3,122 Quotes by Terry Pratchett

There are times when the best writing you can do is to go for a walk or drive, a long drive is ideal.

Vimes stalked gloomily through the crowded streets, feeling like the only pickled onion in a fruit salad.

I was a very keen reader of science fiction.

So, mistletoe, in fact, symbolizes mistletoe.

Knowing how bad you could be is a great encouragement to being good.

Priests were metal-reinforced overshoes. They saved your soles. This is an Assassin joke.

And no practical definition of freedom would be complete without the freedom to take the consequences. Indeed, it is the freedom upon which all the others are based.

They were also slightly less intelligent than he was. This is a quality you should always pray for in your would-be murderer.

A lot hinges on the fact that, in most circumstances, people are not allowed to hit you with a mallet. They put up all kinds of visible and invisible signs that say, 'Do not do this' in the hope that it'll work, but if it doesn't, then they shrug, because there is, really, no real mallet at all.