You can either be on the stage, just a performer, just going through the lines... or you can be outside it, and know how the script works, where the scenery hangs, and where the trapdoors are.
Yes, sir, thank you, sir, and I wouldn’t trust me one little inch, sir. I knows a bad one when I sees them. I have a mirror.
YOU MUST LEARN THE COMPASSION PROPER TO YOUR TRADEAnd what's that?A SHARP EDGE.
Words are the litmus paper of the minds. If you find yourself in the power of someone who will use the word commence in cold blood, go somewhere else very quickly. But if they say Enter, don't stop to...
Words are the litmus paper of the mind.
While evidence says that the road to hell is paved with good intentions, they're probably all on first steps.
When you look into the abyss, it’s not supposed to wave back.
When you die, the first thing you lose is your life. The next thing is your illusions.
When people say things are a lot more complicated than that, they means they're getting worried that they won't like the truth.
What’s magic, eh? Just wavin’ a stick an’ sayin’ a few wee magical words. An’ what’s so clever aboot that, eh? But lookin’ at things, really lookin’ at ’em, and then workin’ ’em oout, now, that’s a re...
What will you do? said Susan. Lie, said Lu-Tze happily. It’s amazing how often that works.
What was the point of education, he thought, if people went out afterward and used it?
Wen considered the nature of time and understood that the universe is, instant by instant, re-created anew. Therefore, he understood, there is, in truth, no Past, only a memory of the Past. Blink your...
Welcome to , Moist said to himself. It's hope, turned inside out.
We've strayed into a zone with a high magical index,' he said. 'Don't ask me how. Once upon a time a really powerful magic field must have been generated here, and we're feeling the after-effects.'Pre...
We thought the fireworks were marvelous, said Mort. And I expect they'll soon be able to rebuild the outer wall.
WHAT WOULD HAVE HAPPENED IF YOU HADN'T SAVED HIM?Yes! The sun would have risen just the same, yes?NOOh, come on. You can't expect me to believe that. It's an astronomical fact.THE SUN WOULD NOT HAVE R...
Vimes had never mastered ambition. It was something that happened to other people.
Verence would rather cut his own leg off than put a witch in prison, since it'd save trouble in the long run and probably be less painful.
Usually he didn’t bother the gods, and he hoped the gods wouldn’t bother him. Life was quite complicated enough.