Discworld Quotes

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  • Coming back to where you started is not the same as never leaving.

    Terry Pratchett (2016). “Seriously Funny: The Endlessly Quotable Terry Pratchett”, p.68, Random House
  • The shortest unit of time in the multiverse is the New York Second, defined as the period of time between the traffic lights turning green and the cab behind you honking.

    New York   Light   Green  
    "Lords and Ladies" by Terry Pratchett, Harper, (p. 282), October 2008.
  • The people who really run organizations are usually found several levels down, where it is still possible to get things done.

    "Small Gods". Book by Terry Pratchett, 1992.
  • Just because it's not nice doesn't mean it's not miraculous.

    Nice   Mean   Discworld  
    Terry Pratchett (2008). “Interesting Times: (Discworld Novel 17)”, p.11, Random House
  • Genius is always allowed some leeway, once the hammer has been pried from its hands and the blood has been cleaned up.

    Blood   Hands   Hammers  
    "Thief of Time: A Novel of Discworld". Book by Terry Pratchett, 2001.
  • If you trust in yourself. . .and believe in your dreams. . .and follow your star. . . you'll still get beaten by people who spent their time working hard and learning things and weren't so lazy.

    FaceBook post by Terry Pratchett from Aug 28, 2015
  • Of course, it is very important to be sober when you take an exam. Many worthwhile careers in the street-cleansing, fruit-picking and subway-guitar-playing industries have been founded on a lack of understanding of this simple fact.

    Simple   Guitar   Careers  
    Terry Pratchett (2016). “Seriously Funny: The Endlessly Quotable Terry Pratchett”, p.37, Random House
  • 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 (2008). “Carpe Jugulum: (Discworld Novel 23)”, p.314, Random House
  • You know how to pray, don’t you? Just put your hands together and hope.

  • I prefer to achieve immortality by not dying.

  • Build a man a fire, and he'll be warm for a day. Set a man on fire, and he'll be warm for the rest of his life.

  • And no practical definition of freedom would be complete without the freedom to take the consequences. Indeed, it is the freedom upon which all the others are based.

    "Going Postal". Book by Terry Pratchett, en.wikiquote.org. 2004.
  • The three rules of the Librarians of Time and Space are: 1) Silence; 2) Books must be returned by no later than the date shown; and 3) Do not interfere with the nature of causality.

    Book   Space   Silence  
    Terry Pratchett (2008). “Guards! Guards!: (Discworld Novel 8)”, p.187, Random House
  • I commend my soul to any god that can find it.

    Terry Pratchett (2013). “Going Postal: Stage Adaptation”, p.15, A&C Black
  • As we all know, the Discworld is a flat planet - like a geological pizza, but without the anchovies.

    Stephen Briggs, Terry Pratchett (2012). “Turtle Recall: The Discworld Companion . . . So Far”, p.126, Hachette UK
  • ...inside every old person is a young person wondering what happened.

    Terry Pratchett (2009). “Moving Pictures: (Discworld Novel 10)”, p.311, Random House
  • I think when people mean that Discworld books have become darker they really mean the series is growing up. In 'The Colour of Magic' most of the city is set alight. It's a joke, in much the same way that the Earth is destroyed almost at the start of Douglas Adams's 'The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy.'

    Growing Up   Book   Mean  
  • Only in our dreams are we free. The rest of the time we need wages.

    Dream   Needs   Wages  
    Terry Pratchett (2008). “Wyrd Sisters: (Discworld Novel 6)”, p.270, Random House
  • Despite rumor, Death isn't cruel--merely terribly, terribly good at his job.

    Jobs   Rumor   Discworld  
  • Real stupidity beats artificial intelligence every time.

    Terry Pratchett (2008). “Hogfather: (Discworld Novel 20)”, p.215, Random House
  • The entire universe has been neatly divided into things to (a) mate with, (b) eat, (c) run away from, and (d) rocks.

    Funny   Running   Rocks  
    "Terry Pratchett in quotes: 15 of the best". www.theguardian.com. March 12, 2015.
  • The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.

    Terry Pratchett (2010). “Diggers: The Second Book of the Nomes”, p.34, Random House
  • People don't alter history any more than birds alter the sky, they just make brief patterns in it.

    Sky   People   Bird  
    FaceBook post by Terry Pratchett from Nov 30, 2016
  • In the beginning there was nothing, which exploded.

    "Lords and Ladies". Book by Terry Pratchett, www.theguardian.com. 1992.
  • Divide by cucumber error. Please reinstall universe and reboot.

    Terry Pratchett (2008). “Hogfather: (Discworld Novel 20)”, p.218, Random House
  • Ankh-Morpork had dallied with many forms of government and had ended up with that form of democracy known as One Man, One Vote. The Patrician was the Man; he had the Vote.

    Men   Democracy   Ankh  
    Terry Pratchett (2012). “The Wit and Wisdom of Discworld”, p.38, Harper Collins
  • People who are rather more than six feet tall and nearly as broad across the shoulders often have uneventful journeys. People jump out at them from behind rocks then say things like, "Oh. Sorry. I thought you were someone else.

    Sorry   Journey   Rocks  
    Terry Pratchett (2008). “Guards! Guards!: (Discworld Novel 8)”, p.21, Random House
  • The trouble was that he was talking in philosophy but they were listening in gibberish.

    "Small Gods". Book by Terry Pratchett, 1992.
  • Pets are always a great help in times of stress. And in times of starvation too, o'course.

    Stress   Pet   Helping  
    "Small Gods". Book by Terry Pratchett, 1992.
  • We've got a lot of experience of not having any experience

    Terry Pratchett (2010). “Witches Abroad: (Discworld Novel 12)”, p.52, Random House
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