Terry PratchettI don't think I've drunk enough beer to understand that. ✨ Terry Pratchett (1998). The Last Continent: A Discworld Novel, Harpercollins371ReadingThought
Terry PratchettYou are in favour of the common people?” said Dragon mildly. The common people?” said Vimes. “They’re nothing special. They’re no different from the rich and powerful except they’… ▶371HumanityPolitics
Terry PratchettLook at Satan. Created as an angel, grows up to be the Great Adversary. Hey, if you’re going to go on about genetics, you might as well say the kid will grow up to be an angel. Af… ▶371Death
Terry PratchettThe thing about words is that meanings can twist just like a snake, and if you want to find snakes look for them behind words that have changed their meaning. ✨ Terry Pratch… ▶372DeathPhilosophyReading
Terry PratchettIgor?' said Moist. 'You have an Igor?' Oh, yes,' said Hubert. 'That's how I get this wonderful light. They know the secret of storing lightning in jars! But don't let that worry y… ▶372Truth
Terry PratchettCats don't hunt seals. They would if they knew what they were and where to find them. But they don't, so that's all right. ✨ The Unadulterated Cat. Book by Terry Pratchett, … ▶372Reading
Terry PratchettI particularly admire are Mark Twain and Jerome K. Jerome who wrote in a certain tone of voice which was humane and understanding of humanity, but always ready to annotate its lit… ▶361HumanityReadingThought
Terry PratchettFantasy is an exercise bicycle for the mind. It might not take you anywhere, but it tones up the muscles that can. ✨ Biography / Personal Quotes. www.imdb.com.372Thought
Terry Pratchett[Y]ou weren't born with a talent for witchcraft: it didn't come easily; you worked hard at it because you wanted it. You forced the world to give it to you, no matter the price, a… ▶372HumanityTime
Terry PratchettIT'S THE EXPRESSION ON THEIR LITTLE FACES I LIKE, said the Hogfather. You mean sort of fear and awe and not knowing whether to laugh or cry or wet their pants? YES. NOW THAT IS WH… ▶372HumorSadness
Terry PratchettI know it’s not the right thing to say to a lady, miss, but you are sweating like a pig! My mother always said that horses sweat, men perspire, and ladies merely glow… Is that so?… ▶372Death
Terry PratchettAnkh-Morpork! Pearl of cities! This is not a completely accurate description, of course — it was not round and shiny — but even its worst enemies would agree that if you had to li… ▶373DeathPhilosophy
Terry PratchettYou were safe on a troll. Anyone wanting to mug a troll would have to use a building on a stick.373Love
Terry PratchettSeeing, contrary to popular wisdom, isn't believing. It's where belief stops, because it isn't needed any more. ✨ Terry Pratchett (2008). Pyramids: (Discworld Novel 7), p.21… ▶373PhilosophyReading
Terry PratchettDivers alarums and excursions', she read, uncertainly. 'That means lots of terrible happenings, said Magrat. 'You always put that in plays.' Alarums and what?', said Nanny Ogg, wh… ▶351HopeReading
Terry PratchettColon thought Carrot was simple. Carrot often struck people as simple. And he was. Where people went wrong was thinking that simple meant the same thing as stupid.351HumanityThought
Terry PratchettGoodness is about what you do. Not who you pray to. ✨ Terry Pratchett in quotes: 15 of the best. www.theguardian.com. March 12, 2015.373Thought
Terry PratchettThe Truth Shall Make Ye Fret. [Fred. Free.]351Truth
Terry PratchettSome of them wanted to sell me snake oil and I'm not necessarily going to dismiss all of these, as I have never found a rusty snake.373Humor
Terry PratchettRincewind gave his fingers a long shocked stare, as one might regard a gun that has been hanging on the wall for decades and has suddenly gone off and perforated the cat. ✨ … ▶362Reading
Terry PratchettI don’t see why it matters what is written. Not when it’s about people. It can always be crossed out. ✨ Good Omens. Book By Neil Gaiman, Terry Pratchett, 1990.362HumanityReading
Terry PratchettMost modern fantasy just rearranges the furniture in Tolkien's attic.374Humanity
Terry PratchettRaising the flag and singing the anthem are, while somewhat suspicious, not in themselves acts of treason.374Love
Terry PratchettEight years involved with the nuclear industry have taught me that when nothing can possible go wrong and every avenue has been covered, then is the time to buy a house on the nex… ▶341Time
Terry PratchettFreedom without limits is just a word.341Philosophy
Terry PratchettWhat is normal? Normal was yesterday. If you lose a leg, one day you're hopping around on one leg, so you know the difference. ✨ Terry Pratchett: 'I'm open to joy.… ▶363Reading
Terry PratchettHis progress through life was hampered by his tremendous sense of his own ignorance, a disability which affects all too few. ✨ Terry Pratchett (2009). Maskerade: (Discworld … ▶352LifeReading
Terry PratchettBecause no man wants to be a coward in front of a cheese.341Humanity
Terry PratchettSometimes I think a man could wander across the disc all his life and not see everything there is to see,' said Twoflower. 'And now it seems there are lots of other worlds as well… ▶341DeathLifeReading
Terry PratchettDown there - he said - are people who will follow any dragon, worship any god, ignore any inequity. All out of a kind of humdrum, everyday badness. Not the really high, creative l… ▶363HumanityReading