Well done,' said a voice somewhere behind him. 'Consciousness to sarcasm in five seconds!
She felt livid. They'd all lost so many powers. It was ridiculous to have to communicate by flapping bits of your skin, and as for the tongue... Yuerkkk ...As far as she knew, in the whole life of the...
Once you gave a thing a name you gave it a life.
It's lies. It's all lies. Some of them are just prettier than others, that's all. People see what they think is there.
I have to ask, sir...Why does it have to be done like this?Vetinari smiled. Can you keep a secret, Mister Lipwig?Oh, yes, sir. I've kept lots.Capital. And the point is, so can I. You do not need to kn...
Sybil’s female forebears had valiantly backed up their husbands as distant embassies were besieged, had given birth on a camel or in the shade of a stricken elephant, had handed around the little gold...
Listen, Peaches, is what humans are all about, said the voice of Maurice. They're so keen on tricking one another all the time that they elect governments to do it for them.
Oh yes? Can you identify yourself?-Certainly. I'd know me anywhere.
Truth! Freedom! Justice! And a hard-boiled egg!
The rising sun managed to peek around the vast column of smoke that forever rose from Ankh-Morpork, City of Cities, illustrating almost up to the edge of space that smoke means progress or, at least,...
Susan hated Literature. She'd much prefer to read a good book.
I believe in reincarnation, [Bjorn] said.I KNOW.I tried to live a good life. Does that help?THAT’S NOT UP TO ME. Death coughed. OF COURSE... SINCE YOU BELIEVE IN REINCARNATION... YOU’LL BE BJORN AGAIN...
What is normal? Normal is yesterday and last week and last month taken together
Everyone knew there were wolves in the mountains, but they seldom came near the village - the modern wolves were the offspring of ancestors that had survived because they had learned that human meat h...
Cats, Dog considered, were clearly a lot tougher than lost souls
Humans need fantasy to be human.
… you were so worried about legal and illegal that you never stopped to think about whether it was right or wrong.
There was no safety. There was no pride. All there was, was money. Everything became money, and money became everything. Money treated us as if we were things, and we died.
The worst part, the part, was that Lord de Worde was never wrong. It was not a position he understood in relation to his personal geography. People who took an opposing view were insane, or dangerous...
But too much reading had taken its toll. William found that he now thought of prayer as a sophisticated way of pleading with thunderstorms.