Terry Pratchett Quotes

Overexcited? No! I'm getting very calmly worried that someone might shoot me!

Samuel Vimes dreamed about Clues. He had a jaundiced view of Clues. He instinctively distrusted them. They got in the way. And he distrusted the kind of person who’d take one look at another man and s...

Rincewind could scream for mercy in nineteen languages, and just scream in another forty-four.

That's the way it was. Privilege, which just means 'private law.' Two types of people laugh at the law; those that break it and those that make it.

We are as gods to beasts of the field. We order the time of their birth and the time of their death. Between times, we have a duty.

The important thing about having lots of things to remember is that you’ve got to go somewhere afterwards where you can remember them, you see? You’ve got to stop. You haven’t really been anywhere unt...

I'm trying to remember how you tell the time by looking at the sun. -I should leave it for a while, it's too bright to see the numbers at the moment.

NAUGHTY AND NICE? said Death. BUT IT'S EASY TO BE NICE IF YOU'RE RICH. IS THIS FAIR?Albert wanted to argue. He wanted to say, Really? In that case, how come so many of the rich buggers is bastards? An...

Did I do anything last night that suggested I was sane?

A book has been taken. A book has been taken? You summoned the Watch, Carrot drew himself up proudly, because someone's taken a ? You think that's worse than murder?The Librarian gave him the kind of...

A witch ought never to be frightened in the darkest forest, Granny Weatherwax had once told her, because she should be sure in her soul that the most terrifying thing in the forest was her.

You know what?' said Vimes aloud. 'This is going to be the world's first democratically killed dragon. One man, one stab.'Then you've got to stop them. You can't let them kill it!' said Lady Ramkin.Vi...

It's going to look pretty good, then, isn't it, said War testily, the One Horseman and Three Pedestrians of the Apocalypse.

She never sent the castle to sleep, said Granny, that’s just an old wife’s tale. She just stirred up time a little. It’s not as hard as people think, everyone does it all the time. It’s like rubber, i...

For a witch stands on the very edge of everything, between the light and the dark, between life and death, making choices, making decisions so that others may pretend no decisions have even been neede...

One day I'll work out what it is you are saying, my lad, and then you'll be in trouble.

My name is immaterial,' she said.That's a pretty name,' said Rincewind.

Religion is not an exact science. Sometimes, of course, neither is science.

Just because it's not nice doesn't mean it's not miraculous.

Do you know how wizards like to be buried?Yes!Well, how?Granny Weatherwax paused at the bottom of the stairs.Reluctantly.