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“I notice you didn't laugh, Mr. Black!
No, Your Majesty. We are forbidden to laugh at the things kings say, sire, because otherwise we would be at it all day.”

Terry Pratchett book Nation

Source: Nation

“Sometimes the only thing you could do for people was to be there.”

Terry Pratchett book Soul Music

Source: Soul Music

“Yes, but humans are more important than animals,' said Brutha.
'This is a point of view often expressed by humans,' said Om.”

Terry Pratchett book Small Gods

Source: Small Gods

“Although the scythe isn't pre-eminent among the weapons of war, anyone who has been on the wrong end of, say, a peasants' revolt will know that in skilled hands it is fearsome.”

Terry Pratchett book Mort

Source: Mort

“And our lady friend, she thinks life works like a fairy tale.'
Well, that’s harmless, isn’t it?'
Yeah, but in fairy tales, when someone dies… it’s just a word.”

Terry Pratchett (1948–2015) English author

Source: The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents

“I know about people who talk about suffering for the common good. It's never bloody them! When you hear a man shouting "Forward, brave comrades!" you'll see he's the one behind the bloody big rock and the wearing the only really arrow-proof helmet!”

Terry Pratchett (1948–2015) English author

“In Ankh-Morpork you can be whoever you want to be and sometimes people laugh and sometimes they clap, and mostly and beautifully, they don't really care.”

Terry Pratchett book Raising Steam

Source: Raising Steam

“He felt as if he had been shipwrecked on the Titanic, but in the nick of time had been rescued. By the Lusitania.”

Terry Pratchett book Mort

Source: Mort

“That, lad," he said proudly, "was some of the worst poetry I have heard for a long time. It was offensive to the ear and a torrrture to the soul…. We'll make a gonnagle out of ye yet!”

Terry Pratchett book The Wee Free Men

Source: The Wee Free Men

“People's whole lives do pass in front of their eye before dying. The process is called "Living”

Terry Pratchett (1948–2015) English author

“Do you think there’s anything to eat in this forest?”
“Yes,” said the wizard bitterly, “us.”

Terry Pratchett book The Light Fantastic

Source: The Light Fantastic

“THERE'S NO JUSTICE, said Mort. JUST US.”

Terry Pratchett book Mort

Source: Mort

“But there was more to it than that. As the Amazing Maurice said, it was just a story about people and rats. And the difficult part of it was deciding who the people were, and who were the rats.”

Terry Pratchett (1948–2015) English author

Source: The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents

“Genius is always allowed some leeway, once the hammer has been pried from its hands and the blood has been cleaned up.”

Terry Pratchett book Thief of Time

Source: Thief of Time

“There is a curse.
They say:
May you live in interesting times.”

Terry Pratchett book Interesting Times

Source: Interesting Times

“He sighed. It had come to this. He was a responsible authority, and people could use terms like "core values" at him with impunity.”

Terry Pratchett book Making Money

Source: Making Money

“These weren't encouraged in the city, since the heft and throw of a longbow's arrow could send it through an innocent bystander a hundred yards away instead of the innocent bystander at whom it was aimed.”

Terry Pratchett book Guards! Guards!

Source: Guards! Guards!

“Everyone knew there were wolves in the mountains, but they seldom came near the village - the modern wolves were the offspring of ancestors that had survived because they had learned that human meat had sharp edges.”

Terry Pratchett book Equal Rites

Source: Equal Rites

“It's like chess, you know. The Queen saves the King.”

Terry Pratchett book The Shepherd's Crown

Source: The Shepherd's Crown

“This is a lovely party," said the Bursar to a chair, "I wish I was here.”

Terry Pratchett book Lords and Ladies

Source: Lords and Ladies