Terry Pratchett: Trending quotes (page 28)

“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.”

“Rincewind tried to force the memory out of his mind, but it was rather enjoying itself there, terrorizing the other occupants and kicking over the furniture.”

“The worst thing you can do is nothing.”

“The trouble was that he was talking in philosophy but they were listening in gibberish.”

“William: "I'm sure we can all pull together, sir."
Vetinari: "Oh, I do hope not. Pulling together is the aim of despotism and tyranny. Free men pull in all kinds of directions.”

“I’m not superstitious. I’m a witch. Witches aren’t superstitious. We are what people are superstitious of.”

“And just when you’d think [humans] were more malignant than ever Hell could be, they occasionally showed more grace than Heaven ever dreamed of.”

“It was amazing how many friends you could make by being bad at things, provided you were bad enough to be funny.”