Because the world all twisted up and wrong, like distorted glass, only came back into focus if you looked at it through the bottom of a bottle.
What was it that Granny Weatherwax had said once? Evil starts when you begin to treat people as things. And right now it would happen if you thought there was a thing called a father, and a thing call...
Well,----me, he said. A----ing wizard. I hate----ing wizards! You shouldn’t----them, then, muttered one of his henchmen, effortlessly pronouncing a row of dashes.
Twoflower didn't just look at the world through rose-tinted spectacles, Rincewind knew--he looked at it through a rose-tinted brain, too, and heard it through rose-tinted ears.
There was no himself in himself.
People who didn't need people needed people around to know that they were the kind of people who didn't need people.
It's daft, locking us up, said Nanny. I'd have had us killed.That's because you're basically good, said Magrat. The good are innocent and create justice. The bad are guilty, which is why they invent m...
If you do not know where you come from, then you don't know where you are, and if you don't know where you are, then you don't know where you're going. And if you don't know where you're going, you're...
I'm sure it's all journalism [...] It means it's true enough for now.
I'VE NEVER BEEN VERY SURE ABOUT WHAT IS RIGHT, said Bill Door. I AM NOT SURE THERE IS SUCH A THING AS RIGHT. OR WRONG. JUST PLACES TO STAND.
I HAVE MADE THIS FOR YOU. She reached out and took a damp square of cardboard. Water dripped off the bottom. Somewhere in the middle, a few brown feathers seemed to have been glued on. 'Thank you. Er...
Gods didn’t mind atheists, if they were deep, hot, fiery, atheists like Simony, who spend their whole life hating gods for not existing. That sort of atheism was a rock. It was nearly belief …
Being Ymor's right-hand man was like being gently flogged to death with scented bootlaces.
It's like people care more about their pride than about what's correct, about the truth.
Ye mustn't be afraid to ask for help. Pride is a good thing, my girl, but it will kill you in time.
And that's what I don't like about magic, Captain. 'cos it's *magic*. You can't ask questions, it's magic. It doesn't explain anything, it's magic. You don't know where it comes from, it's magic! That...
The harder I work, the luckier I become.
Anyone with half a mind could see that," said Tiffany.Miss Tick sighed. "Yes. But sometimes it's so hard to find half a mind when you need one.
You want fantasy? Here's one... There's this species that lives on a planet a few miles above molten rock and a few miles below a vacuum that'd suck the air right out of them. They live in a brief geo...
You can't go around building a better world for people. Only people can build a better world for people. Otherwise it's just a cage.