"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."

"The truth is a fog, in which one man sees the heavenly host and the other one sees a flying elephant."