3,122 Quotes by Terry Pratchett

...You want a special truth. *You* want the truth to be a truth that *you* like. You want it to be a pretty little truth that fits what you already believe!

He wanted to say: how could you be so nice and yet so dumb? The best thing you could do with the peasents was to leave them alone. Let them get on with it. When people who can read and write start fighting for those who can't, you just end up with another kind of stupidity. If you want to help them, build a big library or something somewhere and leave the door open.

Words have power, you understand? It is in the nature of our universe. Our library itself distorts time and space on quite a grand scale. Well, when the Post Office started accumulating letters, it was storing words. In fact, what was being created was what we call a 'gevaisa', a tomb of living words.

Learning how not to do things is as hard as learning how to do them. Harder, maybe. There'd be a sight more frogs in this world if I didn't know how not to turn people into them. And big pink balloons, too.

Drinks like this tend to get called Traffic Lights or Rainbow's Revenge or, in places where truth is more highly valued, Hello and Good-Bye, Mr. Brain Cell.

Combien de gars se sont arrêtés de boire comme des trous à l'âge de vingt ans pour empêcher un inconnu de mourir d'une cirrhose à l'âge de quarante ?

People don't want to see what can't possibly exist.'- Mort

Do you want to find her book to see if she marries you?""I've read it, and she's dead," said Mort. "But only technically. I mean, not really dead.""Good, otherwise that would be necromancy.

NO ONE GETS PARDONED FOR LIVING.