Terry Pratchett Quotes

The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.

On the Disc the gods dealt severely with atheists.

Students, eh? Love ’em or hate ’em, you can’t hit them with a shovel!

[…] the awesome splendor of the universe is much easier to deal with if you think of it as a series of small chunks.

Hat = wizard, wizard = hat. Everything else is frippery.

In the Ramtops village where they dance the real Morris dance, for example, they believe that no-one is finally dead until the ripples they cause in the world die away – until the clock he wound up winds down, until the wine she made has finished its ferment, until the crop they planted is harvested. The span of someone’s life, they say, is only the core of their actual existence.

One of the important things about being a small-town reporter is knowing what not to put in the paper.

The truth is a fog, in which one man sees the heavenly host and the other one sees a flying elephant.

He looked up at them, a scruffy Napoleon with his laces trailing, exiled to a rose-trellised Elba.

Never f*!k with the ineffable.

Because some stories end, but old stories go on, and you gotta dance to the music if you want to stay ahead

Cats don’t hunt seals. They would if they knew what they were and where to find them. But they don’t, so that’s all right.