3,122 Quotes by Terry Pratchett

Actually, we'd have once chance" .... Even if it's a million to one chance, ma'am." "That's all very well," said Nanny, "but what you're saying is, for every Mr Ridcully that survives tonight's work, 999,999 are going to get killed?""Yes, but I'm not bothered about those other buggers." said Ridcully "They can look after themselves. Serve 'em right for not inviting me to their weddings.

He had to admit that this boy looked like good wizard material. In other words, he was thin, gangling, pale from reading disturbing books in unhealthy rooms, and had watery eyes like two lightly poached eggs....Wizards are martyrs to things like asthma and flat feet; it somehow seems to give them their drive.

My father always said, he said, “Do not peddle in the affairs of wizards...

For several years he hadn't moved outside a large, airy room, but this was OK, because he spent most of his time inside his own head in any case. There's a certain type of person it's very hard to imprison.

Raising the flag and singing the anthem are, while somewhat suspicious, not in themselves acts of treason.

The aristocrats, if such they could be called, generally hated the whole concept of the train on the basis that it would encourage the lower classes to move about and not always be available.

Lot of damn mixin' things up and saying, hey, what'll happen if we add a drop of the yellow stuff, and then goin' around without yer eyebrows for a fortnight.

Sometimes glass glitters more than diamonds because it has more to prove.

Una buena librería es, en realidad, un discreto agujero negro que sabe leer.