English En
  • Deutsche De
  • English En
  • Français Fr
  • Русский Ru

We use cookies to personalise content and ads, to provide social media features and to analyse our traffic. We also share information about your use of our site with our marketing and analytics partners who may combine it with other information you've provided to them or which they've separately collected from you. You also may to see our Privacy Policy. By clicking the OK button below, you accept our cookies.

Authors:

Terry Prachett Quotes

And this was known as that greatest of treasures, which is Hope. It was a good way of getting poorer really very quickly, and staying poor. It could be you. But it wouldn't be.

Terry Prachett

About author

Related Authors

Topics

Quotes currently Trending

There are characters in movies who I call 'film characters.' They don't exist in real life. They exist to play out a scenario. They can be in fantastic films, but they are not real characters; what happens to them is not lifelike. Philip Seymour Hoffman
I hate to hear you talk about all women as if they were fine ladies instead of rational creatures. None of us want to be in calm waters all our lives. Jane Austen
Fred Durst quote: "I do think that some bands seem to be dabbling in the..."
I do think that some bands seem to be dabbling in the rock-hip-hop world and are not necessarily serious about it. Fred Durst
George Farquhar quote: "There is no scandal like rags, nor any crime so shameful as..."
There is no scandal like rags, nor any crime so shameful as poverty. George Farquhar
I wish I had only offered you a sovereign instead of ten pounds. Give me back nine pounds, Jane; I’ve a use for it.' 'And so have I, sir,' I returned, putting my hands and my purse behind me. 'I could not spare the money on any account.' 'Little niggard!' said he, 'refusing me a pecuniary request! Give me five pounds, Jane.' 'Not five shillings, sir; nor five pence.' 'Just let me look at the cash.' 'No, sir; you are not to be trusted. Charlotte Bronte
Jean-Paul Sartre quote: "There is only one day left, always starting over: it is given..."
There is only one day left, always starting over: it is given to us at dawn and taken away from us at dusk. Jean-Paul Sartre
Sometimes he dug in his garden; again, he read or wrote. He had but one word for both these kinds of toil; he called them gardening. "The mind is a garden," said he. Victor Hugo
I go through major crises every few months, but then I have great peaks of belief and creativity. I'm a weird kind of animal. Brian May
Wow ? said Dennis, as though nobody in their wildest dreams could hope for more than being thrown into a storm-tossed, fathoms-deep lake, and pushed out of it again by a giant sea monster. J. K. Rowling
The communist model does not work economically, we all realised that, but the capitalist model in the modern world also looks to be unsustainable. Arsene Wenger
Red Auerbach quote: "Natural abilities are like natural plants; they need pruning..."
Natural abilities are like natural plants; they need pruning by study. Red Auerbach
Maggie Gallagher quote: "When a marriage culture fails, sexual desire no longer unites;..."
When a marriage culture fails, sexual desire no longer unites; instead it fragments. Maggie Gallagher
Cultural speciation had been crippling to human moral and spiritual growth. It had hindered freedom of thought, limited our thinking, imprisoned us in the cultures into which we had been born. . . . These cultural mind prisons. . . . Cultural speciation was clearly a barrier to world peace. So long as we continued to attach more importance to our own narrow group membership than to the ‘global village’ we would propagate prejudice and ignorance. Jane Goodall
Barbara Boxer quote: "I would love to see a march on Washington that says 'Save our..."
I would love to see a march on Washington that says 'Save our Social Security'. Barbara Boxer
So another challenge for our generation is to create global institutions that reflect our ideas of fairness and responsibility, not the ideas that were the basis of the last stage of financial development over these recent years. Gordon Brown