Terry Pratchett: Trending quotes (page 17)

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

“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.”

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

“We're on a mission from Glod.”

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

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

“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.”

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

“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.”

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

“Mort was already aware that love made you feel hot and cold and cruel and weak, but he hadn't realized that it could make you stupid.”

“I never said nothing…"
"I know you never! I could hear you not saying anything! You've got the loudest silences I ever did hear from anyone who wasn't dead!”

“[Science fiction is] out in the mainstream now. You can tell by the way mainstream literary authors pillage SF while denying they're writing it!”

“Evil in general does not sleep, and therefore doesn't see why anyone else should.”

“It's hard to explain," said Brutha. "But I think it's got something to do with how people should behave… you should do things because they're right. Not because gods say so. They might say something different another time.”

“Even the blind and meek and voiceless have gods.”

“Natural selection saw to it that professional heroes who at a crucial moment tended to ask themselves questions like 'What is my purpose in life?' very quickly lacked both.”

“Letitia! What a name. Halfway between a salad and a sneeze.”

“It’s quite easy to accidentally overhear people talking downstairs if you hold an upturned glass to the floorboards and accidentally put your ear to it.”