If you take the long view, the universe is just something small and round, like those water filled balls which produce a miniature snowstorm when you shake them. * Although, unless the ineffable plan...
If he'd been a hero, he would have taken the opportunity to say, That's what I call sorted! Since he wasn't a hero, he threw up.
If I'd had to buy you, you wouldn't be worth the price.
I'll never be like this again . . . I'll never again feel as tall as the sky and as old as the hills and as strong as the sea. I've been given something for a while, and the price of it is that I have...
I would not like it thought that I do not buy my own paperclips, sir. I enjoy owning my own paperclips. It means they are mine.
I was merely endeavoring to indicate that if we do not grab events by the collar they will have us by the throat.-Lord Vetinari
I see embarrassment among all of you. That's good. The thing about being embarrassed is that sooner or later you aren't, but you remember that you were.
I know it’s not the right thing to say to a lady, miss, but you are sweating like a pig!My mother always said that horses sweat, men perspire, and ladies merely glow…Is that so? Well, miss, you are gl...
I don't want to hurt you, Mistress Weatherwax, said Mrs Gogol.That's good, said Granny. I don't want you to hurt me either.
I dinna trust him, said Slightly Mad Angus. He reads books an' such.
I THINK NOT. I WASN'T CUT OUT TO BE A FATHER, AND CERTAINLY NOT A GRANDAD. I HAVEN'T GOT THE RIGHT KIND OF KNEES.
Humans are always slightly lost. It's a basic characteristic.
How do they rise up?
His sister had been sent down to the village to ask Mistress Garlick the witch how you stopped spelling recommendation.
Here's what I suggest, he said. You pretend that rats can think, and I'll promise to pretend that humans can think, too.
He was, he would be the first to admit, a coward, an incompetent, and not even very good at being a failure.
He was said to have the body of a twenty-five year old, although no-one knew where he kept it.The point was that everyone else had someone, even if in Nobby’s case it was probably against their will.
He wanted to go home. He wanted it so much that he trembled at the thought. But if the price of that was selling good men to the night, if the price was filling those graves, if the price was not figh...
He sighed. It had come to this. He was a responsible authority, and people could use terms like core values at him with impunity.
He says gods like to see an atheist around. Gives them something to aim at.