3,122 Quotes by Terry Pratchett

It doesn't stop being magic just because you know how it works.

Deliberate misfiling ran fingernails down the blackboard of his very soul.

It's supposed to be jolly, with mistletoe and holly... and other things ending in olly.

He had a notebook. He took notes in it. It was always useful. And them Sybil, gods bless her, had brought him this fifteen-function imp which did so many other things, although as far as he could see at least ten of its functions consisted of apologizing for its inefficiency in the other five.

Voor sommige mensen is er maar één goed moment voor het juiste woord. Dat is erg jammer, maar er schijnt niets aan gedaan te kunnen worden.

... responsibilities are the anvil on which a man is forged.

The demons of critical path analysis swarmed around his brain. There was always something that you had to do before you could do the thing you wanted to do and even then you might get it wrong.

Cheery was aware that Commander Vimes didn't like the phrase 'The innocent have nothing to fear', believing the innocent had everything to fear, mostly from the guilty but in the longer term even more from those who say things like 'The innocent have nothing to fear'.

And Sam Vimes thought: Why is Young Sam's nursery full of farmyard animals anyway? Why are his books full of moo-cows and baa-lambs? He is growing up in the city. He will only see them on a plate! They go sizzle!