Terry Pratchett: Trending quotes (page 11)

“You can't second-guess ineffability, I always say.”

“When Mister Safety Catch Is Not On, Mister Crossbow Is Not Your Friend.”

“For example, the dwarfs found out how to turn lead into gold by doing it the hard way. The difference between that and the easy way is that the hard way works.”

“It was said that life was cheap in Ankh-Morpork. This was of course, completely wrong. Life was often very expensive; you could get death for free.”

“Go anywhere you wish, talk to everyone. Ask any questions; you will be given answers. When you want to learn, you will be taught. Use the library. Open any book.”

“Money makes people rich; it is a fallacy to think it makes them better, or even that it makes them worse. People are what they do, and what they leave behind.”

“The smug mask of virtue triumphant could be almost as horrible as the face of wickedness revealed.”

“the IQ of a mob is the IQ of its most stupid member divided by the number of mobsters”

“Pulling together is the aim of despotism and tyranny. Free men pull in all kinds of directions.”

“Stand before your god, bow before your king, kneel before your man.”

“Carpe Jugulum," read Agnes aloud. "That's… well, Carpe Diem is 'Sieze the Day,' so this means-"
"Go for the throat”

“If women were as good as men they'd be a lot better!”

“I read anything that’s going to be interesting. But you don’t know what it is until you’ve read it. Somewhere in a book on the history of false teeth there’ll be the making of a novel.”

“Whoever had created humanity had left in a major design flaw.
It was its tendency to bend at the knees.”

“He said that there was death and taxes, and taxes was worse, because at least death didn’t happen to you every year.”

“That's the trouble, you see. When you've had hatred on your tongue for such a long time, you don't know how to spit it out.”

“Young man, the games we play are lessons we learn. The assumptions we make, things we ignore, and things we change make us what we become.”

“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.”

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