Oh, my dear Vimes, history changes all the time. It is constantly being re-examined and re-evaluated, otherwise how would we be able to keep historians occupied? We can't possibly allow people with th...
No more words. We know them all, all the words that should not be said. But you have made my world more perfect.
Maurice watched them argue again. Humans, eh? Think they're lords of creation. Not like us cats. We know we are. Ever see a cat feed a human? Case proven.
Life is a trick, and you get one chance to learn it.
Learning how not to do things is as hard as learning how to do them. Harder, maybe. There'd be a sight more frogs in this world if I didn't know how not to turn people into them. And big pink balloons...
Knowing things is magical, if other people don't know them.
Juliet's version of cleanliness was next to godliness, which was to say it was erratic, past all understanding and was seldom seen.
Jeremy tried to be an interesting person. The trouble was that he was the kind of person who, having decided to be an interesting person, would first of all try to find a book called How to Be An Inte...
It's beautiful, said Mort softly. What is it?THE SUN IS UNDER THE DISC, said Death.Is it like this every night?EVERY NIGHT, said Death. NATURE'S LIKE THAT.Doesn't anyone know?ME. YOU. THE GODS. GOOD,...
It was said that life was cheap in Ankh-Morpork. This was of course, completely wrong. Life was often very expensive; you could get death for free.
It was said that [Vetinari] would tolerate absolutely anything apart from anything that threatened the city*... [Footnote] And mime artists. It was a strange aversion, but there you are. Anyone in bag...
It was sad music. But it waved its sadness like a battle flag. It said the universe had done all it could, but you were still alive.
It was amazing how many friends you could make by being bad at things, provided you were bad enough to be funny.
It was all very well going on about pure logic and how the universe was ruled by logic and the harmony of numbers, but the plain fact of the matter was that the Disc was manifestly traversing space on...
It is said that the Devil has all the best tunes. This is broadly true. But Heaven has the best choreographers
It didn't look like the kind of snow that whispers down gently in the pit of the night and in the morning turns the landscape into a glittering wonderland of uncommon and ethereal beauty. It looked li...
In short, what people think they want is news, but what they really crave is olds.
I told her we were going to get married, and all she could talk about was frogs.She said there's these hills where it's hot and rains all the time, and in the rainforests there are these very tall tre...
I thought unicorns were more . . . Fluffy.
I never said nothing...I know you never! I could hear you not saying anything! You've got the loudest silences I ever did hear from anyone who wasn't dead!