Terry Pratchett: Trending quotes (page 12)

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

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

“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.”

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

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

“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.”

“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.”

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

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

“If there were such a thing as an inter-city thieving contest, Ankh-Morpork would bring home the trophy and probably everyone’s wallets.”

“Racism was not a problem on the Discworld, because—what with trolls and dwarfs and so on—speciesism was more interesting. Black and white lived in perfect harmony and ganged up on green.”

“But I don'tin reincarnation!" he protested.
SQUEAK.
And this, Mr Pounder understood with absolute rodent clarity, meant: reincarnation believes in.”

“Esme Weatherwax hadn't done nice. She'd done what was.”

“Belief, he says. Belief shifts. People start out believing in the god and end up believing in the structure.”

“When people say "clearly" something that means there's a huge crack in their argument and they know things aren't clear at all.”

“I don't want to hurt you, Mistress Weatherwax," said Mrs Gogol.
"That's good," said Granny. "I don't want you to hurt me either.”

“How do you get all those coins?" asked Mort.
IN PAIRS.”

“Vimes's lack of interest in other people's children was limitless.”