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Discworld Quotes & Sayings

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Twoflower was a tourist, the first ever seen on the discworld. Tourist, Rincewind had decided, meant 'idiot'. — Terry Pratchett

Esme Weatherwax hadn't done nice. She'd done what was needed. — Terry Pratchett

The smug mask of virtue triumphant could be almost as horrible as the face of wickedness revealed. — Terry Pratchett

There are no maps. You can't map a sense of humor. — Terry Pratchett

Cake is not the issue here. — Terry Pratchett

What we're going to do is keep the peace. That's our job. We're not going to be heroes, we're just going to be ... normal. — Terry Pratchett

On the Kite, the situation was being 'workshopped'. This is the means by which people who don't know anything get together to pool their ignorance. — Terry Pratchett

Middle Earth. Vulcan. Pern. Arrakis. Magrathea. Discworld, Mid-World, Riverworld, Ringworld. Worlds upon worlds. — Ernest Cline

That just goes to show that you never know, although what it is we never know I suspect we'll never know. — Terry Pratchett

Not a man to mince words. People, yes. But not words. — Terry Crowley

I like the idea of democracy. You have to have someone everyone distrusts, — Terry Pratchett

I assure you I will not kill you," said Inigo.
"I know that," said Vimes. "But will you try? — Terry Pratchett

...she was definitely feeling several twinkles short of a glitter... — Terry Pratchett

SOD YOU, THEN, Death said. — Terry Pratchett

A good bookshop is just a genteel Black Hole that knows how to read. — Terry Pratchett

It's not gambling to play
against someone who's no good. It's common sense. — Terry Pratchett

Multiple exclamation marks,' he went on, shaking his head, 'are a sure sign of a diseased mind. — Terry Pratchett

HAVE YOU EVER BITTEN REDHOT ICE CUBE? THAT'S CURRY. — Terry Pratchett

Life could be horrible in the wrong trouser of time. — Terry Pratchett

Sometimes, Tiffany thought, I am so fed up with being young. — Terry Pratchett

The commander went, as they say in Ankh-Morpork, totally Librarian on them. — Terry Pratchett

If you invited a hedge wizard to a party, he would spend half the evening talking to your potted plant. And he would spend the other half listening. — Terry Pratchett

Most gods find it hard to walk and think at the same time. — Terry Pratchett

On the Disc the gods dealt severely with atheists. — Terry Pratchett

Open your eyes and then open your eyes again. — Terry Pratchett

All he had was nothing, but that was something, and now it had been taken away. — Terry Pratchett

If you must know, he said 'my goodness me, a walking potato — Terry Pratchett

Occasionally a few bubbles would eructate to the surface like the ghosts of beans on bath night. — Terry Pratchett

Rings try to find their way back to their owner. Someone ought to write a book about it. — Terry Pratchett

Vimes awoke with a noseful of camel. There are far worse awakenings, but not as many as you might think. — Terry Pratchett

Men marched away, Vimes. And men marched back. How glorious the battles would have been that they never had to fight! — Terry Pratchett

Look, sir, I know Angua. She's not the useless type. She doesn't stand there and scream helplessly. She makes other people do that. — Terry Pratchett

You can't find a hermit to teach you herming, because of course that rather spoils the whole thing. — Terry Pratchett

As we all know, the Discworld is a flat planet - like a geological pizza, but without the anchovies. — Terry Pratchett

I think it does Discworld good if I don't write about it all the time: sometimes you have to get it out of your system. — Terry Pratchett

We've got a lot of experience of not having any experience — Terry Pratchett

But too much reading had taken its toll. William found that he now thought of prayer as a sophisticated way of pleading with thunderstorms. — Terry Pratchett

There are no inconsistencies in the Discworld books; ocassionally, however, there are alternate pasts. — Terry Pratchett

Colon looked awkward, as if the bunched underwear of the past was tangling itself in the crotch of recollection. — Terry Pratchett

It would seem that you have no useful skill or talent whatsoever," he said. "Have you thought of going into teaching? — Terry Pratchett

I thought dwarfs loved gold," said Angua.
"They just say that to get it into bed. — Terry Pratchett

I'm sure it's all journalism [ ... ] It means it's true enough for now. — Terry Pratchett

I'm not a natural killer! See this? See what it says? I'm supposed to keep the peace, I am! If I kill people to do it, I'm reading the wrong manual! — Terry Pratchett

What can the harvest hope for ... — Terry Pratchett

I am death, not taxes. I turn up only once. — Terry Pratchett

In Ankh-Morpork even the shit have a street to itself," said Detritus, awe and wonder in his voice. "Truly, this a land of opportunity. — Terry Pratchett

Don't wish, Miss Tick had said. Do things. — Terry Pratchett

Never ask the tight-rope walker how he keeps his balance. if he stops to think about it, he falls off — Terry Pratchett

IN MY EXPERIENCE, SUSAN, WITHIN THEIR HEADS TOO MANY HUMANS SPEND A LOT OF TIME IN THE MIDDLE OF WARS THAT HAPPENED CENTURIES AGO. — Terry Pratchett

Welcome to fear, Moist said to himself. It's hope, turned inside out. — Terry Pratchett

It's like chess, you know. The Queen saves the King. — Terry Pratchett