Terry Pratchett Quotes

DO I DETECT A NOTE OF UNSEASONAL GRUMPINESS? said Death. NO SUGAR PIGGYWIGGY FOR YOU, ALBERT.

Demons have existed on the Discworld for at least as long as the gods, who in many ways they closely resemble. The difference is basically the same as that between terrorists and freedom fighters.

Despite rumor, Death isn't cruel--merely terribly, terribly good at his job.

Destiny is important, see, but people go wrong when they think it controls them. It's the other way around.

Did she help people? Miss Level added.......She made them help one another, she said. She made them help themselves.......Miss Level sighed. Not many of us are that good, she said.

Do you need an excuse to have a war? I mean, who for? Can't you just say You got lots of cash and land, but I've got a big sword, so divvy up right now, chop chop.

Do you think there’s anything to eat in this forest?Yes, said the wizard bitterly, us.

Don't be smart. Smart is only a polished version of dumb. Try intelligence. It will surely see you through.

Don't look back! Why not? Because I just did! Run faster!

Don't start weaving a social hypothesis in front of an angry woman holding a blade.

Don't you want to die nobly for a just cause?I'd much rather live quietly for one.

Don’t trust the cannibal just ’cos he’s usin’ a knife and fork!

Education had been easy. Learning things had been harder.

Even the blind and meek and voiceless have gods.

Everything starts somewhere, although many physicists disagree.

Everything starts somewhere, though many physicists disagree. But people have always been dimly aware of the problem with the start of things. They wonder how the snowplough driver gets to work, or ho...

Fair? said the Sea Queen. She moved forward. Om felt her all around him.There’s no such thing, she said. Life’s like a beach. And then you die.

Find the story, Granny Weatherwax always said. She believed that the world was full of story shapes. If you let them, they controlled you. But if you studied them, if you found out about them... you c...

For example, the dwarfs found out how to turn lead into gold by doing it the hard way. The difference between that and the easy way is that the hard way works.

For the enemy is not Troll, nor it is Dwarf, but it is the baleful, the malign, the cowardly, the vessels of hatred, those who do a bad thing and call it good.