Terry Pratchett Quotes

In ancient times cats were worshipped as gods; they have not forgotten this.

Everything starts somewhere, although many physicists disagree.

“But is all this true?” said Brutha. Didactylos shrugged. “Could be. Could be. We are here and it is now. The way I see it is, after that, everything tends toward guesswork.”

The pen is mightier than the sword if the sword is very short, and the pen is very sharp.

They looked at one another in incomprehension, two minds driving opposite ways up a narrow street and waiting for the other man to reverse first.

Glod knew a guitar when he saw one. They were supposed to be shaped like a woman, but this was only the case if you thought women had no legs, a long neck and too many ears.

The good are innocent and create justice. The bad are guilty, which is why they invent mercy.

There was always someone ready to cut the heir with a knife.

Many people, meeting Aziraphale for the first time, formed three impressions: that he was English, that he was intelligent, and that he was gayer than a tree full of monkeys on nitrous oxide.

Things just happen, one after another. They don’t care who knows But “history” – ah, history is different. History has to be observed. Otherwise it’s not history. It’s just – well, things happening one after another.