Terry Pratchett: Trending quotes (page 32)

“Look, he said to his imagination, if this is how you're going to behave, I shan't bring you again.”

“I hate cats."
Death's face became a little stiffer, if that were possible. The blue glow in his eye sockets flickered red for an instant.
"I SEE," he said. The tone suggested that death was too good for cat haters.”

“The first draft is just you telling yourself the story.”

“Build a man a fire, and he'll be warm for a day. Set a man on fire, and he'll be warm for the rest of his life.”

“Mister Teatime had a truly brilliant mind, but it was brilliant like a fractured mirror, all marvellous facets and rainbows but, ultimately, also something that was broken.”

“Nanny's philosophy of life was to do what seemed like a good idea at the time, and do it as hard as possible. It had never let her down.”

“Sometimes the truth is arrived at by adding all the little lies together and deducting them from the totality of what is known.”

“Perhaps it would be simpler if you just did what you're told and didn't try to understand things.”

“My name is immaterial,' she said.
That's a pretty name,' said Rincewind.”

“No more words. We know them all, all the words that should not be said. But you have made my world more perfect.”

“Speak softly and employ a huge man with a crowbar.”

“The purpose of this lectchoor is to let you know where we are. We are in the deep cack. It couldn't be worse if it was raining arseholes. Any questions?”

“Noble dragons don't have friends. The nearest they can get to the idea is an enemy who is still alive.”

“Gods don't like people not doing much work. People who aren't busy all the time might start to think.”

“… and the funny thing was that people who weren't entirely certain they were right always argued much louder than other people, as if the main person they were trying to convince were themselves.”

“Ankh-Morpork had dallied with many forms of government and had ended up with that form of democracy known as One Man, One Vote. The Patrician was the Man; he had the Vote.”

“It was sad, like those businessmen who came to work in serious clothes but wore colorful ties in a mad, desperate attempt to show there was a free spirit in there somewhere.”

“I can see we're going to get along like a house on fire," said Miss Tick. "There may be no survivors.”

“You're not allowed to call them dinosaurs any more," said Yo-less. "It's speciesist. You have to call them pre-petroleum persons.”