If you put butter and salt on it, it tastes like salty butter.
If you kept changing the way people saw the world, you ended up changing the way you saw yourself.
If you have let pride get the better of you, then you have already lost, but if you grab pride by the scruff of the neck and ride it like a stallion, then you may have already won.
If the Creator had said, Let there be light in Ankh-Morpork, he'd have got no further because of all the people saying What colour?
I? KILL? said Death, obviously offended. CERTAINLY NOT. PEOPLE GET KILLED, BUT THAT'S THEIR BUSINESS. I JUST TAKE OVER FROM THEN ON. AFTER ALL, IT'D BE A BLOODY STUPID WORLD IF PEOPLE GOT KILLED WITHO...
I'm not bloody well going to have it, understand? Vimes shouted, shaking the ape back and forth.Oook, the Librarian pointed out, patiently.What? Oh. Sorry. Vimes lowered the ape, who wisely didn't mak...
I notice you didn't laugh, Mr. Black!''No, Your Majesty. We are forbidden to laugh at the things kings say, sire, because otherwise we would be at it all day.
I mean, you're right about the fire and war, all that. But that Rapture stuff--well, if you could see them all in Heaven--serried ranks of them as far as the mind can follow and beyond, league after l...
I could hear you not saying anything! You’ve got the loudest silences I ever did hear from anyone who wasn’t dead!
History has to be observed. Otherwise it’s not history. It’s just … well, things happening one after another.
His progress through life was hampered by his tremendous sense of his own ignorance, a disability which affects all too few.
Hilta laughed like someone who had thought hard about Life and had seen the joke.
Hello, little girl, he said, which was only his first big mistake. I'm sure want to know all about hedgehogs, eh?I did this one last year, said Tiffany.The man looked closer, and his grin faded. Oh,...
He's probably their battle poet, too. You mean he makes up heroic songs about famous battles? No, no. He recites poems that frighten the enemy....When a well-trained gonnagle starts to recite, the ene...
He'd missed dogs. Dogs added something that even people didn't, and one of the dogs was sitting by his feet, here in the darkness and the gentle rain. It wasn't bothered much about the rain or what mi...
He'd always known that the world was an interesting place, and his imagination had peopled it with pirates and bandits and spies and astronauts and similar. But he'd also had a nagging suspicion that,...
He thought about how it might be to be, say, a fox confronted with an angry sheep. A sheep moreover, that could afford to employ wolves.
He takes the view that mornings happen to other people. I think I once saw him at breakfast, although possibly it was just someone who looked a bit like him who was lying with their head in the plate...
He shrugged. - They're just people - he said. - They're just doing what people do. Sir.Lord Vetinari gave him a friendly smile.- Of course, of course - he said. - You have to believe that, I appreciat...
He reflected briefly that someone up there was watching over him. 'Thanks a lot,' he said bitterly.