There were two ways of looking at the world, but only one when you are starving.
Money makes people rich; it is a fallacy to think it makes them better, or even that it makes them worse. People are what they do, and what they leave behind.
If you had enough money, you could hardly commit crimes at all. You just perpetrated amusing little peccadilloes.
A horse’s skull always looks scary, even if someone has put lipstick on it.
We live and learn, or, perhaps more importantly we learn and live.
Thinking. This book contains some. Whether you try it at home is up to you.
Granny Weatherwax was not a good loser. From her point of view, losing was something that happened to other people.
I don’t think it’s weak to admit you made a mistake. That takes strength, if you ask me.
The people who guard the rainbow don’t like those who get in the way of the sun.
Raise the stakes! Always push your luck because no one else would push it for you.
He was, he would be the first to admit, a coward, an incompetent, and not even very good at being a failure.
He’d been an angel once. He hadn’t meant to Fall. He’d just hung around with the wrong people.
Ordinary fortune-tellers tell you what you want to happen; witches tell you what’s going to happen whether you want it to or not. Strangely enough, witches tend to be more accurate but less popular.
It’s always surprising to be reminded that while you’re watching and thinking about people, all knowing and superior, they’re watching and thinking about you, right back at you.
See a pin and pick it up, and, all day long, you’ll have a pin.
The key to winning, as always, was looking as if you had every right, nay, duty to be where you were. It helped if you could also suggest in every line of your body that no one else had any rights to be doing anything, anywhere, whatsoever.
If you want to change a whole people, then you start with the girls. It stands to reason: they learn faster, and they pass on what they learn to their children.
One day all of us will die but – and this is the important thing – we are not dead yet.
People are often so busy living that they never stop to wonder why.
Evil in general does not sleep, and therefore doesn’t see why anyone else should.