Give a man a fire and he's warm for a day, but set fire to him and he's warm for the rest of his life.
Every intelligent being, whether it breathes or not, coughs nervously at some time in its life.
Death was hereditary.You got it from your ancestors.
Colon thought Carrot was simple. Carrot often struck people as simple. And he was.Where people went wrong was thinking that simple meant the same thing as stupid.
But we were dragons. We were supposed to be cruel, cunning, heartless and terrible. But this much I can tell you, we never burned and tortured and ripped one another apart and called it morality.
Bad spelling can be lethal.
A lie can run round the world before the truth has got its boots on.
A metaphor ... is like lying but more decorative.
The neck in front of her came up. The head swivelled 180 degrees and the horse looked at Kin with bright insectile eyes.'YOUR WISH IS MY COMMAND,' it said inside Kin's head.'Hell!''THOSE ARE NOT MEANI...
Luck came to those who left a space for it.
Amazin'.' he said again. 'He just looks as though he's thinking, right?''Er...yes.''But he's not actually thinking?''Er...no.''So...he just gives the impression of thinking but really it's just a show...
The land around Ankh-Morpork is fertile and largely given over to the cabbage fields that help to give the city its distinctive odor.The gray light of pre-dawn unrolled over the blue-green expanse, an...
The most watched programme on the BBC, after the news, is probably 'Doctor Who.' What has happened is that science fiction has been subsumed into modern literature. There are grandparents out there wh...
Only in our dreams are we free. The rest of the time we need wages.
You see, the only thing the good people are good at is overthrowing the bad people. And you're good at that, I'll grant you. But the trouble is it's the only thing you're good at. One day it's the rin...
You know zat another term for an iconographer would be ‘photographer’? From the old word ‘photus’ in Latation, vhich means—‘To prance around like an idiot ordering everyone about as if you owned the p...
Witches were a bit like cats. They didn’t much like one another’s company, but they did like to know where all the other witches were, just in case they needed them.
Who shall I shoot? You choose. Now, listen very carefully: where's your coffee? You've got coffee, haven't you? C'mon, everyone's got coffee! Spill the beans!
We need to borrow your boat, said Vimes.Bugger off!I'm choosing to believe that was a salty nautical expression meaning 'Why, certainly,' said Vimes.
Was that what it was really like to be alive? The feeling of darkness dragging you forward?How could they live with it? And yet they did, and even seemed to find enjoyment in it, when surely the only...