Discworld Quotes

All he had was nothing, but that was something, and now it had been taken away.

It's rude to stare," said the troll. Its mouth opened with a little crest of foam, and shut again in...

Of course, to be fair, that was a parent's job. The world was so full of sharp bends that if they di...

The world rides through space on the back of a turtle. This is one of the great ancient world myths,...

where actual evidence had been a bit sparse he had, in the best traditions of the keen ethnic histor...

Susan stared at him.The blue glow in Death’s eyes gradually faded, and as the light died it sucked a...

Ye mustn't be afraid to ask for help. Pride is a good thing, my girl, but it will kill you in time.

Why do you go away? So that you can come back. So that you can see the place you came from with new ...

never ask the tight-rope walker how he keeps his balance. if he stops to think about it, he falls of...

Is somethin' wrong?" said Daft Wullie."Aye!" snapped the kelda. "Rob willnae tak' a drink o' Special...

The smug mask of virtue triumphant could be almost as horrible as the face of wickedness revealed.

There are things so horrible that even the dark is afraid of them. Most people don't know this and t...

No enemies had ever taken Ankh-Morpork. Well technically they had, quite often; the city welcomed fr...

Commander, I always used to consider that you had a definite anti-authoritarian streak in you.”“Sir?...

Life could be horrible in the wrong trouser of time.

Several times he had to flatten himself against the shelves as a thesaurus thundered by. He waited p...

A good bookshop is just a genteel Black Hole that knows how to read.

You can't give her that!' she screamed. 'It's not safe!'IT'S A SWORD, said the Hogfather. THEY'RE NO...

I HAVE MADE THIS FOR YOU. She reached out and took a damp square of cardboard. Water dripped off the...

Men marched away, Vimes. And men marched back. How glorious the battles would have been that they ne...

History was full of the bones of good men who'd followed bad orders in the hope that they could soft...

Murder was in fact a fairly uncommon event in Ankh-Morpork, but there were a lot of suicides. Walkin...

We're dealing here," said Vimes, "With a twisted mind.""Oh, no! You think so?""Yes.""But... no... yo...

Silverfish looked down."Oh. Are you a dwarf?"Cuddy gave him a blank stare."Are you a giant?" He said...

His granny taught him to read, see. I reckon it overheated his mind.

It would seem that you have no useful skill or talent whatsoever," he said. "Have you thought of goi...

It was a Guild of Assassins, after all. Black was what you wore. The night was black and so were you...

Death paused. YOU HAVE PERHAPS HEARD THE PHRASE, he said, THAT HELL IS OTHER PEOPLE?‘Yes. Yes, of co...

There was a hell for blasphemers. There was a hell for disputers of rightful authority. There were a...

Gods didn’t mind atheists, if they were deep, hot, fiery, atheists like Simony, who spend their whol...

Susan hated Literature. She'd much prefer to read a good book.

I just think the world ought to be more sort of organized.''That's just fantasy,' said Twoflower.'I ...

On the Disc the gods dealt severely with atheists.

On the Kite, the situation was being 'workshopped'. This is the means by which people who don't know...

It's like chess, you know. The Queen saves the King.

Tiffany found her mind filling up with an invisible gray mist, and in that thought there was nothing...

For a witch stands on the very edge of everything, between the light and the dark, between life and ...

Tiffany thought of the little spot in the woods where Granny Weatherwax lay. Remembered. And knew th...

The end of times?" said Nanny. "Look, Tiff, Esme tol' me to say, if you want to see Esmerelda Weathe...

Then Tak looked upon the stone and it was trying to come alive, and Tak smiled, and wrote All things...

Tiffany knew what the problem was immediately. She'd seen it before, atbirthday parties. Her brother...

Captain Vimes believed in logic, in much the same way as a man in a desert believed in ice -- i.e., ...

Sybil’s female forebears had valiantly backed up their husbands as distant embassies were besieged, ...

Racism was not a problem on the Discworld, because—what with trolls and dwarfs and so on—speciesism ...