Terry Pratchett: Likeness

Terry Pratchett was English author. Explore interesting quotes on likeness.
Terry Pratchett: 1592 quotes906 likes

“Do you know how wizards like to be buried?"
"Yes!"
"Well, how?"
Granny Weatherwax paused at the bottom of the stairs.
"Reluctantly.”

Terry Pratchett book Equal Rites

Source: Equal Rites

“I reckon responsible behavior is something to get when you grow older. Like varicose veins.”

Terry Pratchett book Wyrd Sisters

Source: Wyrd Sisters

“Mere animals couldn’t possibly manage to act like this. You need to be a human being to be really stupid.”

Terry Pratchett book Pyramids

Source: Pyramids

“Natural selection saw to it that professional heroes who at a crucial moment tended to ask themselves questions like 'What is my purpose in life?' very quickly lacked both.”

Terry Pratchett

Source: Interesting Times: The Play

“When people say things are a lot more complicated than that, they means they're getting worried that they won't like the truth.”

Terry Pratchett book Carpe Jugulum

Source: Carpe Jugulum

“People were people, even if they had four legs and had called themselves names like Dangerous Beans, which is the kind of name you gave yourself if you learned to read before you understood what all the words actually meant.”

Terry Pratchett

Source: The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents

“Witches aren’t like that. We live in harmony with the great cycles of Nature, and do no harm to anyone, and it’s wicked of them to say we don’t. We ought to fill their bones with hot lead.”

Terry Pratchett book Wyrd Sisters

Source: Wyrd Sisters

“But this didn'tlike magic. It felt a lot older than that. It felt like music.”

Terry Pratchett book Soul Music

Source: Soul Music

“Maurice watched them argue again. Humans, eh? Think they're lords of creation. Not like us cats. We know we are. Ever see a cat feed a human? Case proven.”

Terry Pratchett

Source: The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents

“In defiance of Miss Maccalariat I'd like to commit hanky-panky with you, Miss Adora Belle Dearheart… well, certainly hanky, and possibly panky when we get to know one another better.”

Terry Pratchett book Going Postal

Source: Going Postal

“Taxation, gentlemen, is very much like dairy farming. The task is to extract the maximum amount of milk with the minimum amount of moo.”

Terry Pratchett book Jingo

Source: Jingo

“Sometimes thinking is like talking to another person, but that person is also you.”

Terry Pratchett book Thief of Time

Source: Thief of Time

“It's like chess, you know. The Queen saves the King.”

Terry Pratchett book The Shepherd's Crown

Source: The Shepherd's Crown

“He sighed. It had come to this. He was a responsible authority, and people could use terms like "core values" at him with impunity.”

Terry Pratchett book Making Money

Source: Making Money

“And our lady friend, she thinks life works like a fairy tale.'
Well, that’s harmless, isn’t it?'
Yeah, but in fairy tales, when someone dies… it’s just a word.”

Terry Pratchett

Source: The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents

“I MAY HAVE ALLOWED MYSELF SOME FLICKER OF EMOTION IN THE RECENT PAST, said Death, BUT I CAN GIVE IT UP ANY TIME I LIKE.”

Terry Pratchett book Soul Music

Source: Soul Music

“… a metaphor… is like lying but more decorative.”

Terry Pratchett book Guards! Guards!

Source: Guards! Guards!

“Light died in the west. Night and tears took the Nation. The star of Water drifted among the clouds like a murderer softly leaving the scene of the crime.”

Terry Pratchett book Nation

Source: Nation

“That's what I don't like about magic. It does everything by magic.”

Terry Pratchett Thud!

Source: Thud!

“All he knew was that you couldn't hope to try for the big stuff, like world peace and happiness, but you might just about be able to achieve some tiny deed that'd make the world, in a small way, a better place. Like shooting someone.”

Terry Pratchett book The Fifth Elephant

Source: The Fifth Elephant