Quote

Well, it would have to be “The Man Who Was Thursday.” It’s a damn good read that I believe should be read by everyone in politics.

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
Good
Thursday
Would
Damn
Men
Politics
Read
Everyone
Wells
Well
Believe

More quotes by Terry Pratchett

Image
Perhaps the magic would last, perhaps it wouldn't. But then again, what does?
Terry Pratchett
Image
First Sight means you can see what really is there, and Second Thoughts mean thinking about what you are thinking. And in Tiffany's case, there were sometimes Third Thoughts and Fourth Thoughts although these...sometimes led her to walk into doors.
Terry Pratchett
Image
There are thousands of good reasons why magic doesn't rule the world. They're called Witches and Wizards.
Terry Pratchett
Image
I found while driving in Wyoming that wearing a stetson and driving a beat-up pickup meant you could go as fast as you like, while the police picked up Californian winnebagos that went one mph over 55. After all, they wanted to bring money into the state, not merely circulate it.
Terry Pratchett
Image
Cats gravitate to kitchens like rocks gravitate to gravity.
Terry Pratchett
Image
Look, that's why there's rules, understand? So that you think before you break 'em.
Terry Pratchett
Image
It's a sword. said the Hogfather. They're not meant to be safe.
Terry Pratchett
Image
And all those exclamation marks, you notice? Five? A sure sign of someone who wears his underpants on his head.
Terry Pratchett
Image
Granny sighed. You have learned something, she said, and thought it safe to insert a touch of sternness into her voice. They say a little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but it is not one half so bad as a lot of ignorance.
Terry Pratchett
Image
Nanny Ogg never did any housework herself, but she was the cause of housework in other people.
Terry Pratchett
Image
Five exclamation marks: the sure sign of an insane mind.
Terry Pratchett
Image
Truly, he thought, the way of enlightenment is like unto half a mile of broken glass.
Terry Pratchett
Image
The only really sane person in there is Igor, and possibly the turnip. And I'm not sure about the turnip.
Terry Pratchett
Image
The thing with crowns is, it isn't the putting them on that's the problem, it's the taking them off.
Terry Pratchett
Image
A good banana daiquiri is hard to come by. I've only ever found one place in this country that makes a proper one, and that's in Leeds.
Terry Pratchett
Image
I hate cats. Death's face became a little stiffer, if that were possible. The blue glow in his eye sockets flickered red for an instant. I SEE, he said. The tone suggested that death was too good for cat haters.
Terry Pratchett
Image
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
Image
The fastest way to travel is to be there already.
Terry Pratchett
Image
Now that their long war was over, they could get on with the proper concern of all civilised nations, which is to prepare for the next one.
Terry Pratchett
Image
All I am really promoting in the books is the Golden Rule, which I hope everybody knows to be do as you would be done by. It has one or 2 flaws, but it is a good soundbite. Evil starts when you treat other people as things. There are perhaps worse crimes, but they begin when you treat other people as things.
Terry Pratchett