It is a long-cherished tradition among a certain type of military thinker that huge casualties are the main thing. If they are on the other side then this is a valuable bonus.

It had a very long pendulum, and the pendulum swung with a slow tick-tock that set his teeth on edge, because it was the the kind of delibrate, annoying ticking that wanted to make it abundantly clear that every tick and every tock was stripping another second off your life.

Granny knew all about bad fortune-telling. It was harder than the real thing. You needed a good imagination.

Chaos is found in greatest abundance wherever order is being sought. It always defeats order, because it is better organized.

Wisdom is one of the few things that looks bigger the further away it is.

He felt that the darkness was full of unimaginable horrors - and the trouble with unimaginable horrors was that they were only too easy to imagine.

Granny Weatherwax was not a good loser. From her point of view, losing was something that happened to other people.