The English were notoriously unenthusiastic about burning witches. I suppose ours were too soggy.
As we all know, the Discworld is a flat planet – like a geological pizza, but without the anchovies.
A world like that, which exists only because the gods enjoy a joke, must be a place where magic can survive. And sex too, of course.
London was not designed for cars. Come to that, it wasn’t designed for people. It just sort of happened. This created problems, and the solutions that were implemented became the next problems, five or ten or a hundred years down the line.
All was black, gloomy and awful. There was no light at the end of the tunnel – or if there was, it was an oncoming train.
So, mistletoe, in fact, symbolizes mistletoe.
There are, almost by definition, an unlimited number of Hells – potentially at least a personal one for every living sapient being.
Voodoo is a very interesting religion for the whole family, even those members of it who are dead.
Chain-mail isn’t much defence against an arrow. It certainly isn’t when the arrow is being aimed between your eyes.
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.
People who used magic without knowing what they were doing usually came to a sticky end. All over the entire room, sometimes.
Granny knew all about bad fortune-telling. It was harder than the real thing. You needed a good imagination.
In the end the problem isn’t that you have the wrong sort of government for the People, but that you have the wrong sort of People.
Ultimately, there is the freedom to take the consequences.
A push-and-go wooden duck on wheels can cause quite a lot of damage if wielded with enough force.
Vampires have risen from the dead, the grave, and the crypt, but have never managed it from the cat.
Not for the first time in the history of the universe, someone for whom communication normally came as effortlessly as a dream was stuck for inspiration when faced with a few lines on the back of a card.
Happiness is not the natural state of mankind, and is never achieved from the outside in.
Granny Weatherwas was not a jouster in the lists of love, but, as an intelligent onlooker, she knew how the game was played.
Granny Weatherwax was firmly against fiction. Life was hard enough without lies floating around and changing the way people thought.