3,122 Quotes by Terry Pratchett

Ordinary fortune-tellers tell you what you want to happen; witches tell you what’s going to happen whether you want it to or not. Strangely enough, witches tend to be more accurate but less popular.

It was so loud and so deep, it wasn't really sound at all, just something that turned the air hard and then hit you with it.

Many an ancient lord's last words have been, 'You can't kill me because I've got magic aaargh.'

I have no use for people who have learned the limits of the possible.

Other people salted away money for their old age, but Nanny preferred to accumulate memories.

When I was a kid, I read the science-fiction shelves, and I read the fantasy shelves.

Are you a philosopher? Where's your sponge?

You see the lighted windows and what you want to think is that there may be many interesting stories behind them, but what you know is that really there are just dull, dull souls, mere consumers of food, who think their instincts are emotions and their tiny lives of more account than a whisper of wind.

It is possible to live well with dementia and write best-sellers 'like wot I do.