Terry Pratchett Quotes

But I don't in reincarnation! he protested.SQUEAK.And this, Mr Pounder understood with absolute rodent clarity, meant: reincarnation believes in .

But I think you have a right to know what it is you’re not being told.

But in cynicism and general world weariness, which is a sort of carbon dating of the personality, he was about seven thousand years old.

But is all this true? said Brutha.Didactylos shrugged. Could be. Could be. We are here and it is now. The way I see it is, after that, everything tends towards guesswork.You mean you don't KNOW it's t...

But it’s what I call The Valley Filled with Clouds technique. You’re at the edge of the valley, and there is a church steeple, and there is a tree, and there is a rocky outcrop, but the rest of it is...

But most of all in the last couple of years I have been listening. As a journalist, I learned to listen. It is amazing how much people will tell you if you listen in the right way. Rob, my PA, says th...

But she was too big to be a thief, too honest to be an assassin, too intelligent to be a wife, and too proud to enter the only other female profession generally available.

But that was just it - hate was exactly the right word. Hate is a force of attraction. Hate is just love with its back turned.

But then science is nothing but a series of questions that lead to more questions.

But we don't do things like that! said Vimes. You can't go around arresting the Thieves' Guild. I mean, we'd be at it all day!

By the pricking of my thumbs, something wicked this way comes.[...]By the stinking of my nose, something wicked this way goes[.][...]By the blinking of my eyes, something wicked this way dies.

Cake is not the issue here.

Captain Roberts went to Heaven, which wasn't everything that he'd expected, and as the receding water gently marooned the wreck of the on the forest floor, only one soul was left alive. Or possibly t...

Cats are like witches. They don’t fight to kill, but to win. There is a difference. There’s no point in killing an opponent. That way, they won’t know they’ve lost, and to be a real winner you have to...

Certain things have to happen before other things. Gods play games with the fates of men. But first they have to get all the pieces on the board, and look all over the place for the dice.

Character assassination. What a wonderful idea. Ordinary assassination only works once, but this one works every day.

Coppers were always outnumbered, so being a copper only worked when people let it work. If they refocused and realized you were just another standard idiot with a pennyworth of metal for a badge, you...

Corporal Nobbs, he rasped, why are you kicking people when they’re down? Safest way, sir, said Nobby. Nobby had long ago been told about fighting fair and not striking a fallen opponent, and had then...

Creators aren't gods. They make places, which is quite hard. It's men that make gods. This explains a lot.

Crivens!