Discworld Quote by Terry Pratchett Download Open image ““I thought dwarfs loved gold," said Angua. "They just say that to get it into bed.”” — Terry Pratchett ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.2 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Discworld Humourous
“upon the lid in letters of gold. Then he said to the dwarfs,” — Hamilton Wright Mabie Copy Share Image
“I am fond of coins. Is there any sound as sweet as the clink of gold on gold?” — George R.R. Martin Copy Share Image
“I see,' said the Patrician sweetly. 'You feel, perhaps, that it would be a marvellous thing to go to the Counterweight Continent and bring… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“Somebody's been feeding the boy fables. Probably the king's niece. Humph. Nice girl. Too many romantic notions, though.” — Patrick W. Carr Copy Share Image
“Are you carrying gold?" I asked sweetly. He frowned. "No? Silver? Lead? Copper?" I made big, innocent eyes at him. "A girl out in… — Devon Monk Copy Share Image
“They said Lord Tywin loved gold most of all; he even shit gold,” — George R.R. Martin Copy Share Image
“Think of me,' she said because it seemed like something a girl in a fairy tale might say. Think of me. Remember me. Love… — Jennifer McMahon Copy Share Image
“She smells like angels ought to smell, the perfect woman... the Goddess. Goldie. She says her name is Goldie.” — Frank Miller Copy Share Image
“Perhaps she just needed to remind herself more often how that gold was still floating above her head, it's minuscule particles visible only when… — Francesca Marciano Copy Share Image
“Go ahead, tell him that everything is going to be fine. All the meatsacks are perfectly content on their happy little island, Sarren has… — Julie Kagawa Copy Share Image
“I fear I our good dwarf has lost his taste for adventure. I managed to get word to him, thinking he might come along… — Lloyd Alexander Copy Share Image
“This one’s mental.’ ‘Eccentric.’ ‘What’s the difference?’ ‘A bag of cash.” — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“But I did not return until half past four this morning and I distinctly remember stubbing my toe on the stairs. I am as drunk as a skunk, Drumknott, which of course means skunks are just as drunk as I. I must say the term is unfamiliar to me, and I had not thought hitherto of skunks in this context,… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share
“The universe contains any amount of horrible ways to be woken up, such as the noise of the mob breaking down the front door, the scream of fire engines, or the realization that today is the Monday which on Friday night was a comfortably long way off. A dog's wet nose is not strictly speaking the worst of the bunch,… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share
“Someone broke from the scrum and, punching and kicking, staggered towards the Klatchian goal. "Isn't that man your butler?" said Ahmed. "Yes." "One of… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
It's an interesting fact that fewer than 17 % of Real cats end their lives with the same name they started with. Much family… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Either dragons should exist completely or fail to exist at all, he felt. A dragon only half-existing was worse than the extremes. — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“Magrat wondered what it was like, spending your whole life doing something you didn’t want to do. Like being dead, she considered, only worse,… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
A hardback's harder at Christmas time because that's a good hardback buying time. — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“There were more old people. The world was full of them,' said the wizard. 'Yes, I know. And now it's full of young people.… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“Hobson was big and heavyset, but not exactly fat; he was probably what you’d get if you shaved a bear.” — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“There is a night that never comes to an end… The clock of the world turns under its own shadow. Midnight is a moving… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“Someone broke from the scrum and, punching and kicking, staggered towards the Klatchian goal. "Isn't that man your butler?" said Ahmed. "Yes." "One of… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“There was a steady drizzle when they left for the tower. Moist drove the cart, with the others sitting on the load behind him… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“Sacharissa saw a movement. Boddony had pulled his axe out from under the bench. It was a traditional dwarf axe. One side was a… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Nature abhors a lot of things, including vacuums, ships called the Marie Celeste, and the chuck keys for electric drills. — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“It was the way he wore the place. You expected him any moment to break into the kind of song that has suspicious rhymes and phrases like "my kind of town" and "I wanna be a part of it" in it; the kind of song where people dance in the street and give the singer apples and join in and… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share
“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 open a window". They did have instructions like "Adde Aqua Quirmis to the Zinc untile Rising Gas Yse Vigorousky Evolved", but never added "Don't Doe Thys Atte Home" or even "And Say Fare-Thee-Welle to Thy Eyebrows.” — Terry Pratchett Copy Share
A good bookshop is just a genteel Black Hole that knows how to read. — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
God does not play dice [with the universe]. [Ger., Gott wurfelt nicht.] — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“Vimes shook some lather off the blade. "Hah! I bet they have. Tell me, Willikins, did you fight much when you were a kid? Were you in a gang or anything?" "I was privileged to belong to the Shamlegger Street Rude Boys, sir," said the butler. "Really?" said Vimes, genuinely impressed. "They were pretty tough nuts, as I recall." "Thank… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share