All things are defined by names. Change the name, and you change the thing.
All tapes left in a car for more than about a fortnight metamorphose into Best of Queen albums.
According to the history books, the decisive battle that ended the Ankh-Morpork Civil War was fought between two handfuls of bone-weary men in a swamp early one misty morning and, although one side cl...
ALWAYS REMEMBER that the crowd that applauds your coronation is the same crowd that will applaud your beheading. People like a show.
ALL THINGS THAT ARE, ARE OURS. BUT WE MUST CARE. FOR IF WE DO NOT CARE, WE DO NOT EXIST. IF WE DO NOT EXIST, THEN THERE IS NOTHING BUT BLIND OBLIVION. AND EVEN OBLIVION MUST END SOMEDAY. LORD, WILL YO...
A witch who is bored might do ANYTHING.People said things like 'we had to make our own amusements in those days' as if this signified some kind of moral worth, and perhaps it did, but the last thing y...
A screaming vampire is always the centre of attention.
A number of religions in Ankh-Morpork still practiced human sacrifice, except that they didn't really need to practice any more because they had got so good at it.
A good plan isn't one where someone wins, it's where nobody thinks they've lost.
They wore their hair long like a poet who hopes that romantically flowing locks will make up for a wretched inability to find a rhyme for daffodil.
For the first time Rincewind saw the troll.It wasn’t half so bad as he had imagined.Umm, said his imagination after a while.It wasn’t that the troll was horrifying. Instead of the rotting, betentacled...
The food was good solid stuff for a cold morning, all calories and fat and protein and maybe a vitamin crying softly because it was all alone.
. . had decided what to do, which was to smile like the morning sun with a knife in its teeth.
True freedom is so terrible that only the mad or the divine can face it with open eyes.
[T]he princesses were beautiful as the day is long and so noble they, they could pee through a dozen mattresses
[...] the awesome splendor of the universe is much easier to deal with if you think of it as a series of small chunks.
Your power is only rumour and lies, she thought. You bore your way into people when they are uncertain and weak and worried and frightened, and they think their enemy is other people when their enemy...
Your friend Mr. Tulip would perhaps like part of your payment to be the harpsichord? said the chair.It's not a --ing harpsichord, it's a --ing virginal, growled Mr. Tulip. One --ing string to a note i...
Young man, the games we play are lessons we learn. The assumptions we make, things we ignore, and things we change make us what we become.
You took an oath to uphold the law and defend the citizens without fear or favor, said Vimes. And to protect the innocent. That's all they put in. Maybe they thought those were the important things. N...