Pratchett Quotes
Pratchett Quote of the day
Why are we talking about this good and evil? They're just names for sides. We know that.
Coming back to where you started is not the same as never leaving.
I should have learned this, she thought. I wanted to learn fire, and pain, but I should have learned people.
There was no safety. There was no pride. All there was, was money. Everything became money, and money became everything. Money treated us as if we were things, and we died.
I've stolen books. They're the only thing worth taking that don't belong to you.
The key to having good scales is a healthy diet of venison when you’re just a wee dragon lad.
It is true that words have power, and one of the things they are able to do is get out of someone's mouth before the speaker has the chance to stop them.
The universe, they say, depended for its operation on the balance of four forces which they identified as charm, persuasion, uncertainty, and bloody-mindedness.
That's No'-as-big-as-Medium-Sized-Jock-but-bigger-than-Wee-Jock-Jock, mistress, ' said Not-as-big-as-Medium-Sized-Jock-but-bigger-than-Wee-Jock-Jock. 'Ye were one jock short, ' he added helpfully.
Gods didn’t mind atheists, if they were deep, hot, fiery, atheists like Simony, who spend their whole life hating gods for not existing. That sort of atheism was a rock. It was nearly belief …
Anger was a weapon to be honed and treasured and used only at the moment yielding most premium.
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.
It's supposed to be jolly, with mistletoe and holly... and other things ending in olly.
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.
That's the fashion. Fast as the speed of light, they say. Ha! It's got no soul, sir, no heart.
