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After you've been working fairly intensively on a novel for six months you never want to see the damn thing again.
Cats will amusingly tolerate humans only until someone comes up with a tin opener that can be operated with a paw.
Tell someone you are going to rob them and all that will happen is that you'll get a reputation as a truthful man.
I grow as many of our vegetables as I can, because my granddad was a professional gardener, and it's in the blood.
… you were so worried about legal and illegal that you never stopped to think about whether it was right or wrong.
Chain-mail isn't much defence against an arrow. It certainly isn't when the arrow is being aimed between your eyes.
Granny Weatherwax was not a good loser. From her point of view, losing was something that happened to other people.
Have a bit more patience with newbies. Of course some of them act dumb - they're often students, for heaven's sake.
There are things around, and I know where they can be got quite easily, but I quite like waking up to the sunshine.
It is possibly worth mentioning at this point that Mr. Young thought that paparazzi was a kind of Italian linoleum.
And all the stories had, somewhere, the witch. The wicked old witch. And Tiffany had thought: Where's the evidence?
He stared at his feet. “I’m still very ignorant,” he said, “but at least I’m ignorant about really important things.
Carpe Jugulum," read Agnes aloud. "That's... well, Carpe Diem is 'Sieze the Day,' so this means-" "Go for the throat
The entire universe has been neatly divided into things to (a) mate with, (b) eat, (c) run away from, and (d) rocks.
Everyone should occasionally break the law in some small and delightful way. It's good for the hygiene of the brain.
Some people think this is paranoia, but it isn't. Paranoids only think everyone is out to get them. Wizards know it.
escapism isn't good or bad in itself. what is important is what you are escaping from and where you are escaping to.
People who didn't need people needed people around to know that they were the kind of people who didn't need people.
The reason that clichés become clichés is that they are the hammers and screwdrivers in the toolbox of communication.
Just because someone's a member of an ethnic minority doesn't mean they're not a nasty small-minded little jerk [...]
Esk felt that bravery was called for, but on a night like this bravery lasted only as long as a candle stayed alight.
When you're all singing together, it brings things together. I know the songs that my grandfather and my father sang.
There are times in life when people must know when not to let go. Balloons are designed to teach small children this.
What's the good of having mastery over cosmic balance and knowing the secrets of fate if you can't blow something up?
She was convinced that she was anorexic, because every time she looked in the mirror she did indeed see a fat person.
"It would seem that you have no useful skill or talent whatsoever" he said. "Have you thought of going into teaching?"
It's lies. It's all lies. Some of them are just prettier than others, that's all. People see what they think is there.
He'd heard that writers spent all day in their dressing gowns drinking champagne. This is, of course, absolutely true.
[...] the awesome splendor of the universe is much easier to deal with if you think of it as a series of small chunks.
If cats looked like frogs we'd realize what nasty, cruel little bastards they are. Style. That's what people remember.
They can ta'k our lives but they can never ta'k our freedom!' Now there's a battle cry not designed by a clear thinker
Genius is always allowed some leeway, once the hammer has been pried from its hands and the blood has been cleaned up.
Real education happens when you pick up a fact here, and another fact there, and put them together and get an insight.
I'm not cruel, sir, I won't shoot you in the guts, but I will make you realize how much you took your toes for granted.
I wish that the people who sing about the deeds of heroes would think about the people who have to clear up after them.
I MAY HAVE ALLOWED MYSELF SOME FLICKER OF EMOTION IN THE RECENT PAST, said Death, BUT I CAN GIVE IT UP ANY TIME I LIKE.
His sister had been sent down to the village to ask Mistress Garlick the witch how you stopped spelling recommendation.
As a species, we are forever sticking our finger into the electric socket of the universe to see what will happen next.
The author can always delve into his own personality and find aspects of himself with which he can dress his characters.
It doesn't matter if dragons are flying overhead or whatever - a lot of Victoriana is still cut in the frame of fantasy.
I dare say that quite a few people have contemplated death for reasons that much later seemed to them to be quite minor.
I've never really liked the Yanks. ... You can't trust people who pick up the ball all the time when they play football.
All was black, gloomy and awful. There was no light at the end of the tunnel - or if there was, it was an oncoming train.
Nature abhors a lot of things, including vacuums, ships called the Marie Celeste, and the chuck keys for electric drills.
What kind of man would put a known criminal in charge of a major branch of government? Apart from, say, the average voter.
The presence of those seeking the truth is infinitely to be preferred to the presence of those who think they've found it.
Here's what I suggest," he said. "You pretend that rats can think, and I'll promise to pretend that humans can think, too.
And what had he wanted? He'd never sat down to think about it. But mostly, he wanted yesterday to be different from today.
Cats don't hunt seals. They would if they knew what they were and where to find them. But they don't, so that's all right.
I know three people who have got better after a brain tumour. I haven't heard of anyone who's got better from Alzheimer's.