You're saying, ' he said, weighing each word, 'that we should send Carrot away to be a duck among humans because Bjorn Stronginthearm is my uncle.

If there was anything that depressed him more than his own cynicism, it was that quite often it still wasn't as cynical as real life.

A good bookshop is just a genteel Black Hole that knows how to read.

Noble dragons don't have friends. The nearest they can get to the idea is an enemy who is still alive.

Perhaps the magic would last, perhaps it wouldn't. But then again, what does?

Life could be horrible in the wrong trouser of time.

... a metaphor ... is like lying but more decorative.

But we were dragons. We were supposed to be cruel, cunning, heartless and terrible. But this much I can tell you, we never burned and tortured and ripped one another apart and called it morality.

Might have just been an innocent bystander, sir, ’ said Carrot‘What, in Ankh-Morpork?’‘Yes, sir.’‘We should have grabbed him, then, just for the rarity value

All dwarfs have beards and wear up to twelve layers of clothing. Gender is more or less optional.

Being able to feel love, loyalty, gratitude and happiness means you have a soul? Then all my pets are bound for heaven.

Zero Expectations? What's that? I believe in Smart Expectations.

Science is built up of facts, as a house is with stones. But a collection of facts is no more a science than a heap of stones is a house.

destruction is ultimately self-destruction.

I'm not studying everything that can go wrong. What I'm studying is how much love there can be, even when everything appears to be going wrong.

I have a house in Saratoga Springs.

We never do evil so effectually as when we are led to do it by a false principle of conscience.

Beethoven in c minor has come to symbolize his artistic character...where he seems to be most impatient of any compromise.

I think when you're in a relationship, either you have something or your partner generally has something that you're having to deal with.

I'm not a lovable man.