Bill Door was impressed. Miss Flitworth could actually give the word "revenue", which had two vowels and one diphthong, all the peremptoriness of the word "scum.

Her singing always cheered him up. Life seemed so much brighter when she stopped.

Racism was not a problem on the Discworld, because - what with trolls and dwarfs and so on - speciesism was more interesting. Black and white lived in perfect harmony and ganged up on green.

Nanny Ogg knew how to start spelling 'banana', but didn't know how you stopped.

Colon thought Carrot was simple. Carrot often struck people as simple. And he was. Where people went wrong was thinking that simple meant the same thing as stupid.

Nothing but dust and fundamentalists.

I have no use for people who have learned the limits of the possible.