The duke had a mind that ticked like a clock and, like a clock, it regularly went cuckoo.

Carpe Jugulum," read Agnes aloud. "That's... well, Carpe Diem is 'Sieze the Day,' so this means-" "Go for the throat

When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man I put away childish things because. wow, then I could afford much *better* childish things!

This is where the gods play games with the lives of men, on a board which is at one and the same time a simple playing area and the whole world. And Fate always wins.

Just because someone's a member of an ethnic minority doesn't mean they're not a nasty small-minded little jerk [...]

As we all know, the Discworld is a flat planet - like a geological pizza, but without the anchovies.

Natural selection saw to it that professional heroes who at a crucial moment tended to ask themselves questions like 'What is my purpose in life?' very quickly lacked both.