Terry Pratchett Quotes

Ah, go boil yer heads, both of yeh", said Hagrid. “Harry — yer a wizard.

As we Wizards go, I'm pretty harmless.

I love being a wizard. Every day is like Disneyland.

I was always interested in enchantment and magicians and still am.

I don't particularly have any magical ambitions, but then, I never did. I just enjoyed the game.

Magic is really performing special effects live.

Magic has universal appeal. I don't believe in magic in the way that I describe in my books, but I'd love it to be real.

I am a wizard, not a baboon brandishing a stick.

My understanding of magic is fairly straightforward. Hit enemies with a sword until they’re dead. If they rise again, hit them again. Repeat as necessary. It worked against Set.

The trouble is, the other side can do magic too, Prime Minister.

Magic has often been thought of us the art of making dreams come true; the art of realizing visions. Yet before we can bring birth to the vision we have to see it.

Artemis Fowl grinned right back at him and pointed his index finger to the sky... from the tip of this finger sprang a small blue spark that exploded like a tiny firework. “I know magic can be stolen,” said Artemis. “Because I stole some myself.

Magic. It can get a guy killed.

Wizard's Eighth Rule Talga Vassternich. (Deserve Victory)

What is merely a hypothesis to anyone else is an overwhelming temptation to a wizard.

I love magic and playing with magic systems. But to me, good fantasy like all fiction comes down to good character and plotting.

There is magic, but you have to be the magician. You have to make the magic happen.

I have lived with magic and without magic, and I can tell you with certainty that a life with magic is better.

Do not meddle in the affairs of wizards because a refusal often offends, I read somewhere.

I'm a wizard and I know it.

He hardly ever spoke of magic, and when he did it was like a history lesson and no one could bear to listen to him.

What is magic? There is the wizard's explanation... wizards talk about candles, circles, planets, stars, bananas, chants, runes and the importance of having at least four good meals every day.

Sorcery is the sauce fools spoon over failure to hide the flavor of their own incompetence.

Magic: it was what happened when the mind met the world, and the mind won for a change.

I put the ick in magic.