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Fear generates big profits.
— Terry Pratchett
All dwarfs have beards and wear up to twelve layers of clothing. Gender is more or less optional.
— Terry Pratchett
Carpe Jugulum," read Agnes aloud. "That's ... well, Carpe Diem is 'Sieze the Day,' so this means-" "Go for the throat — Terry Pratchett
The sweater was much easier to climb.
— Terry Pratchett
It makes you wonder if there is anything to astrology after all.' 'Oh, there is,' said Susan. 'Delusion, wishful thinking and gullibility.
— Terry Pratchett
Sometimes what is legal isn't what is right, and sometimes it needs a witch to tell the difference.
— Terry Pratchett
Galder tried to shout, but his voice refused to come out.
— Terry Pratchett
They're fascinated, and fascinated people spend money.
— Terry Pratchett
-Oh yes? Can you identify yourself? -Certainly. I'd know me anywhere.
— Terry Pratchett
There is no hope for the future, said Death
— Terry Pratchett
- DON'T WORRY, IT WON'T BE FOREVER. - Good. - IT MAY SEEM LIKE FOREVER.
— Terry Pratchett
Its the same everywhere. If you want big grief, look to the ladies.
— Terry Pratchett
She'd read the dictionary all the way through. No one told her you weren't supposed to.
— Terry Pratchett
Esk felt that bravery was called for, but on a night like this bravery lasted only as long as a candle stayed alight.
— Terry Pratchett
The presence of those seeking the truth is infinitely to be preferred to the presence of those who think they've found it.
— Terry Pratchett
Peace?' said Vetinari. 'Ah, yes, defined as period of time to allow for preparation for the next war.
— Terry Pratchett
Who'd want a pony when you could have the whole universe? It was far more interesting and you didn't have to muck it out once a week.
— Terry Pratchett
Andrews had probably been some innocent and hospitable person of a psychic disposition who had simply been overwhelmed by the colonizing souls.
— Terry Pratchett
We all have our funny little ways. Except me, obviously.
— Terry Pratchett
Revenge is not redress. Revenge is a wheel, and it turns backwards.
— Terry Pratchett
At least I know I'm bewildered about the really fundamental and important facts of the universe.
— Terry Pratchett
"Out of Print" is bookseller speak for "We can't be hedgehogged".
— Terry Pratchett
Fate can be one mean god at times.
— Terry Pratchett
A good motto in life, he'd reckoned, was: don't eat anything that glows.
— Terry Pratchett
For some reason, humans needed things that weren't true.
— Terry Pratchett
Certainly I have no faith in Jehovah, although I think it quite likely that Jesus Christ, as a preacher and a wise man, did indeed exist.
— Terry Pratchett
Why did thee call that hell-goat Mephistopheles? asked McTavish one day.
— Terry Pratchett
Live in dreams for too long and ye go mad - ye can never wake up prop'ly, ye can never get the hang o' reality again.
— Terry Pratchett
I don't really plan. I'm almost intuitive about things.
— Terry Pratchett
Well, he thought, so this is diplomacy. It's lying, only for a better class of people.
— Terry Pratchett
Your own brain ought to have the decency to be on your side!
— Terry Pratchett
Occasionally a few bubbles would eructate to the surface like the ghosts of beans on bath night.
— Terry Pratchett
DO NOT PUT ALL YOUR TRUST IN ROOT VEGETABLES. WHAT THINGS SEEM TO BE MAY NOT BE WHAT THEY ARE.-Death — Terry Pratchett
How do they rise up?
— Terry Pratchett
My personal theory is that he has a very firm grasp upon reality, it's simply not a reality the rest of us have ever met before.
— Terry Pratchett
The enemy isn't men, or women, it's bloody stupid people and no one has the right to be stupid.
— Terry Pratchett
Lots of people in history have only done their jobs and look at the trouble they caused
— Terry Pratchett
That doesn't sound very reliable to me," said the druid nastily. "How can a book know what day it is? Paper can't count.
— Terry Pratchett
There was always something that you had to do before you could do the thing you wanted to do and even then you might get it wrong.
— Terry Pratchett
There was always something that needed transferring from A to B or, of course, to the bottom of the C.Any — Terry Pratchett
I can teach you a lesson you won't forget in a hurry
— Terry Pratchett
. . . Mrs. Arcanum considered foreign parts only marginally less unspeakable than private parts. . .
— Terry Pratchett
It's still magic even if you know how it's done.
— Terry Pratchett
Oo, you are so sharp you'll cut yourself one of these days
— Terry Pratchett
I used to think that I was stupid, and then I met philosophers.
— Terry Pratchett
Esk wouldn't have known what a collective noun was if it had spat in her eye, but she knew there was a herd of goats and a coven of witches.
