Terry Pratchett: Trending quotes (page 24)

“If you do not know where you come from, then you don't know where you are, and if you don't know where you are, then you don't know where you're going. And if you don't know where you're going, you're probably going wrong.”

“Writing is the most fun you can have by yourself.”

“When she spoke again it was in the thin, careful and above all brave voice of someone who has pulled themselves together despite overwhelming odds but might let go again at any moment.”

“People who are rather more than six feet tall and nearly as broad across the shoulders often have uneventful journeys. People jump out at them from behind rocks then say things like, "Oh. Sorry. I thought you were someone else.”

“This wasn't food - it was what food became if it had been good and gone to food heaven.”

“I don't want unnecessary violence, sergeant," said Blouse.
"Right you are, sir!" said the sergeant. "Carborundum! First man comes through that door runnin', I want him nailed to the wall!" He caught the lieutenant's eye, and added: "But not too hard!”

“Colon thought Carrot was simple. Carrot often struck people as simple. And he was.
Where people went wrong was thinking that simple meant the same thing as stupid.”

“Peace?' said Vetinari. 'Ah, yes, defined as period of time to allow for preparation for the next war.”

“I wouldn't trust you with a bucket of water if my knickers were on fire!”

“His movements could be called cat-like, except that he did not stop to spray urine up against things.”

“Never trust a species that grins all the time. It’s up to something.”

“Someone out there was about to find that their worst nightmare was a maddened Librarian. With a badge.”

“Two types of people laugh at the law: those that break it and those that make it.”

“Verence would rather cut his own leg off than put a witch in prison, since it'd save trouble in the long run and probably be less painful.”

“The Kraken stirs. And ten billion sushi dinners cry out for vengeance.”

“It was the living who ignored the strange and wonderful, because life was too full of the boring and mundane.”

“Most of the great triumphs and tragedies of history are caused not by people being fundamentally good or fundamentally evil, but by people being fundamentally people.”

“One day a tortoise will learn how to fly.”

“… William wondered why he always disliked people who said 'no offense meant.' Maybe it was because they found it easier to to say 'no offense meant' than actually to refrain from giving offense.”