What was once considered impossible is now quite easily achieved. Kings and lords come and go and leave nothing but statues in a desert, while a couple of young men tinkering in a workshop change the...
The IQ of a mob is the IQ of its most stupid member divided by the number of mobsters,
Y’know,’ he said, ‘it’s very hard to talk quantum using a language originally designed to tell other monkeys where the ripe fruit is.
Your average witch is not, by nature, a social animal as far as other witches are concerned. There's a conflict of dominant personalities. There's a group of ringleaders without a ring. There's the ba...
You know, I never imagined there were he-dryads. Not even in an oak tree.One of the giants grinned at him.Druellae snorted. Stupid! Where do you think acorns come from?
You had to hand it to the Patrician, he admitted grudgingly. If you didn't, he sent men to come and take it away.
YOU MUST LEARN THE COMPASSION PROPER TO YOUR TRADEAnd what's that?A SHARP EDGE.
Writing stays. It fastens words down. A man can speak his mind and some nasty wee scuggan will write it down and who knows what he’ll do with those words? Ye might as weel nail a man’s shadow tae the...
Wizards don't believe in gods in the same way that most people don't find it necessary to believe in, say, tables. They know they're there, they know they're there for a purpose, they'd probably agree...
Why not? If enough people believe, you can be god of anything…
Why does everyone run toward a blood-curdling scream? mumbled the Senior Wrangler. It's contrary to all sense.
Who really knew what evil lurked in the heart of men?ME.Who knew what sane men were capable of?STILL ME, I’M AFRAID.Vimes glanced at the door of the last room. No, he wasn’t going in there again. No w...
Well, yes, but it's not about the football.You're saying that football is not about football?It's the sharing, she said. It's being part of the crowd. It's chanting together. It's all of it. the whole...
Well, the news has got around. The Duchess of Keepsake has invited us to a ball, Sir Henry and Lady Withering have invited us to a ball, and Lord and Lady Hangfinger have invited us to... yes, a ball....
Well, I think, said Nobby, that when you rule out the impossible, whatever is left, however improbable, ain't worth hanging around for on a cold night wonderin' about when you could be getting on the...
We thought the fireworks were marvelous, said Mort. And I expect they'll soon be able to rebuild the outer wall.
We put all our politicians in prison as soon as they’re elected. Don’t you? Why? It saves time.
We live and learn, or, perhaps more importantly we learn and live.
WITCHES ARE MATRILINEAL, said Death. THEY FIND IT MUCH EASIER TO CHANGE MEN THAN TO CHANGE NAMES.
Vimes' meeting with the Patrician ended as all such meetings did, with the guest going away in possession of an unfocused yet very nagging suspicion that he'd only just escaped with his life.