3,122 Quotes by Terry Pratchett

All witches who'd lived in her cottage were bookish types. They thought you could see life through books but you couldn't, the reason being that the words got in the way.

He couldn't remember having been seventeen; it was something that must have happened to him while he was busy. But it made him feel like he imagined it felt like when you were seventeen, which was like having a permanent red-hot vest on under your skin.

«Dev'essere veramente bello, laggiù» disse la più giovane «Perché?» «Perché nessuno vuole mai tornare».

The way you'd know Vetinari was keeping an eye on you would be by turning around very quickly and seeing no one at all.

Dock-a-loodle-fod!"Now that the memory problem was solved, there was only the dyslexia to worry about.

Moist waited. Lord Vetinari could outstare a statue and make even a statue start to feel nervous and confess. Moist's counter was a fetching grin, which he knew annoyed Vetinari beyond measure, and there was absolute silence in the Oblong Office while blank stare and cheery grin battled it out for supremacy in some other dimension.

We play and are played and the best we can hope for is to do it with style.

One of my predecessors used to have people torn to death by wild tortoises. It was not a quick death.

Mister Lipwig, the world lives between those who say it cannot be done and those who say that it can. And in my experience, those who say that it can be done are usually telling the truth. It's just a matter of thinking creatively.