Quote

Always remember that the crowd that applauds your coronation is the same crowd that will applaud your beheading. People like a show.

Terry Pratchett

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Terry Pratchett
Age: 66 †
Born: 1948
Born: April 28
Died: 2015
Died: March 12
Author
Journalist
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
Screenwriter
Writer
Beaconsfield
Buckinghamshire
Terence David John Terry Pratchett
Terence David John Pratchett
Sir Terry Pratchett
Sir Terence David John Pratchett
Show
Shows
Remember
Beheading
Always
Applauds
Like
Coronation
People
Applaud
Crowd
Crowds

More quotes by Terry Pratchett

Image
Building a temple didn't mean you believed in gods, it just meant you believed in architecture.
Terry Pratchett
Image
His progress through life was hampered by his tremendous sense of his own ignorance, a disability which affects all too few.
Terry Pratchett
Image
Legends don't have to make sense. They just have to be beautiful. Or at least interesting.
Terry Pratchett
Image
Its useful to go out of this world and see it from the perspective of another one.
Terry Pratchett
Image
But you ain't part of it, are you? said Granny conversationally. You try, but you always find yourself watchin' yourself watchin' people, eh? Never quite believin' anything? Thinkin' the wrong thoughts?
Terry Pratchett
Image
I read anything that’s going to be interesting. But you don’t know what it is until you’ve read it. Somewhere in a book on the history of false teeth there’ll be the making of a novel.
Terry Pratchett
Image
There's a saying that all roads lead to Ankh-Morpork. And it's wrong. All roads lead away from Ankh-Morpork, but sometimes people just walk along them the wrong way.
Terry Pratchett
Image
Sometimes you had to take a look at yourself and then look away.
Terry Pratchett
Image
All holy piety in public, and all peeled grapes and self-indulgence in private.
Terry Pratchett
Image
Blessings be on this house, Granny said, perfunctorily. It was always a good opening remark for a witch. It concentrated people's minds on what other things might be on this house.
Terry Pratchett
Image
After you've been working fairly intensively on a novel for six months you never want to see the damn thing again.
Terry Pratchett
Image
Everyone is reading what they like and that's a good thing.
Terry Pratchett
Image
You've got a lot of time for abstract thought when you've got your hand stuck up a dead badger.
Terry Pratchett
Image
Oh, there's plenty of reasons. I just don't know which one.
Terry Pratchett
Image
The shortest unit of time in the multiverse is the New York Second, defined as the period of time between the traffic lights turning green and the cab behind you honking.
Terry Pratchett
Image
A true beanie should have a propellor on the top.
Terry Pratchett
Image
They may have been ugly. They may have been evil. But when it came to poetry in motion, the Things had all the grace and coordination of a deck-chair.
Terry Pratchett
Image
She was a beefy young woman and, whatever piece of music she was playing, it was definitely losing.
Terry Pratchett
Image
I would advise budding writers some other kind of job, unless they think they're very, very lucky.
Terry Pratchett
Image
It seems sensible to me that we should look to the medical profession, that over the centuries has helped us to live longer and healthier lives, to help us die peacefully among our loved ones in our own home without a long stay in God's waiting room.
Terry Pratchett