Terry Pratchett Quotes About Magic

Quotes about: Magic

• It doesn't stop being magic just because you know how it works.

  Terry Pratchett

  Science, Technology, Magic

• They think written words are even more powerful,’ whispered the toad. ‘They think all writing is magic. Words worry them. See their swords? They glow blue in the presence of lawyers.

  Terry Pratchett

  Powerful, Writing, Thinking

• It's still magic even if you know how it's done.

  Terry Pratchett

  Technology, Magic, Done

  Terry Pratchett (2008). “The Wee Free Men: (Discworld Novel 30)”, p.308, Random House

• The senior wizard in a world of magic had the same prospects of long-term employment as a pogo stick tester in a minefield.

  Terry Pratchett

  Senior, Long, Magic

  "Moving Pictures". Book by Terry Pratchett, 1990.

• Haven't you got any romance in your soul?" said Magrat plaintively. "No," said Granny. "I ain't. And stars don't care what you wish, and magic don't make things better, and no one doesn't get burned who sticks their hand in a fire. If you want to amount to anything as a witch, Magrat Garlick, you got to learn three things. What's real, what's not real, and what's the difference.

  Terry Pratchett

  Stars, Real, Differences

  "Witches Abroad". Book by Terry Pratchett, 1991.

• Scientists have calculated that the chances of something so patently absurd actually existing are millions to one. But magicians have calculated that million-to-one chances crop up nine times out of ten.

  Terry Pratchett

  Good Luck, Science, Magic

• You can't kill me, I've got a magic... AAAARGH !

  Terry Pratchett

  Death, Suicide, Magic

• A Thaum is the basic unit of magical strength. It has been universally established as the amount of magic needed to create one small white pigeon or three normal-sized billiard balls.

  Terry Pratchett

  White, Magic, Three

  Terry Pratchett (2012). “The Wit and Wisdom of Discworld”, p.18, Harper Collins

• Many an ancient lord's last words have been, 'You can't kill me because I've got magic aaargh.'

  Terry Pratchett

  Death, Magic, Lasts

• This time it had been magic. And it didn't stop being magic just because you found out how it was done.

  Terry Pratchett

  Magic, Done, Discworld

• We've strayed into a zone with a high magical index,' he said. 'Don't ask me how. Once upon a time a really powerful magic field must have been generated here, and we're feeling the after-effects.' Precisely,' said a passing bush.

  Terry Pratchett

  Powerful, Feelings, Once Upon A Time

  Terry Pratchett (2012). “The Wit and Wisdom of Discworld”, p.5, Harper Collins

• It was octarine, the colour of magic. It was alive and glowing and vibrant and it was the undisputed pigment of the imagination, because wherever it appeared it was a sign that mere matter was a servant of the powers of the magical mind. It was enchantment itself. But Rincewind always thought it looked a sort of greenish-purple.

  Terry Pratchett

  Glowing, Purple, Imagination

  "The Colour of Magic". Book by ‎Terry Pratchett, 1983.

• Ninety percent of most magic merely consists of knowing one extra fact.

  Terry Pratchett

  Knowing, Magic, Facts

• What is magic? There is the wizard's explanation... wizards talk about candles, circles, planets, stars, bananas, chants, runes and the importance of having at least four good meals every day.

  Terry Pratchett

  Stars, Circles, Magic

  Terry Pratchett (2008). “Lords And Ladies: (Discworld Novel 14)”, p.141, Random House

• That's what's so stupid about the whole magic thing, you know. You spend twenty years learning the spell that makes nude virgins appear in your bedroom, and then you're so poisoned by quicksilver fumes and half-blind from reading old grimoires that you can't remember what happens next.

  Terry Pratchett

  Stupid, Reading, Years

  Terry Pratchett (2008). “The Colour Of Magic: (Discworld Novel 1)”, p.66, Random House

• And that's what I don't like about magic, Captain. 'cos it's *magic*. You can't ask questions, it's magic. It doesn't explain anything, it's magic. You don't know where it comes from, it's magic! That's what I don't like about magic, it does everything by magic!

  Terry Pratchett

  Magic, Doe, Captains

• Unseen University had never admitted women, muttering something about problems with the plumbing, but the real reason was an unspoken dread that if women were allowed to mess around with magic they would probably be embarrassingly good at it.

  Terry Pratchett

  Real, Magic, Unseen

  Terry Pratchett (2012). “The Wit and Wisdom of Discworld”, p.17, Harper Collins

• That's one form of magic, of course." "What, just knowing things?" "Knowing things that other people don't know.

  Terry Pratchett

  Knowing, People, Magic

  Terry Pratchett (2012). “The Wit and Wisdom of Discworld”, p.22, Harper Collins

• Magic never dies. It merely fades away.

  Terry Pratchett

  Magic, Fades, Dies

• This looks like a job for inadvisably applied magic if ever I saw one.

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  Jobs, Magic, Looks

  Terry Pratchett (2008). “Making Money: (Discworld Novel 36)”, p.464, Random House

• Unseen University was much bigger on the inside. Thousands of years as the leading establishment of practical magic in a world where dimensions were largely a matter of chance in any case had left it bulging in places where it shouldn't have places. There were rooms containing rooms which, if you entered them, turned out to contain the room you'd started with, which can be a problem if you are in a conga line.

  Terry Pratchett

  Years, Magic, Unseen

  "The Last Continent: A Discworld Novel".

• That's what I don't like about magic, it does everything by magic!

  Terry Pratchett

  Magic, Doe

  "Thud!". Book by Terry Pratchett, 2005.

• Perhaps the magic would last, perhaps it wouldn't. But then again, what does?

  Terry Pratchett

  Magic, Doe, Lasts

• 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.'

  Terry Pratchett

  Growing Up, Book, Mean

• The theater troubled her. It had a magic of its own, one that didn’t belong to her, one that wasn’t in her control. It changed the world, and said things were otherwise than they were. And it was worse than that. It was magic that didn’t belong to magical people. It was commanded by ordinary people, who didn’t know the rules. They altered the world because it sounded better.

  Terry Pratchett

  People, Magic, Ordinary

  Terry Pratchett (2008). “Wyrd Sisters: (Discworld Novel 6)”, p.304, Random House

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