Terry Pratchett: Quotes about people (page 2)

“Sometimes I really think people ought to have to pass a proper exam before they're allowed to be parents. Not just the practical, I mean.”

“A marriage is always made up of two people who are prepared to swear that only the other one snores.”

“People think that stories are shaped by people. In fact, it's the other way around.”

“Knowing things is magical, if other people don't know them.”

“Yes! I'm! I am careful and logical and I look up things I don't understand! When I hear people use the wrong words, I get edgy! I am good with cheese. I read books fast! I! And I always have a piece of string! That's the kind of person I am!”

“I believe you find life such a problem because you think there are good people and bad people. You're wrong, of course. There are, always and only, the bad people”

“Lots of people would be as cowardly as me if they were brave enough.”

“… 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.”

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

“I have no use for people who have learned the limits of the possible.”

“Always remember that the crowd that applauds your coronation is the same crowd that will applaud your beheading. People like a show.”

“But we're a university! Weto have a library!" said Ridcully. "It adds. What sort of people would we be if we didn't go into the library?"

"Students," said Senior Wrangler morosely.”

“People who didn't need people needed people around to know that they were the kind of people who didn't need people.”

“The phrase 'Someone ought to do something' was not, by itself, a helpful one. People who used itadded the rider 'and that someone is me'.”

“There's no such thing as writer's block. That was invented by people in California who couldn't write.”

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

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

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

“Never build a dungeon you wouldn't be happy to spend the night in yourself. The world would be a happier place if more people remembered that.”