Source: Guards! Guards!: (Discworld Novel 8)
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Famous Terry Pratchett Quotes
“Time is a drug. Too much of it kills you.”
Source: Small Gods: (Discworld Novel 13)
“Real stupidity beats artificial intelligence every time.”
Source: Hogfather: (Discworld Novel 20)
“He says gods like to see an atheist around. Gives them something to aim at.”
Source: Small Gods: (Discworld Novel 13)
“I'd rather be a rising ape than a falling angel.”
Source: A Slip of the Keyboard: Collected Non-fiction
“"And what would humans be without love?" Rare, said Death.”
“What can the harvest hope for, if not for the care of the Reaper Man?”
Source: Seriously Funny: The Endlessly Quotable Terry Pratchett
“Always be wary of any helpful item that weighs less than its operating manual.”
Source: Jingo: (Discworld Novel 21)
Source: Feet of Clay: A Novel of Discworld
Source: Lords And Ladies: (Discworld Novel 14)
Source: Terry Pratchett's Discworld Coloring Book
“Coming back to where you started is not the same as never leaving.”
Source: Seriously Funny: The Endlessly Quotable Terry Pratchett
Source: The Wit And Wisdom Of Discworld
“We who think we are about to die will laugh at anything.”
Source: Night Watch
Source: Seriously Funny: The Endlessly Quotable Terry Pratchett
“Did I do anything last night that suggested I was sane?”
Source: Going Postal: (Discworld Novel 33)
“It's still magic even if you know how it's done.”
Source: The Wee Free Men: (Discworld Novel 30)
Source: Equal Rites: (Discworld Novel 3)
“'Don't think of it as dying,' said Death. 'Just think of it as leaving early to avoid the rush.'”
“The duke had a mind that ticked like a clock and, like a clock, it regularly went cuckoo.”
Source: Pyramids: A Novel of Discworld
Source: Feet Of Clay: (Discworld Novel 19)
Source: The Fifth Elephant: (Discworld Novel 24)
Source: Hogfather: (Discworld Novel 20)
Source: Night Watch
“Sometimes glass glitters more than diamonds because it has more to prove.”
“Just because it's not nice doesn't mean it's not miraculous.”
Source: Interesting Times: (Discworld Novel 17)
“If you put butter and salt on it, it tastes like salty butter.”
Source: Moving Pictures: (Discworld Novel 10)
Source: The Wit And Wisdom Of Discworld
“Humans need fantasy to be human. To be the place where the falling angel meets the rising ape.”
Source: Hogfather: (Discworld Novel 20)
“Rincewind could scream for mercy in nineteen languages, and just scream in another forty-four.”
“If you don't turn your life into a story, you just become a part of someone else's story.”
“Bishops move diagonally. That's why they often turn up where the kings don't expect them to be.”