Terry Pratchett quotes - page 21

They can tak' oour lives but they canna tak' oour troousers! (Terry Pratchett)
Vimes had got around to a Clean Desk policy. It was a Clean Floor strategy that eluded him at the moment. View quote
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Raising the flag and singing the anthem are, while somewhat suspicious, not in themselves acts of treason. View quote
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Ninety percent of true love is acute, ear-burning embarrassment. View quote
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I see evil when I look in my shaving mirror. It is, philosophically, present everywhere in the universe in order, apparently, to highlight the existence of good. I think there is more to this theory, but I tend to burst out laughing at this point. View quote
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Hat = wizard, wizard = hat. Everything else is frippery. View quote
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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. View quote
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It wasn't that Nanny Ogg sang badly. It was just that she could hit notes which, when amplified by a tin bath half full of water, ceased to be sound and became some sort of invasive presence. View quote
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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. View quote
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Questions don't have to make sense, Vincent," said Miss Susan. "But answers do. View quote
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This is space. It's sometimes called the final frontier. (Except that of course you can't have afrontier, because there'd be nothing for it to be a frontier, but as frontiers go, it's pretty penultimate...) (Terry Pratchett)
This is Art holding a Mirror up to Life. That's why everything is exactly the wrong way around. View quote
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Some people believe that when you die, you cross the River of Death and have to pay the ferryman. People don't seem to worry about that these days. Perhaps there's a bridge now. View quote
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Granny Weatherwax was not a good loser. From her point of view, losing was something that happened to other people. View quote
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Any fool could be a witch with a runic knife, but it took skill to be one with an apple corer. View quote
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Either dragons should exist completely or fail to exist at all, he felt. A dragon only half-existing was worse than the extremes. View quote
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If failure had no penalty success would not be a prize. View quote
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Be careful what you wish for. You never know who will be listening. View quote
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Few things are hidden from a quiet child with good eyesight. View quote
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Oh, where are my manners? Do sit down. Pull up a small child. View quote
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First Sight means you can see what really is there, and Second Thoughts mean thinking about what you are thinking. And in Tiffany's case, there were sometimes Third Thoughts and Fourth Thoughts although these... sometimes led her to walk into doors. (Terry Pratchett)
But in his experience it was only a matter of time before the normal balance of the universe restored itself and started doing the usual terrible things to him. View quote
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There would be a price... But if you were worried about the price, then why were you in the shop? View quote
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Soon to come in licorice, orange, cinnamon, and banana, but not strawberry, because I hate strawberries. View quote
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Someone got killed up here.... It was outside. A tall man. He had one leg longer'n the other. And a beard. He was probably a hunter." "How'd you know all that?" "I just trod on ‘im. View quote
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