Terry Pratchett quotes

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

— Terry Pratchett

“Everything starts somewhere, although many physicists disagree.”

— Terry Pratchett

“Fantasy is an exercise bicycle for the mind. It might not take you anywhere, but it tones up the muscles that can. Of course, I could be wrong.”

— Terry Pratchett

“Five exclamation marks, the sure sign of an insane mind.”

— Terry Pratchett

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

— Terry Pratchett

“He was the sort of person who stood on mountaintops during thunderstorms in wet copper armour shouting "All the Gods are bastards."”

— Terry Pratchett

“In ancient times cats were worshipped as gods; they have not forgotten this.”

— Terry Pratchett

“It's not worth doing something unless you were doing something that someone, somewere, would much rather you weren't doing.”

— Terry Pratchett

“Light thinks it travels faster than anything but it is wrong. No matter how fast light travels, it finds the darkness has always got there first, and is waiting for it.”

— Terry Pratchett

“Most gods throw dice, but Fate plays chess, and you don't find out til too late that he's been playing with two queens all along.”

— Terry Pratchett

“Only in our dreams are we free. The rest of the time we need wages.”

— Terry Pratchett

“Sometimes it is better to light a flamethrower than curse the darkness.”

— Terry Pratchett

“Sooner or later we're all someone's dog.”

— Terry Pratchett

“Taxation is just a sophisticated way of demanding money with menaces.”

— Terry Pratchett

“The intelligence of the creature known as a crowd, is the square root of the number of people in it.”

— Terry Pratchett

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

— Terry Pratchett

“Writing is the most fun you can have by yourself.”

— Terry Pratchett