'The universe is, instant by instant, recreated anew . . . The perfect moment is now. Be glad of it.'

Time is a resource....

'Anything you do in the past changes the future. The tiniest little actions have huge consequences. You might tread on an ant now...

"Look after the dead," said the priests, "and the dead would look after you."
Young Prince Teppic is sent far away from his...

'Don't put your trust in revolutions. They always come round again. That's why they're called revolutions. People die, and...

'They say that a little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but it is not one half so bad as a lot of ignorance.'
Everybody knows...

"'Carpe Jugulum,' read Agnes aloud. 'That's . . . well, Carpe Diem is Seize the Day, so this means -'
'Go for the throat . . .'"...

'The jurisdiction of a good man extends to the end of the world.'

Commander Sam Vimes of the Ankh-Morpork City Watch is having...

'For the enemy is not troll, nor is it dwarf, but it is the baleful, the malign, the cowardly, the vessels of hatred, those who...

War is brewing on the Discworld.

An island has appeared from the ocean depths, right in the middle of the sea which separates...

'People ought to think for themselves ... the problem is, people only think for themselves if you tell them to.'

Times are...

'Whoever said you can't fool an honest man wasn't one.'

The Royal Bank of Ankh-Morpork is facing a crisis and needs a shake-up...

'Always push your luck because no one else would push it for you.'
Imprisoned in Ankh-Morpork, con artist Moist von Lipwig is...

'This didn't feel like magic. It felt a lot older than that. It felt like music.'
Being sixteen is always difficult, but it's...

'Inside every living person is a dead person waiting to get out.'

Death has been fired by the Auditors of Reality for the...

'It wasn't by eliminating the impossible that you got at the truth, however improbable; it was by the much harder process of...

'A lie can run round the world before the truth can get its boots on.'
William de Worde has somehow found himself editor of...

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

The city of...

'Holy Wood is a different sort of place . . . Here, the most important thing is to be important.'

A new phenomenon is taking...

'The world lives between those who say it cannot be done and those who say that it can . . . it's just a matter of thinking...

'That's the trouble about the good guys and the bad guys! They're all guys!'

In the small yet aggressive country of...

'Well, he thought, so this is diplomacy. It's lying, only for a better class of people.'

Commander Sam Vimes of the...

'You cannot interfere with fate. Who are you to judge who should live and who should die?'

Death comes to us all. When he came...

'Humans need fantasy to be human. To be the place where the falling angel meets the rising ape.'

'Twas the night before...

'There's a kind of magic in masks. Masks conceal one face, but they reveal another. The one that only comes out in...

'Destiny is important, see, but people go wrong when they think it controls them. It's the other way around.'

Three witches...

'It's vital to remember who you really are . . . it isn't a good idea to rely on other people or things to do it for you, you...

'You can't go around building a better world for people. Only people can build a better world for people. Otherwise, it's just a...

'You should do things because they're right. Not because gods say so. They might say something different another time.'
Religion...

'People didn't seem to be able to remember what it was like with the elves around. Life was certainly more interesting then, but...

'There is a curse. They say: may you live in interesting times . . .'

This is the worst thing you can wish on a citizen of...