The thing about elves is they've got no... begins with m," Granny snapped her fingers irritably."Manners?""Hah! Right, but no""Muscle? Mucus? Mystery?""No. No. No. Means like... seein' the other person's point of view."Verence tried to see the world from a Granny Weatherwax perspective and suspicion dawned. "Empathy?""Right. None at all.

At last the magic caught, and she managed to vault clumsily onto it before it trundled into the night sky as gracefully as a duck with one wing missing.

Er, excuse me,' said the man as Nanny Ogg turned away, 'but what is that on your shoulders?''It's. . . a fur collar,' said Nanny.'Excuse me, but I just saw it flick its tail.''Yes. I happen to believe in beauty without cruelty.

That's Third Thoughts for you. When a huge rock is going to land on your head, they're the thoughts that think: Is that an igneous rock, such as granite, or is it sandstone?

Жизненно важный ингредиент успеха - это не знать, что задуманное вами невозможно выполнить.

Even the pious Scots, locked throughout history in a long-drawn-out battle with their arch-enemies the Scots, managed a few burnings to while away the long winter evenings.

The English, by and large, being a crass and indolent race, were not as keen on burning women as other countries in Europe.

We ain’t going to curse anyone,” said Granny firmly. “It hardly ever works if they don’t know you’ve done it.

We got the spell exactly right. Except for the ingredients. And most of the poetry. And it probably wasn’t the right time. And Gytha took most of it home for the cat, which couldn’t of been proper.