The pen is mightier than the sword ... if the sword is very short, and the pen is very sharp.
There isn't a way things should be. There's just what happens, and what we do.
You can't trust folk songs. They always sneak up on you.
Anyway, why would you trust anything written down? She certainly didn't trust "Mothers of Borogravia!" and that was from the government. And if you couldn't trust the government, who could you trust? Very nearly everyone, come to think of it.
Don't stick your nose where someone can pull it off and eat it.
People couldn't become truly holy, he said, unless they also had the opportunity to be definitively wicked.