3,122 Quotes by Terry Pratchett

In Ankh-Morpork you can be whoever you want to be and sometimes people laugh and sometimes they clap, and mostly and beautifully, they don't really care.

It is important that we know where we come from, because if you do not know where you come from, then you don't know where you are, and if you don't know where you are, you don't know where you're going. And if you don't know where you're going, you're probably going wrong.

Perhaps they saw nothing at all. Perhaps they saw what their minds were instructed to see, because the human brain is not equipped to see War, Famine, Pollution and Death when they don´t want to be seen, and has got so good at not seeing that it often menages not to see them even when they abound on every side.

It's like chess, you know. The Queen saves the King.

Do gems burn, I wonder? ‘Tis said they’re kin to coal.

Everywhere was connected to everywhere else, Pismire had said.

Could I please amend that suggestion? Could you not be there in the second darkest shadow one hour before midnight, to see who steps into the darkest shadow?

Falling down a flight of steps with a dagger in your back is a disease caused by unwise opening of the mouth.

She had heard it said that, before you could understand anybody, you needed to walk a mile in their shoes, which did not make a whole lot of sense, because probably AFTER you had walked a mile in their shoes, you would understand that they were chasing you and accusing you of the theft of a pair of shoes--although, of course, you could probably outrun them, owing to their lack of footwear.