Discworld Quotes - Page 6

• We've got a lot of experience of not having any experience

  Terry Pratchett

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

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• Inside every sane person there’s a madman struggling to get out.

  Terry Pratchett

  Struggle, Fantasy, Madmen

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• Whatever happens, they say afterwards, it must have been fate. People are always a little confused about this, as they are in the case of miracles. When someone is saved from certain death by a strange concatenation of circumstances, they say that's a miracle. But of course if someone is killed by a freak chain of events -- the oil spilled just there, the safety fence broken just there -- that must also be a miracle. Just because it's not nice doesn't mean it's not miraculous.

  Terry Pratchett

  Confused, Nice, Mean

  "Interesting Times". Book by Terry Pratchett, 1994.

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• I meant," said Ipslore bitterly, "what is there in this world that truly makes living worthwhile?" Death thought about it. CATS, he said eventually. CATS ARE NICE.

  Terry Pratchett

  Life, Death, Nice

  Terry Pratchett (2017). “Terry Pratchett's Discworld Coloring Book”, p.42, Simon and Schuster

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• 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.

  Terry Pratchett

  Funny, Life, Intelligent

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• They say a little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but it's not one half so bad as a lot of ignorance.

  Terry Pratchett

  Funny, Learning, Ignorance

  Terry Pratchett (2009). “Equal Rites: (Discworld Novel 3)”, Random House

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• Getting an education was a bit like a communicable sexual disease. It made you unsuitable for a lot of jobs and then you had the urge to pass it on.

  Terry Pratchett

  Jobs, Disease, Made

  Terry Pratchett (2008). “Hogfather: (Discworld Novel 20)”, p.38, Random House

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• Cutangle: While I'm still confused and uncertain, it's on a much higher plane, d'you see, and at least I know I'm bewildered about the really fundamental and important facts of the universe. Treatle: I hadn't looked at it like that, but you're absolutely right. He's really pushed back the boundaries of ignorance. They both savoured the strange warm glow of being much more ignorant than ordinary people, who were only ignorant of ordinary things.

  Terry Pratchett

  Confused, Ignorance, People

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• The Battle of Koom Valley is the only one known to history where both sides ambushed each other.

  Terry Pratchett

  History, Battle, Sides

  Terry Pratchett (2008). “Men At Arms: (Discworld Novel 15)”, p.54, Random House

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• Always be wary of any helpful item that weighs less than its operating manual.

  Terry Pratchett

  Helpful, Manuals, Items

  Terry Pratchett (2009). “Jingo: (Discworld Novel 21)”, p.255, Random House

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• Verence would rather cut his own leg off than put a witch in prison, since it'd save trouble in the long run and probably be less painful.

  Terry Pratchett

  Running, Cutting, Long

  Terry Pratchett (2008). “Lords And Ladies: (Discworld Novel 14)”, p.41, Random House

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• She'd become a governess. It was one of the few jobs a known lady could do. And she'd taken to it well. She'd sworn that if she did indeed ever find herself dancing on rooftops with chimney sweeps she'd beat herself to death with her own umbrella.

  Terry Pratchett

  Jobs, Taken, Dancing

  "Hogfather". Book by Terry Pratchett, 1996.

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• You can't inspire people with facts. They need a cause. They need a symbol.

  Terry Pratchett

  People, Inspire, Needs

  "Small Gods". Book by Terry Pratchett, 1992.

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• Genius is always allowed some leeway, once the hammer has been pried from its hands and the blood has been cleaned up.

  Terry Pratchett

  Blood, Hands, Hammers

  "Thief of Time: A Novel of Discworld". Book by Terry Pratchett, 2001.

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• Everything starts somewhere, though many physicists disagree. But people have always been dimly aware of the problem with the start of things. They wonder how the snowplough driver gets to work, or how the makers of dictionaries look up the spelling of words.

  Terry Pratchett

  People, Looks, Problem

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• A number of religions in Ankh-Morpork still practiced human sacrifice, except that they didn't really need to practice any more because they had got so good at it.

  Terry Pratchett

  Sacrifice, Practice, Numbers

  "Guards! Guards!". Book by Terry Pratchett, 1989.

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• You can't trample infidels when you're a tortoise. I mean, all you could do is give them a meaningful look.

  Terry Pratchett

  Meaningful, Giving, Looks

  "Small Gods (Discworld, Book 13)". Book by Terry Pratchett (p. 20), 1992.

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• If there was anything that depressed him more than his own cynicism, it was that quite often it still wasn't as cynical as real life.

  Terry Pratchett

  Real, Cynical, Fantasy

  Terry Pratchett (2016). “Seriously Funny: The Endlessly Quotable Terry Pratchett”, p.9, Random House

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• What's a philosopher?' said Brutha. Someone who's bright enough to find a job with no heavy lifting,' said a voice in his head.

  Terry Pratchett

  Jobs, Voice, Philosopher

  "Small Gods". Book by Terry Pratchett, 1992.

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• We who think we are about to die will laugh at anything.

  Terry Pratchett

  Death, Thinking, Laughing

  Terry Pratchett (2002). “Night watch”, Doubleday UK

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

  Terry Pratchett

  Knowing, Magic, Facts

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• His movements could be called cat-like, except that he did not stop to spray urine up against things.

  Terry Pratchett

  Cat, Movement, Spray

  Terry Pratchett (2002). “Night watch”, Doubleday UK

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• Rumour is information distilled so finely that it can filter through anything. It does not need doors and windows -- sometimes it does not need people. It can exist free and wild, running from ear to ear without ever touching lips.

  Terry Pratchett

  Running, Doors, People

  Terry Pratchett (2008). “Feet Of Clay: (Discworld Novel 19)”, p.84, Random House

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• This is Art holding a Mirror up to Life. That’s why everything is exactly the wrong way around.

  Terry Pratchett

  Art, Mirrors, Way

  Terry Pratchett (2008). “Wyrd Sisters: (Discworld Novel 6)”, p.312, Random House

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• There are, always and only, the bad people, but some of them are on opposite sides.

  Terry Pratchett

  Funny Inspirational, Opposites, People

  Terry Pratchett (2008). “Guards! Guards!: (Discworld Novel 8)”, p.177, Random House

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