3,122 Quotes by Terry Pratchett

Most gods throw dice, but Fate plays chess, and you don’t find out til too late that he’s been playing with two queens all along.

They can ta’k our lives but they can never ta’k our freedom!? Now there’s a battle cry not designed by a clear thinker.

The power of prayer and faith can heal and bring happiness. The real tragedy is that the people that are helped by this don’t realize that this power is really coming from within.

I know it’s a very human thing to say ‘Is there anything I can do,’ but in this case I would only entertain offers from very high-end experts in brain chemistry.

He’s out of his depth on a wet pavement.

Gods don’t like people not doing much work. People who aren’t busy all the time might start to think.

People aren’t just people, they are people surrounded by circumstances.

People couldn’t become truly holy, he said, unless they also had the opportunity to be definitively wicked.

Inside every lump of coal there’s a diamond waiting to get out.