Discworld Quotes - Page 7

• 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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• At least I know I'm bewildered about the really fundamental and important facts of the universe.

  Terry Pratchett

  Science, Important, Fundamentals

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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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• What's the good of having mastery over cosmic balance and knowing the secrets of fate if you can't blow something up?

  Terry Pratchett

  Fate, Blow, Knowing

  "Reaper Man". Book by Terry Pratchett, 1991.

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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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• If you put butter and salt on it, it tastes like salty butter.

  Terry Pratchett

  Taste, Salt, Ifs

  Terry Pratchett (2009). “Moving Pictures: (Discworld Novel 10)”, p.31, Random House

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• The pamphlet was very patriotic. That is, it talked about killing foreigners.

  Terry Pratchett

  Patriotic, Killing, Foreigners

  "Monstrous Regiment (Discworld, Book 31)". Book by Terry Pratchett, 2003.

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• 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, Found

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• Million-to-one chances...crop up nine times out of ten.

  Terry Pratchett

  Luck, Nine, Chance

  "Equal Rites". Book by ‎Terry Pratchett, 1987.

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• 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

  Mean, People, Complicated

  Terry Pratchett (2008). “Carpe Jugulum: (Discworld Novel 23)”, p.314, Random House

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• This I choose to do. If there is a price, this I choose to pay. If it is my death, then I choose to die. Where this takes me, there I choose to go. I choose. This I choose to do.

  Terry Pratchett

  Pay, Take Me, Dies

  "Wintersmith". Book by Terry Pratchett, 2006.

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• Rincewind could scream for mercy in nineteen languages, and just scream in another forty-four.

  Terry Pratchett

  Nineteen, Four, Language

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• The figures looked more or less human. And they were engaged in religion. You could tell by the knives (it's not murder if you do it for a god).

  Terry Pratchett

  Knives, Murder, Figures

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

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• Probably the last man who knew how it worked had been tortured to death years before. Or as soon as it was installed. Killing the creator was a traditional method of patent-protection.

  Terry Pratchett

  Men, Years, Patents

  "Small Gods (Discworld, Book 13)". Book by Terry Pratchett (p. 307), 1992.

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• No. Men should die for lies. But the truth is too precious to die for.

  Terry Pratchett

  Lying, Men, Truth Is

  "Small Gods". Book by Terry Pratchett, en.wikiquote.org. 1992.

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• When you can flatten entire cities at a whim, a tendency towards quiet reflection and seeing-things-from-the-other-fellow's-point- of-view is seldom necessary.

  Terry Pratchett

  Reflection, Views, Cities

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

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• Natural selection saw to it that professional heroes who at a crucial moment tended to ask themselves questions like 'What is my purpose in life?' very quickly lacked both.

  Terry Pratchett

  Hero, Purpose, Saws

  Terry Pratchett (2008). “Interesting Times: (Discworld Novel 17)”, p.139, Random House

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• 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.

  Terry Pratchett

  Would Be, Definitions, Practicals

  "Going Postal". Book by Terry Pratchett, en.wikiquote.org. 2004.

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• That's why it's always worth having a few philosophers around the place. One minute it's all is truth beauty and is beauty truth, and does a falling tree in the forest make a sound if there's no one there to hear it, and then just when you think they're going to start dribbling one of 'em says, incidentally, putting a thirty-foot parabolic reflector on a high place to shoot the rays of the sun at an enemy's ships would be a very interesting demonstration of optical principles.

  Terry Pratchett

  Fall, Thinking, Feet

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

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• As they say in Discworld, we are trying to unravel the Mighty Infinite using a language which was designed to tell one another where the fresh fruit was.

  Terry Pratchett

  Trying, Fruit, Language

  Radio Show "Relatively Einstein" ("Fantasy Physics", Episode 3), www.bbc.co.uk. January 18, 2005.

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• 'Discworld' is taking something that you know is ridiculous and treating it as if it is serious, to see if something interesting happens when you do so.

  Terry Pratchett

  Interesting, Serious, Ridiculous

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• Ankh-Morpork! Pearl of cities! This is not a completely accurate description, of course — it was not round and shiny — but even its worst enemies would agree that if you had to liken Ankh-Morpork to anything, then it might as well be a piece of rubbish covered with the diseased secretions of a dying mollusc.

  Terry Pratchett

  Worst Enemy, Cities, Dying

  Terry Pratchett (2012). “The Wit and Wisdom of Discworld”, p.16, Harper Collins

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• There are no inconsistencies in the Discworld books; ocassionally, however, there are alternate pasts.

  Terry Pratchett

  Book, Past, Inconsistency

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• I think I work much harder on the children's books. I suppose I enjoy that. I find it interesting that although there are more than 30 books in the Discworld series, it is the four that were written for children which have won the awards. I've never been quite certain why this is.

  Terry Pratchett

  Children, Book, Thinking

  Interview conducted in advance of Terry Pratchett's National Book Festival appearance in Washington, D.C., www.epicreads.com. September 29, 2007.

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• The thing is, 'Discworld' had been going on for a very long time, and I've written children's books as well. Usually when people have a really big series they franchise it, which I thought is a bit of a no-no, so I thought what I'd do is I'd franchise it to myself.

  Terry Pratchett

  Children, Book, Long

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