All Terry Pratchett Quotes
- People think that stories are shaped by people. In fact, it's the other way around. Fact
- If you try to to take my bananas from me, I will reclaim them from your cold dead hands. Bananas
- ...it is well known that a vital ingredient of success is not knowing that what you're attempting can't be done. Attempting
- Wizards don't believe in gods in the same way that most people don't find it necessary to believe in, say, tables. They know they're there,… Agree
- Belief sloshes around in the firmament like lumps of clay spiralling into a potter's wheel. That's how gods get created, for example. They clearly must… Belief
- ALL THINGS THAT ARE, ARE OURS. BUT WE MUST CARE. FOR IF WE DO NOT CARE, WE DO NOT EXIST. IF WE DO NOT EXIST,… All
- I read anything that’s going to be interesting. But you don’t know what it is until you’ve read it. Somewhere in a book on the… Book
- Gods play games with the fates of men. But first they have to get all the pieces on the board and look all over the… All
- I mean, you're right about the fire and war, all that. But that Rapture stuff--well, if you could see them all in Heaven--serried ranks of… Acceptable
- I would like permission to fetch a note from my mother, sir' Ridcully sighed. 'Rincewind, you once informed me, to my everlasting puzzlement, that you… Another Try
- It is important that we know where we come from, because if you do not know where you come from, then you don't know where… From
- Good or bad, do it as you. Too many lies and there's no truth to go back to. Bad
- The truth is that even big collections of ordinary books distort space, as can readily be proved by anyone who has been around a really… Anyone
- Got to be worth a try, I suppose," said Crowley. "It's not as if I haven't got lots of other work to do, God knows."… Aziraphale
- It was long after midnight and the stars looked damp and chilly; the air was full of the busy silence of the night, which is… Air
- Granny was an old-fashioned witch. She didn’t do good for people, she did right by them. Didn
- The elevator shaft was a kind of heat sink. Hot food was cold by the time it arrived. Cold food got colder. No one knew… Arrived
- It wasn't that Nanny Ogg sang badly. It was just that she could hit notes which, when amplified by a tin bath half full of… Amplified
- And these are your reasons, my lord?" "Do you think I have others?" said Lord Vetinari. "My motives, as ever, are entirely transparent." Hughnon reflected… All
- She heard him mutter, 'Can you take away this grief?' 'I'm sorry,' she replied. 'Everyone asks me. And I would not do so even if… Asks
- There are times in life when people must know when not to let go. Balloons are designed to teach small children this. Balloons
- WHAT WOULD HAVE HAPPENED IF YOU HADN'T SAVED HIM? "Yes! The sun would have risen just the same, yes?" NO "Oh, come on. You can't… Astronomical
- The girls were expected to grow up to be somebody's wife. They were also expected to read and write, those being considered soft indoor jobs… Boys
- And all the stories had, somewhere, the witch. The wicked old witch. And Tiffany had thought: Where's the evidence? All
- Hello, inner child, I'm the inner babysitter! Babysitter