Terry Pratchett Quotes

We must not contradict, but instruct him that contradicts us; for a madman is not cured by another running mad also.

A man who is 'of sound mind' is one who keeps the inner madman under lock and key.

Speech and silence. We feel safer with a madman who talks than with one who cannot open his mouth.

Don’t any of you realize that there is only one life between this madman and the Presidency.

A rigid, fanatic, ambitious, selfishly partisan and sectional turncoat with too much genius and too little common sense, who will either die a traitor or a madman.

That Martí is a madman — but a dangerous madman.

The draft's crazy. Everybody knows that.

That's why I sleep alone. My hair is curly, and that's why I have my ponytail. I look like a madman, like something out of a horror movie.

You know, people talk about [Richard] Nixon's "madman theory." We don't really know much about that. It was in memoirs, by somebody else.

Oh yes! The one man in the world who never believes he's mad is the madman.

Folk-lore means that the soul is sane, but that the universe is wild and full of marvels. Realism means that the world is dull and full of routine, but that the soul is sick and screaming. The problem of the fairy tale is: what will a healthy man do with a fantastic world? The problems of the modern novel is: what will a madman do with a dull world? In the fairy tales the cosmos goes mad; but the hero does not go mad. In the modern novels the hero is mad before the book begins, and suffers from the harsh steadiness and cruel sanity of the cosmos.

The tiny madman in his padded cell.

There is also a third kind of madness, which is possession by the Muses, enters into a delicate and virgin soul, and there inspiring frenzy, awakens lyric... But he, who, not being inspired and having no touch of madness in his soul, comes to the door and thinks he will get into the temple by the help of art - he, I say, and his poetry are not admitted; the sane man is nowhere at all when he enters into rivalry with the madman.

Victor Hugo was a madman who thought he was Victor Hugo

I have to lie, if I don't want to take madmen seriously and become a madman myself

The fellow is either a madman or a poet.

It is the act of a madman to pursue impossibilities .

Igor?' said Moist. 'You have an Igor?' Oh, yes,' said Hubert. 'That's how I get this wonderful light. They know the secret of storing lightning in jars! But don't let that worry you, Mr Lipspick. Just because I'm employing an Igor and working in a cellar doesn't mean I'm some sort of madman, ha ha ha!' Ha ha,' agreed Moist. Ha hah hah!,' said Hubert. 'Hahahahahaha!! Ahahahahahahhhhh!!!!!-' Bent slapped him on the back. Hubert coughed. Sorry about that, it's the air down here,' he mumbled.

We must not contradict, but instruct him that contradicts us; for a madman is not cured by another running mad also.

A man who is 100% sane is dead.

The people designing the weapons literally often didn't know how they were being handled in the field by the Air Force - and a lot of people in the Air Force didn't understand some of the dangers. There's a very strong element of madness in this.

Dispute not with her: she is lunatic.

Experience is mad when it steps beyond the horizons of our common, that is, our communal sense.

Never before did I realize that mental illness could have the aspect of power, power. Think of it: perhaps the more insane a man is, the more powerful he could become. Hitler an example. Fair makes the old brain reel, doesn't it?