This man was so absent-mindedly clever that he could paint pictures that didn’t just follow you around the room but went home with you and did the washing-up.

...the little man's total obliviousness to all forms of danger somehow made danger so discouraged that it gave up and went away.

Do not act incautiously when confronting a little bald wrinkly smiling man!

What have I always believed? That on the whole, and by and large, if a man lived properly, not according to what any priests said, but according to what seemed decent and honest inside, then it would, at the end, more or less, turn out all right.

Death strode away, stopped, and came back. He pointed a skeletal finger at The Duck Man. WHY, he said, ARE YOU WALKING AROUND WITH THAT DUCK? "What duck?" AH. SORRY.

Tell someone you are going to rob them and all that will happen is that you'll get a reputation as a truthful man.

If you have to look along the shaft of an arrow from the wrong end, if a man has you entirely at his mercy, then hope like hell that man is an evil man. Because the evil like power... they will talk, they will gloat. So hope like hell your captor is an evil man. A good man will kill you with hardly a word.

When a man is tired of Ankh-Morpork, he is tired of ankle-deep slurry.

A good man will kill you with hardly a word.