Shadwell hated all southerners and, by inference, was standing at the North Pole.
Nanny Ogg never did any housework herself, but she was the cause of housework in other people.
It was like being in a Jane Austen novel, but one with far less clothing.
No. Men should die for lies. But the truth is too precious to die for.
He sighed. It had come to this. He was a responsible authority, and people could use terms like “core values” at him with impunity.
Lord Vetinari lifted an eyebrow with the care of one who, having found a piece of caterpillar in his salad, raises the rest of the lettuce.
It is possibly worth mentioning at this point that Mr. Young thought that paparazzi was a kind of Italian linoleum.
These people were not only cheering, they were throwing flowers and hats. The hats were made of stone, but the thought was there.
We’re on a mission from Glod.
She was a beefy young woman and, whatever piece of music she was playing, it was definitely losing.
The Captain of the Watch says if you’re still in the City by sunrise he will personally have you buried alive.
Look out! He’s got a daisy!
I have no use for people who have learned the limits of the possible.
It looked like the sort of book described in library catalogues as “slightly foxed”, although it would be more honest to admit that it looked as though it had beed badgered, wolved and possibly beared as well. – Ah, but has it been hedgehogged?
Mister Teatime had a truly brilliant mind, but it was brilliant like a fractured mirror, all marvellous facets and rainbows but, ultimately, also something that was broken.
Dedication: My thanks to the people who showed me that opera was stranger than I could imagine. I can best repay their kindness by not mentioning their names here.
The wages of sin is death but so is the salary of virtue, and at least the evil get to go home early on Fridays.
Tell someone you are going to rob them and all that will happen is that you’ll get a reputation as a truthful man.
People don’t like change. But make the change fast enough and you go from one type of normal to another.
A weapon you held and didn’t know how to use belonged to your enemy.