3,122 Quotes by Terry Pratchett

Inzwischen brannte die ganze Innenstadt von Morpork. Die reicheren und ehrenwerteren Bürger von Ankh auf der anderen Seite des Flusses reagierten ausgesprochen tapfer und mutig auf diese bedrohliche Situation, indem sie in fieberhafter Eile die Brücken zerstörten.

Ich habe solche Angst vor euch, daß sich mein Rückgrat in Brei verwandelt. Allerdings leide ich derzeit an einer Überdosis des Entsetzens. Ich meine, wenn ich mich davon erholt habe, habe ich bestimmt Gelegenheit, mich angemessen vor euch zu fürchten.

It was nice to hear the voices of little children at play, provided you took care to be far enough away not to hear what they were actually saying.

The Empire's got something worse than whips all right. It's got obedience. Whips in the soul. They obey anyone who tells them what to do. Freedom just means being told what to do by someone different.

No matter how fast light travels it finds the darkness has always got there first, and is waiting for it.

You can't be loony and rich. You've got to be eccentric if you're rich.

Shut up sergeant. You're a free troll. That's an order"Sam Vimes

You know it’s going to be Mary the Maid, or someone like her, and there’s going to be two men and she will end up with the nice one, and there has to be misunderstandings, and they never do anything more than kiss and it’s absolutely guaranteed that, for example, an exciting civil war or an invasion by trolls or even a scene with any cooking in it is not going to happen. The best you can expect is a thunderstorm.

The face you wear in a battlefield should be a solemn one until the time when things are cleaned up and the real world drips its way in.