Terry Pratchett: Trending quotes (page 22)

“If you put butter and salt on it, it tastes like salty butter.”

“You get a wonderful view from the point of no return.”

“Life is a trick, and you get one chance to learn it.”

“They didn't have to be funny — they werejokes.”

“The more you think about it, the more amazing the everyday world of human beings becomes: most of it doesn't actually exist at all.”

“Humanity's a nice place to visit, but you wouldn't want to live there.”

“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.”