Discworld Quote by Terry Pratchett

“The Ramkins were more highly bred than a hilltop bakery, whereas Corporal Nobbs had been disqualified from the human race for shoving.”

— Terry Pratchett

“Disqualified as a human being. I had now ceased utterly to be a human being.”

— Osamu Dazai

“Disqualified as a human being.”

— Osamu Dazai

“Corporal Nobbs,” he rasped, “why are you kicking people when they’re down?” “Safest way, sir,” said Nobby. Nobby had long ago been told about…

— Terry Pratchett

“Vimes shook some lather off the blade. "Hah! I bet they have. Tell me, Willikins, did you fight much when you were a kid?…

— Terry Pratchett

“There was a hell for blasphemers. There was a hell for disputers of rightful authority. There were a number of hells for liars. There…

— Terry Pratchett

I think I work much harder on the children's books. I suppose I enjoy that. I find it interesting that although there are more…

— Terry Pratchett

“Don't wish , Miss Tick had said. Do things.”

— Terry Pratchett

A good bookshop is just a genteel Black Hole that knows how to read.

— Terry Pratchett

“Her books on alchemy were marvellous objects, every page a work of the engraver's art, but they nowhere contained instructions like "Be sure to…

— Terry Pratchett

“It was the way he wore the place. You expected him any moment to break into the kind of song that has suspicious rhymes…

— Terry Pratchett

Nature abhors a lot of things, including vacuums, ships called the Marie Celeste, and the chuck keys for electric drills.

— Terry Pratchett