— Terry Pratchett
You'll learn there is another rule. Esme's obeyed it all her life." "And what's that?" "When you break rules, break 'em good and hard," said
— Terry Pratchett
Knowledge is dangerous, which is why governments often clamp down on people who can think thoughts above a certain caliber.
— Terry Pratchett
And, as always happens, and happens far too soon, the strange and wonderful becomes a memory and a memory becomes a dream. Tomorrow it's gone.
— Terry Pratchett
You're wondering if I really would slit your throat. To tell the truth, I don't know either, but think of the fun we could have finding out.
— Terry Pratchett
You made a choice, you get what you choose.
— Terry Pratchett
Do my thoughts just dream of me?
— Terry Pratchett
Welcome to fear, said Moist to himself. It's hope, turned inside out. You know it can't go wrong, you're sure it can't go wrong ... But it might.
— Terry Pratchett
Fire is easy to work with if you keep your mind clear, but pain ... pain fights back. Pain is alive. Pain is the enemy.
— Terry Pratchett
swimming the Djel was as feasible as nailing fog to the wall. He
— Terry Pratchett
Vimes's lack of interest in other people's children was limitless.
— Terry Pratchett
Most gods throw dice, but Fate plays chess, and you don't find out til too late that he's been playing with two queens all along.
— Terry Pratchett
The launch of 'Tomb Raider III' was actually my first experience of the games industry.
— Rhianna Pratchett
There's some things we can't think because we don't know the words.
— Terry Pratchett
But magic has a habit of lying low, like a rake in the grass. Winter
— Terry Pratchett
And the woman in the vegetable shop, she oppresses me all the time.
— Terry Pratchett
Humans need fantasy to be human.
— Terry Pratchett
A mirror can contain the reflection of the whole universe, a whole skyful of stars in a piece of silvered glass no thicker than a breath.
— Terry Pratchett
Being a buisance is not something you should die of.
— Terry Pratchett
Romancin' is verra important, ye ken. Basically it's a way the boy can get close to the girl wi'oot her attackin' him and scratchin' his eyes oot.
— Terry Pratchett
The trouble was that he was talking in philosophy but they were listening in gibberish.
— Terry Pratchett
WHAT THINGS SEEM MAY NOT BE WHAT THEY ARE,
— Terry Pratchett
Well, got any relish?" "No, ma'am." "Tomato ketchup?" "No, ma'am." "And they call this a gormay paradise,
— Terry Pratchett
In the words of the philosopher Sceptum, the founder of my profession: am I going to get paid for this?
— Terry Pratchett
Did I do anything last night that suggested I was sane?
— Terry Pratchett
In short, what people think they want is news, but what they really crave is olds.
— Terry Pratchett
They were born into a world that was against them in a thousand little ways, and then devoted most of their energies to making it worse.
— Terry Pratchett
Nevertheless, the human brain, which survives by hoping from one second to another, will always endeavor to put off the moment of truth. Moist
— Terry Pratchett
He quite liked the English. They tended to say sorry a lot, which was quite understandable given their heritage and the crimes of their ancestors.
— Terry Pratchett
When people say things are a lot more complicated than that, they means they're getting worried that they won't like the truth.
— Terry Pratchett
Bugrit! Millennium Hand and Shrimp
— Terry Pratchett
Humanity's a nice place to visit, but you wouldn't want to live there.
— Terry Pratchett
Ach, noo yer talkin' oour language," said Rob Anybody. "Not ... quite," said Tiffany.
— Terry Pratchett
The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.
— Terry Pratchett
And no cheating, Lady." he said."But who could cheat Fate?" she asked. He shrugged."No-one. Yet everyone tries. — Terry Pratchett
The turtle moves.
— Terry Pratchett
How do you get shadows when there's no sun in the sky? she thought, because it was better to think about things like this than all the other, much
— Terry Pratchett
If he could get the idea of paper money past them then he was home and, if not dry, then at least merely Moist.
— Terry Pratchett
Nothing wrong with whips and needles, in moderation.
— Terry Pratchett
Ninety percent of true love is acute, ear-burning embarrassment.
— Terry Pratchett
He was the sort of person who stood on mountaintops during thunderstorms in wet copper armor shouting All the Gods are bastards!
— Terry Pratchett
No one knows how to do officering, Fred. That's why they're officers. If they knew anything, they'd be sergeants.
— Terry Pratchett
He preached as if he had a flaming sword in his hand. Bats fell out of the rafters. The organ started up by itself. The water sloshed in the font.
— Terry Pratchett
The gods," he said. "Imprisoned in a thought. And perhaps they were never more than a dream.
— Terry Pratchett
The four lesser apocalyptical horsemen of Panic, Bewilderment, Ignorance, and Shouting took control of the room,
— Terry Pratchett
Why are we talking about this good and evil? They're just names for sides. We know that.
— Neil Gaiman
I have, before now, waited for a pen to perform a macro.
— Terry Pratchett
