I hate cats.Death's face became a little stiffer, if that were possible. The blue glow in his eye sockets flickered red for an instant.I SEE, he said. The tone suggested that death was too good for ca...
I heard the Empire has a tyrannical and repressive government!What form of government is that? said Ponder Stibbons.A tautology, said the Dean, from above.
I imagine that fish have no word for water.
I know about sureness,' said Didactylos. 'I remember, before I was blind, I went to Omnia once. And in your Citadel I saw a crowd stoning a man to death in a pit. Ever seen that?''It has to be done,'...
I see evil when I look in my shaving mirror. It is, philosophically, present everywhere in the universe in order, apparently, to highlight the existence of good. I think there is more to this theory,...
If the Creator had said, Let there be light in Ankh-Morpork, he'd have got no further because of all the people saying What colour?
If you don't know when to be a human being, you don't know when to be a witch.
If you let your mind dwell on rooms like this, you could end up being oddly sad and full of a strange diffuse compassion which would lead you to believe that it might be a good idea to wipe out the wh...
If you try to to take my bananas from me, I will reclaim them from your cold dead hands.
It's an unfair world, Child. Be glad you have friends.
Living this long's not as wonderful as people think. I mean, you get the same amount of youth as everyone else, but a great big extra helping of being very old and deaf and creaky.
Maybe the only significant difference between a really smart simulation and a human being was the noise they made when you punched them.
Mistress Weatherwax, you are a natural disputant. No I ain’t!
My personal theory is that he has a very firm grasp upon reality, it's simply not a reality the rest of us have ever met before.
No matter what she did with her hair it took about three minutes for it to tangle itself up again, like a garden hosepipe in a shed [Which, no matter how carefully coiled, will always uncoil overnight...
No one knew where you were before you were born, but when you were born, it wasn't long before you found you'd arrived with your return ticket already punched.
OH. DRAMA.Oh, hell.
Our rulers rule by consent, which means that we like having them as rulers, if they do what we want them to do.
People build something that works. Then circumstances change, and they have to tinker with it to make it continue to work, and they are so busy tinkering that they cannot see that a much better idea w...
People look down on stuff like geography and meteorology, and not only because they're standing on one and being soaked by the other. They don't look quite like real science. But geography is only phy...
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