Terry Pratchett Quotes

A city like Ankh-Morpork was only two meals away from chaos at the best of times.

A horse's skull always looks scary, even if someone has put lipstick on it.

A month went by quickly. It didn't want to hang around.

Ach, people are always telling us not to do things said Rob Anybody, that's how we ken the most interesting things to do.

Agnes felt that beauty was even more likely to be in the eye of the beholder if the feet of the beholder were on something solid. At ten thousand feet up, the eye of the beholder tends to water.

All he knew was that you couldn't hope to try for the big stuff, like world peace and happiness, but you might just about be able to achieve some tiny deed that'd make the world, in a small way, a bet...

Although she was aware that somewhere under her complicated strata of vests and petticoats there was some skin, that didn't mean to say she approved of it.

An Assassin, a real Assassin, had to look like one - black clothes, hood, boots, and all. If they could wear any clothes, any disguise, then what could anyone do but spend all day in a small room with...

An' writin' even goes on sayin' a man's wurds after he's ! Ye cannae tell me that's right!

And Tiffany knew that if a witch started thinking of anyone as anything, that would be the first step on a well-worn path that could lead to, oh, to poisoned apples, spinning wheels, and a too-small...

And all the stories had, somewhere, the witch. The wicked old witch.And Tiffany had thought: Where's the evidence?

And it came to pass that in time the Great God Om spake unto Brutha, the Chosen One: Psst!

And no practical definition of freedom would be complete without the freedom to take the consequences. Indeed, it is the freedom upon which all the others are based.

And personalities define themselves in terms of other personalities.

And the Nac Mac Feegle are, well, they’re like tiny little Scottish Smurfs who have seen Braveheart altogether too many times.

And the nice thing about a stake through the heart was that it also worked on non-vampires.

And then Jack chopped down what was the world's last beanstalk, adding murder and ecological terrorism to the theft, enticement, and trespass charges already mentioned, and all the giant's children di...

And therefore education at the University mostly worked by the age-old method of putting a lot of young people in the vicinity of a lot of books and hoping that something would pass from one to the ot...

And these are your reasons, my lord?Do you think I have others? said Lord Vetinari. My motives, as ever, are entirely transparent.Hughnon reflected that 'entirely transparent' meant either that you co...

And visitors say: how does such a big city exist? What keeps it going? Since it's got a river you can chew, where does the drinking water come from? What is, in fact, the basis of its civic economy? H...