3,122 Quotes by Terry Pratchett

Very slowly, like a mighty sequoia beginning the first step towards resurrection as a million Save the Trees leaflets, Detritus toppled backwards with his mug still in his hand.

All dwarfs have beards and wear up to twelve layers of clothing. Gender is more or less optional.

One thing he saw was that the old men seemed somehow in the way in their homes.

gold, gold, gold, gold, gold, gold"'Is there a chorus?'"Gold, gold, gold, gold, gold".' said Hwel.'You left out a "gold" there.

All dwarfs are by nature dutiful, serious, literate, obedient and thoughtful people whose only minor failing is a tendency, after one drink, to rush at enemies screaming "Arrrrrrgh!" and axing their legs off at the knee.

Surely Bjorn Stronginthearm is my uncle,” he pointed out, slowly.

Granny Wheaterwax wouldn't know what a pattern off of quantum inevitability was if she found it eating her dinner. If you mentioned the words 'paradigms of space-time' to her she'd just say 'What?'. But that didn't mean she was ignorant. It just meant she didn't have any truck with words, especially gibberish. She just knew that there were certain things that happened continually in human history, like three-dimensional clichés. Stories.

You’re a bit young for this,’ she said, ‘but as you grow older you’ll find most people don’t set foot outside their own heads much. You too,’ she added gnomically.

It didn't have a name. Animals don't normally bother with them.