Terry Pratchett Quotes
People are content to wait a long time for salvation, but expect dinner to turn up within the hour.
Yes, but humans are more important than animals, ' said Brutha.'This is a point of view often expressed by humans, ' said Om.
His age was indeterminate. But in cynicism and general world weariness, which is a sort of carbon dating of the personality, he was about seven thousand years old.
Might have just been an innocent bystander, sir, ’ said Carrot‘What, in Ankh-Morpork?’‘Yes, sir.’‘We should have grabbed him, then, just for the rarity value
Might have just been an innocent bystander, sir, ’ said Carrot'What, in Ankh-Morpork?’Yes, sir.’‘We should have grabbed him, then, just for the rarity value
Doesn't this place give you the creeps? You could perhaps do something with some floral wallpaper and a fire-bomb.
It’s bad enough barging into Guild property, but we’ll get into really serious trouble if we shoot anyone. Lord Vetinari won’t stop at sarcasm. He might use’ - Colon swallowed - ‘irony.
Of course, to be fair, that was a parent's job. The world was so full of sharp bends that if they didn't put a few twists in you, you wouldn't stand a chance of fitting in.
The games we play are lessons we learn. The assumptions we make, things we ignore, and things we change make us what we become.
The invisible people knew that happiness is not the natural state of mankind, and is never achieved from the outside in.
It's supposed to be jolly, with mistletoe and holly... and other things ending in olly.
In Ankh-Morpork you can be whoever you want to be and sometimes people laugh and sometimes they clap, and mostly and beautifully, they don't really care.
Cats, Dog considered, were clearly a lot tougher than lost souls.
Cats do not hunt seals. They would hunt them if they knew what seals and where to find them. But they do not know, so it's okay.
Living this long's not as wonderful as people think. I mean, you get the same amount of youth as everyone else, but a great big extra helping of being very old and deaf and creaky.
There are some laws that are coded into the very nature of the universe, and one is: There Is Never Enough Shelf Space.
You Say To People 'Throw Off Your Chains' And They Make New Chains For Themselves?
She’d struck Esk once before – the blow a baby gets to introduce it to the world and give it a rough idea of what to expect from life.
Captain Vimes believed in logic, in much the same way as a man in a desert believed in ice -- i.e., it was something he really needed, but this just wasn't the world for it.
Questions don't have to make sense, Vincent, " said Miss Susan. "But answers do.
She herself had short red hair and a face which was not so much freckled as one big freckle with occasional areas of white
...You want a special truth. *You* want the truth to be a truth that *you* like. You want it to be a pretty little truth that fits what you already believe!
All dwarfs have beards and wear up to twelve layers of clothing. Gender is more or less optional.
The smug mask of virtue triumphant could be almost as horrible as the face of wickedness revealed.
This is a lovely party, " said the Bursar to a chair, "I wish I was here.
Blessings be on this house, " Granny said, perfunctorily. It was always a good opening remark for a witch. It concentrated people's minds on what other things might be on this house.
And people think she killed him?" said Miss Tick. She sighed. "They probably think she cooked him in the oven, or somet
You couldn't escape the pointy hat, though. There was nothing magical about a pointy hat except that it said that the woman underneath it was a witch. People paid attention to a pointy hat.
The English, by and large, being a crass and indolent race, were not as keen on burning women as other countries in Europe.
Even the pious Scots, locked throughout history in a long-drawn-out battle with their arch-enemies the Scots, managed a few burnings to while away the long winter evenings.
We ain’t going to curse anyone, ” said Granny firmly. “It hardly ever works if they don’t know you’ve done it.
We got the spell exactly right. Except for the ingredients. And most of the poetry. And it probably wasn’t the right time. And Gytha took most of it home for the cat, which couldn’t of been proper.
At last the magic caught, and she managed to vault clumsily onto it before it trundled into the night sky as gracefully as a duck with one wing missing.
Gossiping's part of witchcraft, ' said Tiffany. 'They're checking to see if they've gone batty yet.
But a girl starting out in life might well say to herself: 'Is this it? You worked hard and denied yourself things and what you got at the end was hard work and self-denial?
Here you are. Would you like some pickles?”“Pickles gives me the wind something awful.”“In that case—”“Oh, I wasn’t saying no, ” Mistress Weatherwax said, taking two large pickled cucumbers.
the whole point of the wish business was to see to it that what the client got was exactly what he asked for and exactly what he didn't really want.
The gods, " he said. "Imprisoned in a thought. And perhaps they were never more than a dream.