Terry Pratchett Quotes - Page 4

The sun rose slowly, as if it wasn't sure it was worth all the effort.

Bursar?"
"Yes, Archchancellor?"
"You ain't a member of some secret society or somethin', are you?"
"Me? No, Archchancellor."
"Then it'd be a damn good idea to take your underpants off your head.

I commend my soul to any god that can find it.

Rincewind could scream for mercy in nineteen languages, and just scream in another forty-four.

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 a loaded crossbow pointed at the door?

I meant," said Ipslore bitterly, "what is there in this world that truly makes living worthwhile?"
Death thought about it.
CATS, he said eventually. CATS ARE NICE.

Perhaps it would be simpler if you just did what you're told and didn't try to understand things.

I'd rather be a rising ape than a falling angel.

It was the living who ignored the strange and wonderful, because life was too full of the boring and mundane.

The truth may be out there, but the lies are inside your head.

A lie can run round the world before the truth has got its boots on.

I should have learned this, she thought. I wanted to learn fire, and pain, but I should have learned people.

When people say things are a lot more complicated than that, they means they're getting worried that they won't like the truth.

At such times the universe gets a little closer to us. They are strange times, times of beginnings and endings. Dangerous and powerful. And we feel it even if we don't know what it is. These times are not necessarily good, and not necessarily bad. In fact, what they are depends on what *we* are.

WHO KNOWS WHAT EVIL LURKS IN THE HEART OF MEN?

The Death of Rats looked up from the feast of the potato. SQUEAK, he said.

Death waved a hand dismissively. WELL, YES, OBVIOUSLY ME, he said. I JUST WONDERED IF THERE WAS ANYONE ELSE.

It's not worth doing something unless you were doing something that someone, somewhere, would much rather you weren't doing.

I’m not superstitious. I’m a witch. Witches aren’t superstitious. We are what people are superstitious of.

We are here and it is now. The way I see it is, after that, everything tends towards guesswork.

The trouble was that he was talking in philosophy but they were listening in gibberish.

When in doubt, choose to live.