All Terry Pratchett Quotes
- He'd been an angel once. He hadn't meant to Fall. He'd just hung around with the wrong people. Angel
- Ordinary fortune-tellers tell you what you want to happen; witches tell you what’s going to happen whether you want it to or not. Strangely enough,… Accurate
- Cheery was aware that Commander Vimes didn't like the phrase 'The innocent have nothing to fear', believing the innocent had everything to fear, mostly from… Aware
- They can tak' oour lives but they canna tak' oour troousers! Canna
- It's always surprising to be reminded that while you're watching and thinking about people, all knowing and superior, they're watching and thinking about you, right… All
- Death was standing behind a lectern, poring over a map. He looked at Mort as if he wasn’t entirely there. Yᴏᴜ ʜᴀᴠᴇɴ'ᴛ ʜᴇᴀʀᴅ ᴏғ ᴛʜᴇ… B O
- See a pin and pick it up, and, all day long, you'll have a pin. All
- The key to winning, as always, was looking as if you had every right, nay, duty to be where you were. It helped if you… Any
- You can’t say ‘if this didn’t happen then that would have happened’ because you don’t know everything that might have happened. You might think something’d… All
- If you want to change a whole people, then you start with the girls. It stands to reason: they learn faster, and they pass on… Change
- One day all of us will die but - and this is the important thing - we are not dead yet. All
- Questions don't have to make sense, Vincent," said Miss Susan. "But answers do. Answers
- People look down on stuff like geography and meteorology, and not only because they're standing on one and being soaked by the other. They don't… Chaos
- People are often so busy living that they never stop to wonder why. Busy
- Evil in general does not sleep, and therefore doesn't see why anyone else should. Anyone
- I certainly don't sit down and plan a book out before I write it. There's a phrase I use called "The Valley Full of Clouds."… Across
- 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 it. Change the… All
- This book had two authors, and they were both the same person. Authors
- I like being a writer. Writer
- Nothing I can say or devise, and nothing anybody else can say or devise, is going to be perfect. Anybody
- Often I sort of work up and down the manuscript. I sometimes used to go ahead of myself to see what was going to happen… Ahead
- I am a great fan of science, but I cannot do a quadratic equation. Equation
- I was a very keen reader of science fiction, and during the time I was going to libraries, it was good, written by people who… Fiction
- Journalism makes you think fast. You have to speak to people in all walks of life. Especially local journalism. All
- Truthfully, without over-egging it, as I often do, the library and journalism, those things made me who I am. Egging