There was no himself in himself.
The only thing known to go faster than ordinary light is monarchy, according to the philosopher Ly Tin Wheedle. He reasoned like this: you can't have more than one king, and tradition demands that the...
Never promise to do the possible. Anyone could do the possible. You should promise to do the impossible, because sometimes the impossible possible, if you could find the right way, and at least you c...
Miss Dearheart gave him a very brief look, and shook her head. There was movement under the table, a small fleshy kind of noise and the drunk suddenly bent forward, colour draining from his face. Prob...
Million-to-one chances...crop up nine times out of ten.
NEITHER RAIN NOR SNOW NOR GLOM OF NIT CAN STAY THESE MESENGERS ABOT THEIR DUTY
The harder I work, the luckier I become.
He was the sort of person who stood on mountaintops during thunderstorms in wet copper armour shouting 'All the Gods are bastards.
Taxation is just a sophisticated way of demanding money with menaces.
You're not going to tell me they built fifty-foot-high killer golems, are you?Only a man would think of that.It's our job, said Moist. If you don't think of fifty-foot-high killer golems first, someon...
There’s lots of people will help you with alcohol business, but there’s no one out there arranging little meetings where you can stand up and say, ‘My name is Sam Vimes and I’m a really suspicious bas...
There are some laws that are coded into the very nature of the universe, and one is: There Is Never Enough Shelf Space.
Modesty is only arrogance by stealth.
I believe you find life such a problem because you think there are good people and bad people. You're wrong, of course. There are, always and only, the bad people,
Fear is a strange soil. It grows obedience like corn, which grow in straight lines to make weeding easier. But sometimes it grows the potatoes of defiance, which flourish underground.
And so the children of the revolution were faced with the age-old problem: it wasn't that you had the wrong kind of government, which was obvious, but that you had the wrong kind of people. As soon as...
And he read all morning, but just to make it interesting, he put lots of dragons in it.
Always face what you fear. Have just enough money, never too much, and some string. Even if it’s not your fault, it’s your responsibility. Witches deal with things. Never stand between two mirrors. Ne...
A young man of godlilke proportions* was standing in the doorway.* The better class of gods, anyway. Not the ones with the tentacles, obviously.
[Science fiction is] out in the mainstream now. You can tell by the way mainstream literary authors pillage SF while denying they're writing it!