Terry Pratchett: Trending quotes (page 28)

“Gravity is a habit that is hard to shake off.”

“It looked like the sort of book described in library catalogues as 'slightly foxed', although it would be more honest to admit that it looked as though it had been badgered, wolved and possibly beared as well.”

“Chances are where you find them”

“Every intelligent being, whether it breathes or not, coughs nervously at some time in its life.”

“The librarians were mysterious. It was said they could tell what book you needed just by looking at you, and they could take your voice away with a word.”

“Ninety percent of most magic merely consists of knowing one extra fact.”

“The thing is, I mean, there’s times when you look at the universe and you think, “What about me?” and you can just hear the universe replying, “Well, what about you?”

“Wisdom is one of the few things that looks bigger the further away it is.”

“If per capita was a problem, decapita could be arranged”

“I should have learned this, she thought. I wanted to learn fire, and pain, but I should have learned people.”

“They think written words are even more powerful,’ whispered the toad. ‘They think all writing is magic. Words worry them. See their swords? They glow blue in the presence of lawyers.”

“Oh, Ivery angry a lot of the time," said Tiffany, "but I just put it away somewhere until I can do something useful with it.”

“People aren't just people, they are people surrounded by circumstances.”

“Just because it's not nice doesn't mean it's not miraculous.”

“Oh yes? Can you identify yourself?
-Certainly. I'd know me anywhere.”

“Commander, I always used to consider that you had a definite anti-authoritarian streak in you.”
“Sir?”
“It seems that you have managed to retain this even though you are authority.”
“Sir?”
“That’s practically zen.”

“Aziraphale. The Enemy, of course. But an enemy for six thousand years now, which made him a sort of friend.”

“A witch ought never to be frightened in the darkest forest, Granny Weatherwax had once told her, because she should be sure in her soul that the most terrifying thing in the forest was her.”

“Despite rumor, Death isn't cruel--merely terribly, terribly good at his job.”