3,122 Quotes by Terry Pratchett

There was something else I was trying to say," said Rincewind, letting go of the hand. He looked blank for a moment, and then added, "Oh, yes. It's vital to remember who you really are. It's very important. It isn't a good idea to rely on other people or things to do it for you, you see. They always get it wrong.

Esk felt that bravery was called for, but on a night like this bravery lasted only as long as a candle stayed alight.

If, somewhere, any possible world can exist, then somewhere there is any letter that could possibly be written. Somewhere, all those checks really were in the mail.

Carrot, to whom the word irony meant something to do with metal, picked up his pike and after a couple of impressive rebounds managed to cut the cake into approximately four slices.

The thing about elves is they've got no... begins with m," Granny snapped her fingers irritably."Manners?""Hah! Right, but no""Muscle? Mucus? Mystery?""No. No. No. Means like... seein' the other person's point of view."Verence tried to see the world from a Granny Weatherwax perspective and suspicion dawned. "Empathy?""Right. None at all.

You haven't really been anywhere until you've got back home.

Some shadows are so long, they arrive before the light.

At last the magic caught, and she managed to vault clumsily onto it before it trundled into the night sky as gracefully as a duck with one wing missing.

You're just as dead if you fall from forty feet as you are from four thousand fathoms, that's what I say.