3,122 Quotes by Terry Pratchett

Can't we do anything about it?" - "No!" - "Then I can't see the sense in panicking", said Twoflower calmly

Vimes was hazy on religion. He attended Watch funerals and went to such religious events as the proper fulfilling of the office of Commander entailed, but as for the rest . . . well, you saw things sometimes that made it impossible to believe not only in gods, but also in common humanity and your own eyes.

Then Tak looked upon the stone and it was trying to come alive, and Tak smiled, and wrote All things strive.And for the service the stone had given, he fashioned it into the first Troll, and delighted in the life that came unbidden.

So the fire and its subsequent flood, wich destroyed everything left that was not flammable and added a particularly noisome flux to the survivors'problems, did not mark its end. Rather it was a fiery punctuation mark, a coal-like comma, or salamander semicolon, in a continuing story.

Nanny Ogg was about to say: What? You mean not compliant and self-effacing like what you is, Esme? But she stopped herself. You didn't juggle matches in a fireworks factory.

He asked you to shoot at people who weren’t shooting back,” growled Vimes, striding forward, “That makes him insane, wouldn’t you say?”“They are throwing stones, Sarge,” said Colon.“So? Stay out of range. They’ll get tired before we do.

Like many people of limited intellectual scope, Snouty did take what he could do very seriously.

Denn", so der trollische Philosoph Plateau, "wenn du verstehen willst einen Feind, du musst gehen eine Meile in seinen Schuhen. Wenn er dann ist noch immer dein Feind, du bist entfernt wenigstens eine Meile, und er keine Schuhe hat,

It wasn't by eliminating the impossible that you got at the truth, however improbable; it was by the much harder process of eliminating the possibilities. You worked away, patiently asking questions and looking hard at things. You walked and talked, and in your heart you just hoped like hell that some bugger's nerve'd crack and he'd give himself up.