Monsters are getting more uppity, too (...) I heard where this guy, he killed this monster in this lake, no problem, stuck its arm up over the door (...) and you know what? Its mum come and complained. Its actual mum come right down to the hall next day and complained. Actually complained. That's the respect you get.

I can see we're going to get along like a house on fire," said Miss Tick. "There may be no survivors.

There have been times, lately, when I dearly wished that I could change the past. Well, I can’t, but I can change the present, so that when it becomes the past it will turn out to be a past worth having.

It takes a special kind of person to fight back.

When a man is tired of Ankh-Morpork, he is tired of ankle-deep slurry.

It's a sword. said the Hogfather. They're not meant to be safe.

I was just a kid then. But I won't forget. Nor will others. There's lots of people with reason to hate the Church.