Terry Pratchett: Trending quotes (page 18)

“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.”

“Probably the last man who knew how it worked had been tortured to death years before. Or as soon as it was installed. Killing the creator was a traditional method of patent protection.”

“Thinking. This book contains some. Whether you try it at home is up to you.”

“First draft: let it run. Turn all the knobs up to 11. Second draft: hell. Cut it down and cut it into shape. Third draft: comb its nose and blow its hair. I usually find that most of the book will have handed itself to me on that first draft.”

“These weren't cheap modern books; these were books bound in leather, and not just leather, but leather from clever cows who had given their lives for literature after a happy existence in the very best pastures.”

“Rumour is information distilled so finely that it can filter through anything. It does not need doors and windows -- sometimes it does not need people. It can exist free and wild, running from ear to ear without ever touching lips.”

“We sleepwalk through our lives, because how could we live if we were always this awake?”

“Things just happen, one after another. They don't care who knows. But… ah, history is different. History has to be observed. Otherwise it's not history. It's just… well, things happening one after another.”

“The Departure Aria, a very important and romantic song”

“No. Men should die for lies. But the truth is too precious to die for.”

“‎No one remembers the singer. The song remains.”

“The city's full of people who you just see around.”

“Don't do anything I wouldn't do, if you ever find anything I wouldn't do.”

“The jurisdiction of a good man extends to the end of the world.”

“They obeyed, as wise men do when a woman puts her foot down…”