People whose concept of ancient history is the first series of Star Trek may be treated with patience, because it's usually not their fault they were reduced to getting their education from school.

Priests were metal-reinforced overshoes. They saved your soles. This is an Assassin joke.

We sleepwalk through our lives, because how could we live if we were always this awake?

Because some stories end, but old stories go on, and you gotta dance to the music if you want to stay ahead

Many people, meeting Aziraphale for the first time, formed three impressions: that he was English, that he was intelligent, and that he was gayer than a treeful of monkeys on nitrous oxide.

Oh, where are my manners? Do sit down. Pull up a small child.

Cheery was aware that Commander Vimes didn't like the phrase 'The innocent have nothing to fear', believing the innocent had everything to fear, mostly from the guilty but in the longer term even more from those who say things like 'The innocent have nothing to fear'.