Vimes woke in damp and utter darkness with sand under his cheek. Some parts of his body reported for duty, others protested that they had a note from their mother.
Truth is female, since truth is beauty rather than handsomeness; this, Ridcully reflected as the council grumbled in, would certainly explain the saying that a lie could run around the world before Tr...
Tomorrow here is just like yesterday, warmed over.
To be frank, I find religion rather offensive.
Tiffany got up early and lit the fires. When her mother came down, she was scrubbing the kitchen floor, very hard.Er…aren’t you supposed to do that sort of thing by magic, dear? said her mother, who’d...
This was music that had not only escaped, but had robbed a bank on the way out. It was music with its sleeves rolled up and its top button undone, raising its hat and grinning and stealing the silver.
There were only three times in your life when it was proper to come through the front door, and you were carried every time.
There have been times, lately, when I dearly wished that I could change the past. Well, I can’t, but I can change the present, so that when it becomes the past it will turn out to be a past worth havi...
There are hardly any excesses of the most crazed psychopath that cannot easily be duplicated by a normal kindly family man who just comes in to work every day and has a job to do.
There are eight levels of wizardry on the Disc; after sixteen years Rincewind has failed to achieve even level one. In fact it is considered opinion of some of his tutors that he is incapable even of...
Then she wondered, not for the first time, about the differences between wizards and witches. The main difference, she thought, was that wizards used books and staffs to create spells, spells about b...
The trouble with being a god is that you've got no one to pray to.
The sun is simple. A sword is simple. A storm is simple. Behind everything simple is a huge tail of complicated.
The Yen Buddhists are the richest religious sect in the universe. They hold that the accumulation of money is a great evil and a burden to the soul. They therefore, regardless of personal hazard, see...
The Departure Aria, a very important and romantic song -
That's the way it was. Privilege, which just means 'private law.' Two types of people laugh at the law; those that break it and those that make it.
Take it from me, whenever you see a bunch of buggers puttering around talking about truth and beauty and the best way of attacking Ethics, you can bet your sandals it's all because dozens of other poo...
Sometimes thinking is like talking to another person, but that person is also you.
Something Vimes had learned as a young guard drifted up from memory. If you to look along the shaft of an arrow from the wrong end, if a man has you entirely at his mercy, then hope like hell that ma...
Shoes, men, coffins; never accept the first one you see.