Quotes
Don't you talk to me about progress. Progress just means bad things happen faster. (p. 305)
Racism was not a problem on the Discworld, because—what with trolls and dwarfs and so on—speciesism was more interesting. Black and white lived in perfect harmony and ganged up on green. (p. 201)
The nobles of Genua had enough experience to know what it means when a ruler says something is not compulsory. (p. 325).
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. (p. 282)
Genua had once controlled the river mouth and taxed its traffic in a way that couldn't be called piracy because it was done by the city government. (p. 176)
For wolves and pigs and bears, thinking that they're human is a tragedy. For a cat, it's an experience. (p. 268).
You can be as self-assertive as you like, I said, just so long as you do what you're told. (p. 20)
If you wanted to get anywhere in this world—and she'd decided, right at the start, that she wanted to get as far as it was possible to go—you wore names lightly, and you took power anywhere you found it. She had buried three husbands, and at least two of them had already been dead. (p. 14)
Light thinks it travels faster than anything but it is wrong. No matter how fast light travels it finds the darkness has always got there first, and is waiting for it. (p. 321)
Granny Weatherwax didn't like maps. She felt instinctively that they sold the landscape short. (p. 27)
The Yen Buddhists are the richest religious sect in the universe. They hold that the accumulation of money is a great evil and a burden to the soul. They therefore, regardless of personal hazard, see it as their unpleasant duty to acquire as much as possible in order to reduce the risk to innocent people. (p. 125)
Greebo turned upon Granny Weatherwax a yellow-eyed stare of self-satisfied malevolence, such as cats always reserve for people who don't like them, and purred. Greebo was possibly the only cat who could snigger in purr. (p. 48)
