3,122 Quotes by Terry Pratchett

We haven’t heard any stories like these, Beti!’ Bana gasped.‘Really? Oh, I’ve got a thousand and one of ’em.

Olé,” said Windle.“Oook?”“No, Not ‘with milk’,” said Windle.

What the hell. If you had to go, why not go with style?

A witch ought never to be frightened in the darkest forest, Granny Weatherwax had once told her, because she should be sure in her soul that the most terrifying thing in the forest was her.

Revenge is not redress. Revenge is a wheel, and it turns backwards.

What these sounds mean, he thought, is: I am alive and so are you. And we're all very worried that we might not be alive for much longer, so we'll just keep talking, because that's better than thinking.

Shoot the dictator and prevent the war? But the dictator is merely the tip of the whole festering boil of social pus from which dictators emerge; shoot one, and there’ll be another one along in a minute. Shoot him too? Why not shoot everyone and invade Poland? In fifty years’, thirty years’, ten years’ time the world will be very nearly back on its old course. History always has a great weight of inertia.

They will merely know what is in my messages.

Fear is a strange soil. It grows obedience like corn, which grow in straight lines to make weeding easier. But sometimes it grows the potatoes of defiance, which flourish underground.