Terry Pratchett quotes by subject - Chris Jones

Complete collection of Terry Pratchett quotes by subject and cross-referenced

Royalty - Terry Pratchett Quote

11/11/2015

'I should have thought you'd be all for kings.'
'Some of them were fearful oiks, you know,' she said airily. 'Wives all over the place, and chopping people's heads off, fighting pointless wars, eating with their knife, chucking half-eaten chicken legs over their shoulders, that sort of thing. Not our sort of people at all.' (GG)

Rules - Terry Pratchett quote

11/11/2015

'Do you think picking someone up by their ankles and bouncing their head on the floor comes under the heading of Striking a Superior Officer?' (GG)

Business - Terry Pratchett quote

11/10/2015

... Cut-me-own-Throat Dibbler, purveyor of absolutely anything that could be sold hurriedly from an open suitcase in a busy street and was guaranteed to have fallen off the back of an oxcart. (GG)

Heroes - Terry Pratchett quote

11/10/2015

... what the boy seemed most interested in was mirrors. Probably hero material .... (GG)

Appearance - Terry Pratchett quote

11/10/2015

Flourishing, of course, was important. It didn't have much to do with wielding. Wielding a sword, the Supreme Grand Master considered, was simply the messy business of dynastic surgery. It was just a matter of cut and thrust. Whereas a King had to flourish one. It had to catch the light in just the right way, leaving watchers in no doubt that here was Destiny's chosen. (GG)

Human Behaviour - Terry Pratchett quote

11/10/2015

It was amazing, this mystic business. You tell them a lie, and then when you don't need it any more you tell them another lie and tell them they're progressing along the road to wisdom. Then instead of laughing they follow you even more, hoping that at the heart of all the lies they'll find the truth. And bit by bit they accept the unacceptable. Amazing. (GG)

Inability - Terry Pratchett quote

11/10/2015

The Librarian indicated with some surprisingly economical gestures that most wizards would not find their own bottom with both hands. (GG)

Nature - Terry Pratchett quote

11/10/2015

That's Nature for you in a nutshell. Always dealing off the bottom of the pack.
No wonder they called her a mother ... (GG)

Conversation - Terry Pratchett quote

11/10/2015

The Librarian rolled his eyes. It was strange, he felt, that so-called intelligent dogs, horses and dolphins never had any difficulty indicating to humans the vital news of the moment e.g., that the three children were lost in the cave, or the train was about to take the line leading to the bridge that had been washed away or similar, while he, only a handful of chromosomes away from wearing a vest, found it difficult to persuade the average human to come out in the rain. (GG)

Rules - Terry Pratchett quotes

11/10/2015

... laws governing the animal kingdom did not apply to the Librarian. On the other hand, the Librarian himself was never very interested in obeying the laws governing the human kingdom, either. He was one of those little anomalies you have to build around. (GG)

Aristocracy - Terry Pratchett quote

11/10/2015

People in Scoone Avenue had old money, which was supposed to be much better than new money, although Captain Vimes had never had enough of either to spot the difference. People in Scoone Avevue had their own personal bodyguards. People in Scoone Avenue were said to be so aloof they wouldn't even talk to the gods. This was a slight slander. They would talk to gods, if they were well-bred gods of decent family. (GG)

Survival - Terry Pratchett quote

11/10/2015

Nobby had survived any number of famous massacres by not being there. (GG)

Equality - Terry Pratchett quote

11/10/2015

Colon was a sizeist, at least when it came to people smaller than himself. (GG)

Survival - Terry Pratchett quote

11/10/2015

... You walk along the Streets at Night shouting, It's Twelve O'clock and All's Well. I said, What if it is not all well, and he said, You bloody find another street. (GG)

Luggage - Terry Pratchett quote

11/10/2015

The Luggage had a straightforward way of dealing with things between it and its intended destination: it ignored them. (E)

All the published works of Terry Pratchett, including Discworld and non-Discworld novels is included in this quotes by subject listing