But that was just it - hate was exactly the right word. Hate is a force of attraction. Hate is just love with its back turned.

Always remember that the crowd that applauds your coronation is the same crowd that will applaud your beheading. People like a show.

Smaller-than-Medium-Jock-but-bigger-than-Wee-Jock-Jock

When in doubt, choose to live.

But…but you can’t treat religion as a sort of buffet, can you? I mean, you can’t say yes please, I’ll have some of the Celestial Paradise and a helping of the Divine Plan but go easy on the kneeling and none of the Prohibition of Images, they give me wind. Its table d´hôte or nothing, otherwise…well, it would be silly.

A number of religions in Ankh-Morpork still practiced human sacrifice, except that they didn't really need to practice any more because they had got so good at it.

What was supposed to be so special about a full moon? It was only a big circle of light. And the dark of the moon was only darkness. But halfway between the two, when the moon was between the worlds of light and dark, when even the moon lived on the edge...maybe then a witch could believe in the moon.