All Terry Pratchett Quotes
- I believe everyone should have a good death. You know, with your grandchildren around you, a bit of sobbing. Because after all, tears are appropriate… All
- There can be no better grounding for a lifetime as an author than to see humanity in all its various guises through the lens of… All
- There are some people who hate my guts. But that goes with the territory. Goes
- When I was a kid, I read the science-fiction shelves, and I read the fantasy shelves. Fantasy
- I write books back to back, and I work very hard on them. Books
- There is a soak-the-rich attitude in the air, a feeling that if you have a lot of money you must have got it by some… Air
- I have a living will and I have friends, and I have money and I have hope. Friends
- There are things around, and I know where they can be got quite easily, but I quite like waking up to the sunshine. Easily
- Plot exposition that can be gently wound out by the authorial voice and internal monologue of a character in the length of a page has… Authorial
- We have been so successful in the past century at the art of living longer and staying alive that we have forgotten how to die.… Age
- 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
- You can't trust any bugger further than you can throw him, and there's nothing you can do about it, so let's have a drink. Any
- I meant, said Ipslore bitterly, what is there in this world that truly makes living worth while? Death thought about it Cats, he said eventually,… Bitterly
- Death was Nature's way of telling you to slow down. Death
- One of the universal rules of happiness is: always be wary of any helpful item that weighs less than its operating manual. Any
- Everyday took an age to go by, which was odd, because days plural went past like a stampede. Age
- Never trust any complicated cocktail that remainds perfectly clear until the last ingredient goes in, and then immediately clouds. Any
- Build a man a fire and he'll be warm for the night. Set a man on fire and he'll be warm for the rest of… Build
- "Why does everyone run toward a blood curdling scream?" mumbled the Senior Wrangler. "It is contrary to all sense." All
- The universe, they said, depended for its operation on the balance of four forces which they identified as charm, persuasion, uncertainty and bloody-mindedness. Balance
- I'd have you lot up in front of the University authorities first thing in the morning, if it wasn't for the fact that you are… Authorities
- Suicide was against the law. Johnny had wondered why. It meant that if you missed, or the gas ran out, or the rope broke, you… Broke
- Using a metaphor in front of a man as unimaginative as Ridcully was like a red flag to a bull, was like putting something very… Annoyed
- What do you call those things you find at the bottom of rivers? Frogs? Stones? Unsuccessful Gangsters? Bottom