“Granny was an old-fashioned witch. She didnt do good for people, she did right by them.”

“And sin, young man, is when you treat people like things.”

“When people say things are a lot more complicated than that, they means they're getting worried that they won't like the truth.”

“You say that you people dont burn folk and sacrifice people anymore, but thats what true faith would mean, ysee? Sacrificin your own life, one day at a time, to the flame, declarin the truth of it,...”

“We were born vampires.""I thought you became "" vampires by being bitten? Dear me, no. Oh, we can turn people into vampires, its an easy technique, but what would be the point? When you eat now wha...”

“Its most unfair. Once people find out youre a vampire they act as if youre some kind of monster.”

“It would seem that you have no useful skill or talent whatsoever," he said. "Have you thought of going into teaching?”

“Men marched away, Vimes. And men marched back. How glorious the battles would have been that they never had to fight!”

“The world rides through space on the back of a turtle. This is one of the great ancient world myths, found wherever men and turtles were gathered together; the four elephants were an Indo-European ...”

“Most people, on waking up, accelerate through a quick panicky pre-consciousness check-up: who am I, where am I, who is he/she, good god, why am I cuddling a policeman's helmet, what happened last n...”

“Havent you got any romance in your soul? said Magrat plaintively. No, said Granny. 'I aint. And stars dont care what you wish, and magic dont make things better, and no one doesnt get burned who st...”

“There was a wicked ole witch once called Black Aliss. She was an unholy terror. There's never been one worse or more powerful. Until now. Because I could spit in her eye and steal her teeth, see. B...”

“I see your point. It irks you to see anyone at all who is able to work permitted to live without working. But why do you consider work a virtue?”

“Those who have wisdom have all:Fools with all have nothing.”

“Virtue is harder to be got than knowledge of the world; and, if lost in a young man, is seldom recovered.”