It's daft, locking us up," said Nanny. "I'd have had us killed." "That's because you're basically good," said Magrat. "The good are innocent and create justice. The bad are guilty, which is why they invent mercy.

As large as worlds. As old as Time. As patient as a brick.

Witches aren’t like that. We live in harmony with the great cycles of Nature, and do no harm to anyone, and it’s wicked of them to say we don’t. We ought to fill their bones with hot lead.

What do you call those things at the bottom of rivers? Frogs? Stones? Unsuccessful gangsters?

Look, that's why there's rules, understand? So that you think before you break 'em.

Gods don't like people not doing much work. People who aren't busy all the time might start to think.

It was the heart of any scam or fiddle -- keep the punter uncertain, or, if he is certain, make him certain of the wrong thing.