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My character - and for that matter my worst habits - could only be described by someone else. You can't open a box with the crowbar inside it.

My character - and for that matter my worst habits - could only be described by someone else. You can't open a box with the crowbar inside it.

Terry Pratchett
Character, Matter, Habit
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One day a tortoise will learn how to fly.

Terry Pratchett
One Day, Tortoises, Small Gods
"Small Gods". Book by Terry Pratchett, 1992.

Just call in at the torturer on your way out. See when he can fit you in.

Terry Pratchett
Way, Fit
Terry Pratchett (2008). “Wyrd Sisters: (Discworld Novel 6)”, p.82, Random House

Speak softly and employ a huge man with a crowbar.

Terry Pratchett
Men, Speak, Speak Softly
Terry Pratchett (2008). “Going Postal: (Discworld Novel 33)”, p.121, Random House

She walked quickly through the darkness with the frank stride of someone who was at least certain that the forest, on this damp and windy night, contained strange and terrible things and she was it.

Terry Pratchett
Night, Darkness, Forests
"Wyrd Sisters". Book by Terry Pratchett, 1988.

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

There should be a word for that brief period just after waking when the mind is full of warm pink nothing. You lie there entirely empty of thought, except for a growing suspicion that heading towards you, like a sockful of damp sand in a nocturnal alleyway, are all the recollections you'd really rather do without, and which amount to the fact that the only mitigating factor in your horrible future is the certainty that it will be quite short.

Terry Pratchett
Lying, Mind, Facts

Lord Vetinari lifted an eyebrow with the care of one who, having found a piece of caterpillar in his salad, raises the rest of the lettuce.

Terry Pratchett
Eyebrows, Pieces, Care
Terry Pratchett (2008). “Making Money: (Discworld Novel 36)”, p.22, Random House

Mister Teatime had a truly brilliant mind, but it was brilliant like a fractured mirror, all marvellous facets and rainbows but, ultimately, also something that was broken.

Terry Pratchett
Mirrors, Broken, Rainbow
Terry Pratchett (2008). “Hogfather: (Discworld Novel 20)”, p.28, Random House

When much is taken, something is returned.

Terry Pratchett
Taken
Terry Pratchett (2008). “Nation”, p.46, Random House

They say that the prospect of being hanged in the morning concentrates a man's mind wonderfully; unfortunately, what the mind inevitably concentrates on is that, in the morning, it will be in a body that is going to be hanged.

Terry Pratchett
Morning, Men, Mind
"Going Postal". Book by ‎Terry Pratchett, 2004.

Ye know full well that the meaning of life is to find your gift. To find your gift is happiness. Never tae find it is misery.

Terry Pratchett
Meaning Of Life, Misery, Life Is

Few things are hidden from a quiet child with good eyesight.

Terry Pratchett
Children, Quiet, Eyesight
Terry Pratchett (2008). “The Wee Free Men: (Discworld Novel 30)”, p.80, Random House

Witches aren’t like that. We live in harmony with the great cycles of Nature, and do no harm to anyone, and it’s wicked of them to say we don’t. We ought to fill their bones with hot lead.

Terry Pratchett
Wicked, Hot, Witch

The jurisdiction of a good man extends to the end of the world.

Terry Pratchett
Men, Good Man, End Of The World
Terry Pratchett (2011). “Snuff: (Discworld Novel 39)”, p.204, Random House

Well, the news has got around. The Duchess of Keepsake has invited us to a ball, Sir Henry and Lady Withering have invited us to a ball, and Lord and Lady Hangfinger have invited us to... yes, a ball." "Well, that's a lot of..." "Don't you dare, Sam.

Terry Pratchett
Balls, News, Lords And Ladies

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
Pride, Safety, Treated

The sun is simple. A sword is simple. A storm is simple. Behind everything simple is a huge tail of complicated.

Terry Pratchett
Simple, Storm, Tails
Terry Pratchett (2010). “I Shall Wear Midnight: (Discworld Novel 38)”, p.92, Random House

Who knew what evil lurked in the hearts of men? A copper, that's who. (...)You saw how close men lived to the beast. You realized that people like Carcer were not mad. They were incredibily sane. They were simply men without a shield. They'd looked at the world and realized that all the rules didn't have to apply to them, not if they didn't want them to. They weren't fooled by all the little stories. They shook hands with the beast.

Terry Pratchett
Heart, Men, Hands

When you break rules, break 'em good and hard

Terry Pratchett
Ems, Break, Hard

ASTONISHING, said Death. REALLY ASTONISHING. LET ME PUT FORWARD ANOTHER SUGGESTION: THAT YOU ARE NOTHING MORE THAN A LUCKY SPECIES OF APE THAT IS TRYING TO UNDERSTAND THE COMPLEXITIES OF CREATION VIA A LANGUAGE THAT EVOLVED IN ORDER TO TELL ONE ANOTHER WHERE THE RIPE FRUIT WAS.

Terry Pratchett
Order, Trying, Suggestions

Questions don't have to make sense, Vincent," said Miss Susan. "But answers do.

Terry Pratchett
Missing, Answers, Said
"Thief of Time". Book by Terry Pratchett, 2001.

Do not act incautiously when confronting a little bald wrinkly smiling man!

Terry Pratchett
Men, Littles, Confronting
"Thief Of Time". Book by Terry Pratchett, 2001.

History always has a few tricks up its frayed sleeve. It's been around a long time.

Terry Pratchett
Long, History, Tricks
Terry Pratchett (2012). “The Wit and Wisdom of Discworld”, p.34, Harper Collins

Too much magic could wrap time and space around itself, and that wasn't good news for the kind of person who had grown used to things like effects following things like causes.

Terry Pratchett
Space, Magic, News
"Sourcery". Book by Terry Pratchett, 1988.

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