Although the scythe isn't pre-eminent among the weapons of war, anyone who has been on the wrong end of, say, a peasants' revolt will know that in skilled hands it is fearsome.
Although she was aware that somewhere under her complicated strata of vests and petticoats there was some skin, that didn't mean to say she approved of it.
Agnes felt that beauty was even more likely to be in the eye of the beholder if the feet of the beholder were on something solid. At ten thousand feet up, the eye of the beholder tends to water.
Ach, people are always telling us not to do things said Rob Anybody, that's how we ken the most interesting things to do.
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...
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 horse's skull always looks scary, even if someone has put lipstick on it.
The little man's total obliviousness to all forms of danger somehow made danger so discouraged that it gave up and went away.
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...
'I thought the rule was that all monks were shaved.''Oh, Soto says he is bald under the hair,'said Lu Tze. 'He says the hair is a separate creature that just happens to live on him.
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.
All reputable falconers agreed that for hunting purposes the only way you could reliably bring down prey with a wowhawk was by using it in a slingshot.
What people mean to do and what is done are two different things
True freedom is so terrible that only the mad or the divine can face it with open eyes.
The whole point of the wish business was to see to it that what the client got was exactly what he asked for and exactly what he didn't really want.
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...
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...
You know what the greatest tragedy is in the whole world? said Ginger, not paying him the least attention. It’s all the people who never find out what it is they really want to do or what it is they’r...
You can’t say ‘if this didn’t happen then that would have happened’ because you don’t know everything that might have happened. You might think something’d be good, but for all you know it could have...