You say that you people don’t burn folk and sacrifice people anymore, but that’s what true faith would mean, y’see? Sacrificin’ your own life, one day at a time, to the flame, declarin’ the truth of i...
You needed at least three witches for a coven. Two witches was just an argument.
You don’t understand! screamed the tourist, above the terrible noise of the wingbeats. All my life I’ve wanted to see dragons!From the inside? shouted Rincewind. Shut up and ride!
You did what you were told or you didn't get paid, and if things went wrong it wasn't your problem. It was the fault of whatever idiot has accepted this message for sending in the first place. No one...
You Bastard was thinking: there seems to be some growing dimensional instability here, swinging from zero to nearly forty-five degrees by the look of it. How interesting. I wonder what’s causing it? L...
Ye ken, we've been robbin' and running aroound on all kinds o' worlds for a lang time, and I'll tell ye this: The universe is a lot more comp-li-cated than it looks from the ooutside.
Ye gods, it was so much better when there were just four of us up against that bloody great dragon, Vimes thought as they walked on. Of course, we nearly got burned alive a few times, but at least it...
Words have always had the power to change the world.
Witches have animals they can talk to, called familiars. Like your toad there.I'm not familiar, said a voice from among the paper flowers. I'm just slightly presumptuous.
Witches aren’t like that. We live in harmony with the great cycles of Nature, and do no harm to anyone, and it’s wicked of them to say we don’t. We ought to fill their bones with hot lead.
Where I come from, Annagramma, they have the Sheepdog Trials. Shepherds travel there from all over to show off their dogs. And there're silver crooks and belts with silver buckles and prizes of all ki...
When much is taken, something is returned.
When a human doctor, after much bleeding and cupping, finds that a patient has died out of sheer desperation, he can always say, Dear me, will of the gods, that will be thirty dollars please, and walk...
What's a philosopher?' said Brutha.Someone who's bright enough to find a job with no heavy lifting,' said a voice in his head.
What was supposed to be so special about a full moon? It was only a big circle of light. And the dark of the moon was only darkness. But halfway between the two, when the moon was between the worlds o...
What can the harvest hope for, if not for the care of the Reaper Man?
Well, basically there are two sorts of opera, said Nanny, who also had the true witch's ability to be confidently expert on the basis of no experience whatsoever. There's your heavy opera, where basic...
Walter Plinge said: You know she asked me a very silly question Mrs Ogg! It was a silly question any fool knows the answer!Oh, yes, said Nanny. About houses on fire, I expect...Yes! What would I take...
Vimes's lack of interest in other people's children was limitless.
Vimes struggled to his feet, shook his head and set off after it. No thought was involved. It is the ancient instinct of terriers and policemen to chase anything that runs away.