Terry Pratchett Quotes

The moments that change your life are the ones that happen suddenly, like the one where you die.

The only way to get something to turn up when you need it is to need it to turn up.

The phrase 'Someone ought to do something' was not, by itself, a helpful one. People who used it added the rider 'and that someone is me'.

The reward for toil had been more toil. If you dug the best ditches, they gave you a bigger shovel.

The theater troubled her. It had a magic of its own, one that didn’t belong to her, one that wasn’t in her control. It changed the world, and said things were otherwise than they were. And it was wors...

The thing about witchcraft, said Mistress Weatherwax, is that it's not like school at all. First you get the test, and then afterward you spend years findin' out how you passed it. It's a bit like lif...

The truth isn't easily pinned to a page. In the bathtub of history the truth is harder to hold than the soap and much more difficult to find.

The wages of sin is death but so is the salary of virtue, and at least the evil get to go home early on Fridays.

There are very few starts. Oh, some things seem to be beginnings. The curtain goes up, the first pawn moves, the first shot is fired - but that's not the start. The play, the game, the war is just a l...

There were actual people in the world whose idea of heaven would be a chocolate cat.

There would be a price... But if you were worried about the price, then why were you in the shop?

Theres no stink more sorrorful than the stink of wet, burnt paper. It means: the end.

They shed a rather unpleasant glow that didn't so much illuminate, as the darkness.

They weren't looking at him as if he was their only hope. They were looking at him as if he was their Certainty.

This I choose to do. If there is a price, this I choose to pay. If it is my death, then I choose to die. Where this takes me, there I choose to go. I choose. This I choose to do.

This is Masher,' said Feeney. 'His father was a wild boar, his mother was surprised.

This is no way to treat a book, he said. Look, he's bent the spine right back. People always do that, they've got no idea of how to treat them.

Trouble is, just because things are obvious doesn't mean they're true.

Uncertainty is always uncertain, but the difficulty with people who rely on systems is that they begin to believe that nearly everything is in some way a system and therefore, sooner or later, they be...

Upstairs, in what had been until then the cash office, Young Sam slept peacefully in a makeshift bed. One day, Vimes hoped, he would be able to tell him that on one special night he'd been guarded by...