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“Things are not as they seem. They are what they are.”

Source: Thief of Time

“They say that the prospect of being hanged in the morning concentrates a man's mind wonderfully; unfortunately, what the mind inevitably concentrates on is that, in the morning, it will be in a body that is going to be hanged.”

Terry Pratchett book Going Postal

Source: Going Postal

“Ninety percent of true love is acute, ear-burning embarrassment.”

Terry Pratchett book Wyrd Sisters

Source: Wyrd Sisters

“Raising the flag and singing the anthem are, while somewhat suspicious, not in themselves acts of treason.”

Terry Pratchett book Night Watch

Source: Night Watch

“Vimes had got around to a Clean Desk policy. It was a Clean Floor strategy
that eluded him at the moment.”

Terry Pratchett Thud!

Source: Thud!

“They can tak' oour lives but they canna tak' oour troousers!”

Terry Pratchett book The Wee Free Men

Source: The Wee Free Men

“It is well known that a vital ingredient of success is not knowing that what you're attempting can't be done. A person ignorant of the possibility of failure can be a half-brick in the path of the bicycle of history.”

Terry Pratchett book Equal Rites

Source: Equal Rites

“Thunder rolled.. It rolled a six.”

Terry Pratchett book Guards! Guards!

Source: Guards! Guards!

“I'm trying to have a moment o' existential dreed here, right? Crivens, it's a puir lookout if a man canna feel the chilly winds o' fate lashing aroound his netheres wi'out folks telling him he's deid, eh?”

Terry Pratchett book A Hat Full of Sky

Source: A Hat Full of Sky

“… All the shops have been smashed open. There was a whole bunch of people across the street helping themselves to musical instruments, can you believe that?"

"Yeah," said Rincewind. "… Luters, I expect.”

Terry Pratchett book The Light Fantastic

Source: The Light Fantastic

“Inside every lump of coal there's a diamond waiting to get out.”

Terry Pratchett book Reaper Man

Source: Reaper Man

“I don’t know what to do,” he said. “No harm in that. I’ve never known what to do,” said Rincewind with hollow cheerfulness. “Been completely at a loss my whole life.” He hesitated. “I think it’s called being human, or something.”

Terry Pratchett book Sourcery

Source: Sourcery

“When people say things are a lot more complicated than that, they means they're getting worried that they won't like the truth.”

Terry Pratchett book Carpe Jugulum

Source: Carpe Jugulum

“We're on a mission from Glod.”

Terry Pratchett book Soul Music

Source: Soul Music

“Last hopeless chances have got to work. Nothing makes sense otherwise. You might as well not be alive.”

Terry Pratchett book Guards! Guards!

Source: Guards! Guards!

“Because no man wants to be a coward in front of a cheese.”

Terry Pratchett book Wintersmith

Source: Wintersmith

“It's always surprising to be reminded that while you're watching and thinking about people, all knowing and superior, they're watching and thinking about you, right back at you.”

Terry Pratchett book A Hat Full of Sky

Source: A Hat Full of Sky

“Nanny Ogg never did any housework herself, but she was the cause of housework in other people.”

Terry Pratchett (1948–2015) English author

“Good and bad is tricky," she said. "I ain't too certain about where people stand. P'raps what matters is which way you face.”

Terry Pratchett book Witches Abroad

Source: Witches Abroad

“And all those exclamation marks, you notice? Five? A sure sign of someone who wears his underpants on his head.”

Terry Pratchett (1948–2015) English author