Terry Pratchett Quotes
But we were dragons. We were supposed to be cruel, cunning, heartless and terrible. But this much I can tell you, we never burned and tortured and ripped one another apart and called it morality.
...Human beings, little bags of thinking water held up briefly by fragile accumulations of calcium...
On the Kite, the situation was being 'workshopped'. This is the means by which people who don't know anything get together to pool their ignorance.
He stared at his feet. “I’m still very ignorant, ” he said, “but at least I’m ignorant about really important things.
YOU HAVE TO START OUT LEARNING TO BELIEVE THE LITTLE LIES."So we can believe the big ones?"YES. JUSTICE. MERCY. DUTY. THAT SORT OF THING.
Silence fell like a hammer made of feathers. It left holes in the shape of the sound of the sea.
A mirror can contain the reflection of the whole universe, a whole skyful of stars in a piece of silvered glass no thicker than a breath.
I believe the term is ‘eminent domain.’Ah, yes. That means ‘theft by the government,
Of all the forces in the universe, the hardest to overcome is the force of habit.
Is It Frightening To Be Free?""You said it.""You Say To People 'Throw Off Your Chains' And They Make New Chains For Themselves?""Seems to be a major human activity, yes.
The gods had a habit of going round to atheists' houses and smashing their windows.
But what's worth more than gold?""Practically everything. You, for example. Gold is heavy. Your weight in gold is not very much gold at all. Aren't you worth more than that?
And he goes around killing people?” said Mort. He shook his head. “There’s no justice.”Death sighed. No, he said... there’s just me.
After all, people seemed quite easy about having their rights and liberties taken away by those they looked up to, but somehow a space on the perch was a slap in the face, and treated as such.
A woman always has half an onion left over, no matter what the size of the onion, the dish or the woman
His voice gave out and he made several wavy motions with his hand, indicative of the shape of a woman who would probably be unable to keep her balance.
It tells him what to say. I know it sounds ridiculous, ” muttered Hugh.“How can a book tell a man what to say?
I tell them stars have never hurt me, I wish I could say the same about people.
Rain don't fall on a with if she doesn't want it to, although personally I prefer to get wet and be thankful.""Thankful for what?" said Tiffany."That I'll get dry later.
Silverfish looked down."Oh. Are you a dwarf?"Cuddy gave him a blank stare."Are you a giant?" He said."Me? Of course not!""Ah. Then I must be a dwarf, yes.
Alas, between the “shouldn’t” and the “shouldn’t have”—that is precisely where life happens.
Heaven has no taste.""Now-""And not one single sushi restaurant."A look of pain crossed the angel's suddenly very serious face.
You couldn't get a decent drink in either of them, for a start. And the boredom you got in Heaven was almost as bad as the excitement you got in Hell.
Ye mustn't be afraid to ask for help. Pride is a good thing, my girl, but it will kill you in time.
Its like people care more abput their pride than about what's correct, about the truth.
It's like people care more about their pride than about what's correct, about the truth.
It’s most unfair. Once people find out you’re a vampire they act as if you’re some kind of monster.
What a mess the world was in, Vimes reflected. Constable Visit had told him the meek would inherit it, and what had the poor devils done to deserve that?
Could I please amend that suggestion? Could you not be there in the second darkest shadow one hour before midnight, to see who steps into the darkest shadow?
Little crimes breed big crimes. You smile at little crimes and then big crimes blow your head off.
He grinned. It was the sort of grin that Agnes supposed was called infectious but, then, so was measles.
Afterward, there was that long, crowded pause in which everyone decides that although they are very shaken, and possibly upside down, they are, to their surprise, still alive.
Then he kept to the back streets, and found a place that did a very reasonable double sausage, egg, bacon and fried slice, in the hope that food could replace sleep.
Yes, she'd made a mistake... but she wasn't going to be bullied. You couldn't let boys go around raining on your lava and ogling other people's watercolors.
It struck Mort with sudden, terrible poignancy that Death must be the loneliest creature in the universe. In the great party of Creation, he was always in the kitchen.
People said that there was one law for the rich and one law for the poor, but it wasn't true. There was no law for those who made the law, and no law for the incorrigibly lawless.
Racism was not a problem on the Discworld, because—what with trolls and dwarfs and so on—speciesism was more interesting. Black and white lived in perfect harmony and ganged up on green.
You'll get into dreadful trouble and it won't be my fault. You are bad people.
You couldn't say: It's not my fault. You couldn't say: It's not my responsibility.You could say: I will deal with this.You didn't have to want to. But you had to do it.
The last thing she wanted was to see her friend getting ideas in her head. There was such a lot of room in there for them to bounce around and do damage.
It's not worth doing something unless you were doing something that someone, somewhere, would much rather you weren't doing.