Mrs Pratchett Quotes

#1. But William felt in his bones that you couldn't run a city on the basis of what the Watch liked. The Watch would probably like it if everyone spent their time indoors, with their hands on the table where people could see them.

Terry Pratchett

#2. We are as gods to beasts of the field. We order the time of their birth and the time of their death. Between times, we have a duty.

Terry Pratchett

#3. Well done,' said a voice somewhere behind him. 'Consciousness to sarcasm in five seconds!

Terry Pratchett

#4. Adam looked at Them. They were his kind of people, too.
You just had to decide who your friends really were.

Terry Pratchett

#5. It was nice to hear the voices of little children at play, provided you took care to be far enough away not to hear what they were actually saying.

Terry Pratchett

#6. Build a man a fire and he's warm for a day," I said. "But set a man on fire and he's warm for the rest of his life. Tao of Pratchett.

Jim Butcher

#7. The key to having good scales is a healthy diet of venison when you're just a wee dragon lad.

Sully Tarnish

#8. They writes some bits o' their letters in them wee codies. That's a terrible thing tae do to a reader. It's hard enough readin' the normal words, wi'oot somebody jumblin' them all up.

Terry Pratchett

#9. Tiffany was on the whole quite a truthful person, but it seemed to her that there were times when things didn't divide easily into 'true' and 'false', but instead could be 'things that people needed to know at the moment' and 'things that they didn't need to know at the moment'.

Terry Pratchett

#10. There was no safety. There was no pride. All there was, was money. Everything became money, and money became everything. Money treated us as if we were things, and we died.

Terry Pratchett

#11. I know it's not thematically in tune with my new job and all, but I find it effective. Build a man a fire and he's warm for a day," I say. "But set a man on fire and he's warm for the rest of his life. Tao of Pratchett. I live by it.

Jim Butcher

#12. In memory of Terry Pratchett,
who showed us all how it's done

Charles Stross

#13. HAVE YOU EVER BITTEN REDHOT ICE CUBE? THAT'S CURRY.

Terry Pratchett

#14. Sooner or later all things are numbers, yes?

Terry Pratchett

#15. You don't have to test everything to destruction just to see if you make it right.

Terry Pratchett