Immaterial
- Sometimes words need music too. Sometimes the descriptions are not enough. Books should be written with soundtracks, like films. Book
- Little fussy Otto, in his red-lined black opera cloak with pockets for all his gear, his shiny black shoes, his carefully cut widow's peak and,… Accent
- But there was more to it than that. As the Amazing Maurice said, it was just a story about people and rats. And the difficult… Amazing
- YOU FEAR TO DIE? "It's not that I don't want... I mean, I've always...it's just that life is a habit that's hard to break... Break
- Credulous: having views about the world, the universe and humanity's place in it that are shared only by very unsophisticated people and the most intelligent… Advanced
- Look, he said to his imagination, if this is how you're going to behave, I shan't bring you again. Behave
- Several sellers of hot meat pies and sausages in a bun had appeared from nowhere and were doing a brisk trade. [Footnote: They always do,… Appeared
- That's a nice song,' said young Sam, and Vimes remembered that he was hearing it for the first time. It's an old soldiers' song,' he… Added
- You just put that sword away, sir, please," said the voice of Lance-Constable Vimes. "You will not shoot me, you young idiot. That would be… Aiming
- If you trust in yourself. . .and believe in your dreams. . .and follow your star. . . you'll still get beaten by people who… Beaten
- Seeing, contrary to popular wisdom, isn't believing. It's where belief stops, because it isn't needed any more. Any
- Bishops move diagonally. That's why they often turn up where the kings don't expect them to be. Bishops
- There are hardly any excesses of the most crazed psychopath that cannot easily be duplicated by a normal kindly family man who just comes in… Any
- The figures looked more or less human. And they were engaged in religion. You could tell by the knives (it's not murder if you do… Engaged
- Probably the last man who knew how it worked had been tortured to death years before. Or as soon as it was installed. Killing the… Been
- The merest accident of microgeography had meant that the first man to hear the voice of Om, and who gave Om his view of humans,… Accident
- A good plan isn't one where someone wins, it's where nobody thinks they've lost. Good
- It was so much easier to blame it on Them. It was bleakly depressing to think that They were Us. If it was Them, then… All
- [The pamphlet] was very patriotic. That is, it talked about killing foreigners. Foreigners