3,122 Quotes by Terry Pratchett

And at the other end of the bar the world is full of the other type of person, who has a broken glass, or a glass that has been carelessly knocked over (usually by one of the people calling for a larger glass) or who had no glass at all, because he was at the back of the crowd and had failed to catch the barman's eye.

Theres no stink more sorrorful than the stink of wet, burnt paper. It means: the end.

The English were notoriously unenthusiastic about burning witches. I suppose ours were too soggy.

Bringing about Armageddon can be dangerous. Do not attempt it in your own home.

YOU HAVE TO START OUT LEARNING TO BELIEVE THE LITTLE LIES. "So we can believe the big ones?" YES. JUSTICE. MERCY. DUTY. THAT SORT OF THING.

Winston Churchill said 'In war time, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies'. Any book called The Truth should therefore have one.

It was a backwards memory of an event in his future so terrifying that it had generated harmonics of fear all the way along his lifeline.

History always has a few tricks up its frayed sleeve. It's been around a long time.

Don't be smart. Smart is only a polished version of dumb. Try intelligence. It will surely see you through.