Terry Pratchett: Trending quotes (page 15)

“IT'S A SWORD, said the Hogfather. THEY'RE NOT /MEANT/ TO BE SAFE.”

“He couldn’t see why people made such a fuss about people eating their silly old fruit anyway, but life would be a lot less fun if they didn’t. And there was never an apple, in Adam’s opinion, that wasn’t worth the trouble you got into for eating it.”

“But this didn'tlike magic. It felt a lot older than that. It felt like music.”

“He'd been an angel once. He hadn't meant to Fall. He'd just hung around with the wrong people.”

“If failure had no penalty success would not be a prize.”

“YOU MUST LEARN THE COMPASSION PROPER TO YOUR TRADE"
"And what's that?"
"A SHARP EDGE.”

“… the little man's total obliviousness to all forms of danger somehow made danger so discouraged that it gave up and went away.”

“Either dragons should exist completely or fail to exist at all, he felt. A dragon only half-existing was worse than the extremes.”

“Granny Weatherwax was not a good loser. From her point of view, losing was something that happened to other people.”

“Any fool could be a witch with a runic knife, but it took skill to be one with an apple corer.”

“People needed to believe in gods, if only because it was so hard to believe in people.”

“Some people believe that when you die, you cross the River of Death and have to pay the ferryman. People don’t seem to worry about that these days. Perhaps there’s a bridge now.”

“This is Art holding a Mirror up to Life. That’s why everything is exactly the wrong way around.”

“Building a temple didn't mean you believed in gods, it just meant you believed in architecture.”

“This is space. It's sometimes called the final frontier.

(Except that of course you can't have afrontier, because there'd be nothing for it to be a frontier, but as frontiers go, it's pretty penultimate…)”

“Credulous: having views about the world, the universe and humanity's place in it that are shared only by very unsophisticated people and the most intelligent and advanced mathematicians and physicists.”

“If you kept changing the way people saw the world, you ended up changing the way you saw yourself.”

“What is magic?
There is the wizard's explanation… wizards talk about candles, circles, planets, stars, bananas, chants, runes and the importance of having at least four good meals every day.”

“Questions don't have to make sense, Vincent," said Miss Susan. "But answers do.”