You mean it's my destiny?" she said at last.Granny shrugged. “Something like that. Probably. Who knows?

The entire universe has been neatly divided into things to (a) mate with, (b) eat, (c) run away from, and (d) rocks.

...it is well known that a vital ingredient of success is not knowing that what you're attempting can't be done.

Million-to-one chances...crop up nine times out of ten.

Esk felt that bravery was called for, but on a night like this bravery lasted only as long as a candle stayed alight.

Do you know how wizards like to be buried?""Yes!""Well, how?"Granny Weatherwax paused at the bottom of the stairs."Reluctantly.

Red sky at night, the city's alight.

High magic requires a great clarity of thought, you see, and women's talents do not lie in that direction. Their brains tend to overheat.

You mean it's my destiny? she said at last.Granny shrugged. Something like that. Probably. Who knows?

A witch relied too much on words ever to go back on them.

She told me that if magic gives people what they want, then not using magic can give them what they need.

Courage isn’t being a dragon. Neither is it behaving like a dragon. Nor is it taking up arms to fight and defeat dragons. Courage is being a lamb standing with poise among dragons.

Is there not a sort of blood shed when the conscience is wounded? Through this wound a man's real manhood and immortality flow out, and he bleeds to an everlasting death

(Remember you always have the option of taking to the sea.)

We have rejected such spectacles as the Coliseum. How then, when we do not even look on killing lest we should contract guilt and pollution, can we put people to death?

Without democracy there is no freedom. Violence, no matter who is using it, is always reactionary.

I also hang the pictures low rather than high, and particularly in the case of the largest ones, often as close to the floor as is feasible, for that is the way they are painted.

The longer and the deeper the thought, the shorter the sentence of wisdom will be.

Sab kaa saath, sab kaa vikas. This is our mantra.

What is life? A madness. What is life? An illusion, a shadow, a story. And the greatest good is little enough: for all life is a dream, and dreams themselves are only dreams.

I don't take a great deal of interest in party politics. Social politics interests me a great deal more.