Terry Pratchett: Trending quotes (page 22)

“The sun is simple. A sword is simple. A storm is simple. Behind everything simple is a huge tail of complicated.”

“It's lies. It's all lies. Some of them are just prettier than others, that's all. People see what they think is there.”

“Some people think this is paranoia, but it isn't. Paranoids only think everyone is out to get them. Wizards know it.”

“People don't like change. But make the change fast enough and you go from one type of normal to another.”

“When I am old I shall wear midnight.”

“Learnin’ how not to do things is as hard as learning how to do them.”

“Oh. I see. People don't want to see what can't possibly exist.”

“You know how to pray, don’t you? Just put your hands together and hope.”

“Seeing things a human shouldn't have to see makes us human.”

“The important thing about adventures, thought Mr. Bunnsy, was that they shouldn't be so long as to make you miss mealtimes.”

“He thought about how it might be to be, say, a fox confronted with an angry sheep. A sheep moreover, that could afford to employ wolves.”

“It's not lying when you do it to officers!”

“You had to hand it to the Patrician, he admitted grudgingly. If you didn't, he sent men to come and take it away.”

“Never cross a woman with a star on a stick, young lady. They've got a mean streak.”

“The shortest unit of time in the multiverse is the New York Second, defined as the period of time between the traffic lights turning green and the cab behind you honking.”

“And what had he wanted? He'd never sat down to think about it. But mostly, he wanted yesterday to be different from today.”

“Ah," said Mr Pin. "Right. I remember. You are concerned citizens." He knew about concerned citizens. Wherever they were, they all spoke the same private language, where 'traditional values' meant 'hang someone'.”

“That's one form of magic, of course."
"What, just knowing things?"
"Knowing things that other people don't know.”

“Witches were a bit like cats. They didn’t much like one another’s company, but they did like to know where all the other witches were, just in case they needed them.”