author: terry pratchett

  • You have the effrontery to be squeamish, it thought at him. But we were dragons. We were supposed to be cruel, cunning, heartless, and terrible. But this much I can tell you, you ape –the great face pressed even closer, so that Wonse was staring into the pitiless depths of his eyes – we never burned and tortured…

  • The gods of the Disc have never bothered much about judging the souls of the dead, and so people only go to hell if that’s where they believe, in their deepest heart, that they deserve to go. Which they won’t do if they don’t know about it. This explains why it is so important to…

  • “Sodomy non sapiens,” said Albert under his breath. “What does that mean?” “Means I’m buggered if I know.” – Terry Pratchett

  • You can’t go around building a better world for people. Only people can build a better world for people. Otherwise it’s just a cage. – Terry Pratchett

  • The Ramkins were more highly bred than a hilltop bakery, whereas Corporal Nobbs had been disqualified from the human race for shoving. – Terry Pratchett

  • The Patrician relaxed, in a way which only then drew gentle attention to the foregoing moment of tension. – Terry Pratchett

  • Nanny Ogg looked under her bed in case there was a man there. Well, you never knew your luck. – Terry Pratchett

  • Not a man to mince words. People, yes. But not words. – Terry Pratchett

  • Shoot the dictator and prevent the war? But the dictator is merely the tip of the whole festering boil of social pus from which dictators emerge; shoot one, and there’ll be another one along in a minute. Shoot him too? Why not shoot everyone and invade Poland? In fifty years’, thirty years’, ten years’ time the…

  • If you have to look along the shaft of an arrow from the wrong end, if a man has you at his mercy, then hope like hell that man is an evil man. Because the evil like power, power over people, and they want to see you in fear. They want you to know you are…

  • When someone is saved from certain death by a strange concatenation of circumstances, they say that’s a miracle. But of course, if someone is killed by a freak chain of events — the oil spill just there, the safety fence broken just there — that must also be a miracle. Just because it’s not nice doesn’t mean it’s not miraculous. – Terry Pratchett

  • “I Suggest You Take Me And Smash Me And Grind The Bits Into Fragments And Pound The Fragments Into Powder And Mill Them Again To The Finest Dust There Can Be, And I Believe You Will Not Find A Single Atom Of Life-“ “True! Let’s do it!” “However, In Order To Test This Fully, One…