They suffered from the terrible delusion that something could be done. They seemed prepared to make the world the way they wanted it or die in the attempt, and the trouble with dying in the attempt wa...
They sometimes forgot what happened if you let a pawn get all the way up the board.
They say this fruit be like unto the world / So sweet. Or like, say I, the heart of man / So red without and yet within, unclue’d / We find the worm, the rot, the flaw. / However glows his bloom the b...
They say that the prospect of being hanged in the morning concentrates a man's mind wonderfully; unfortunately, what the mind inevitably concentrates on is that, in the morning, it will be in a body t...
They looked up. Someone with a face and apron that said ‘barman’ in seven hundred languages was standing over them, a wine jug in each hand.No women in here, he went on.Why not? said Nobby.No women as...
They know that people need witches; they need the unofficial people who understand the difference between right and wrong, and when right is wrong and when wrong is right. The world needs the people w...
These weren't cheap modern books; these were books bound in leather, and not just leather, but leather from clever cows who had given their lives for literature after a happy existence in the very bes...
These are the Things that Make a ManIron enough to make a nail,Lime enough to paint a wall,Water enough to drown a dog,Sulphur enough to stop the fleas,Potash enough to wash a shirt,Gold enough to buy...
There’s no a lot of laughs in an underworld. This one used to be called Limbo, ya ken, ’cause the door was verra low.
There's some things we can't think because we don't know the words.
There was something about the eyes. It wasn’t the shape or the color. The was no evil glint. But there was…… a look. It was such a look that a microbe might encounter if it could see up from the botto...
Then there was the puzzle of why the sun came out during the day, instead of at night when the light would come in useful.
The universe contains any amount of horrible ways to be woken up, such as the noise of the mob breaking down the front door, the scream of fire engines, or the realization that today is the Monday whi...
The trouble with life was that you didn’t get a chance to practice before doing it for real.
The secret is not to dream, she whispered. The secret is to wake up. Waking up is harder. I have woken up and I am real. I know where I come from and I know where I'm going. You cannot fool me any mor...
The reason that the rich were so rich, Vimes reasoned, was because they managed to spend less money. Take boots, for example. He earned thirty-eight dollars a month plus allowances. A really good pair...
The philosopher Didactylos has summed up an alternative hypothesis as Things just happen. What the hell.
The people of Ankh-Morpork had a straightforward, no-nonsense approach to entertainment, and while they were looking forward to seeing a dragon slain, they'd be happy to settle instead for seeing some...
The men in the room suddenly realized that they did not want to know her better. She was beautiful, but she was beautiful in the way a forest fire was beautiful: something to be admired from a distanc...
The good are innocent and create justice. The bad are guilty, which is why they invent mercy.