All Terry Pratchett Quotes
- Mere animals couldn’t possibly manage to act like this. You need to be a human being to be really stupid. Act
- The trouble with life was that you didn’t get a chance to practice before doing it for real. Chance
- The conversation of human beings seldom interested him, but it crossed his mind that the males and females always got along best when neither actually… Actually Listened
- It's daft, locking us up," said Nanny. "I'd have had us killed." "That's because you're basically good," said Magrat. "The good are innocent and create… Bad
- Where's the pleasure in bein' the winner if the loser ain't alive to know they've lost? Alive
- Colon thought Carrot was simple. Carrot often struck people as simple. And he was. Where people went wrong was thinking that simple meant the same… Carrot
- Everything is a test. Funny
- So much paperwork to read! So much paperwork to push away! So much paperwork to pretend he hadn't received and that might have been eaten… Been
- Dwarfs were not a naturally religious species, but in a world where pit props could crack without warning and pockets of fire damp could suddenly… Aaargh
- He’s bound to have done something,” Nobby repeated. In this he was echoing the Patrician’s view of crime and punishment. If there was a crime,… Accident
- Oh, there's plenty of reasons. I just don't know which one. Inspirational
- They suffered from the terrible delusion that something could be done. They seemed prepared to make the world the way they wanted it or die… Attempt
- This is space. It's sometimes called the final frontier. (Except that of course you can't have a final frontier, because there'd be nothing for it… Called
- He was certain he was anorectic, because every time he looked in a mirror he saw a fat man. It was the Archchancellor, standing behind… Behind
- You can think and you can fight, but the world's always movin', and if you wanna stay ahead you gotta dance. Ahead
- Granny Weatherwax was not lost. She wasn't the kind of person who ever became lost. It was just that, at the moment, while she knew… Anywhere
- First Sight means you can see what really is there, and Second Thoughts mean thinking about what you are thinking. And in Tiffany's case, there… Case
- But the helmet had gold decoration, and the bespoke armorers had made a new gleaming breastplate with useless gold ornamentation on it. Sam Vimes felt… Armor
- There have been better attempts at marching, and they have been made by penguins. Attempts
- But that was just it - hate was exactly the right word. Hate is a force of attraction. Hate is just love with its back… Attraction
- It was a backwards memory of an event in his future so terrifying that it had generated harmonics of fear all the way along his… All
- WHO KNOWS WHAT EVIL LURKS IN THE HEART OF MEN? The Death of Rats looked up from the feast of the potato. SQUEAK, he said.… Anyone
- Fantasy is escapism, but wait... Why is this wrong? What are you escaping from, and where are you escaping to? Is the story opening windows… Ability
- What is a fantasy map but a space beyond which There Be Dragons? Beyond
- The Four Horsemen whose Ride presages the end of the world are known to be Death, War, Famine, and Pestilence. But even less significant events… Any