• “Nothing special about humble origins” Page: 47
• He was vaguely aware that he drank to forget. What made it rather pointless was that he couldn’t remember what it was he was forgetting anymore. In the end he just drank to forget about drinking. Page: 50
Once, in the days when this had been a respectable district, some hopeful owner of the tavern next door had paid a wizard a considerable sum of money for an illuminated sign, every letter a different color. Now it worked erratically and sometimes short-circuited in the damp. At the moment the E was a garish pink and flashed on and off at random. Yellow highlight | Page: 85 brachiating Yellow highlight | Page: 112 It was amazing, this mystic business. You tell them a lie, and then when you don’t need it anymore you tell them another lie and tell them they’re progressing along the road to wisdom. Then instead of laughing they follow you even more, hoping that at the heart of all the lies they’ll find the truth. And bit by bit they accept the unacceptable. Amazing. Yellow highlight | Page: 121 comestibles Yellow highlight | Page: 121 “With respect, Lord Vetinari,” said the Archchancellor, “it has often been claimed that dragons are extinct, but the current evidence, if I may make so bold, tends to cast a certain doubt on the theory. As to habitat, what we are seeing here is simply a change of behavior pattern, occasioned by the spread of urban areas into the countryside which has led many hitherto rural creatures to adopt, nay in many cases to positively embrace, a more municipal mode of existence, and many of them thrive on the new opportunities thereby opened to them. Yellow highlight | Page: 124 Once you’ve ruled out the impossible then whatever is left, however improbable, must be the truth. The problem lay in working out what was impossible, of course. That was the trick, all right. Yellow highlight | Page: 132 It was generally thought that the existence of cures encouraged slackness and was in any case probably against Nature’s way. Yellow highlight | Page: 142 The reason that cliches become cliches is that they are the hammers and screwdrivers in the toolbox of communication. Yellow highlight | Page: 166 Say what you liked about the people of Ankh-Morpork they had always been staunchly independent, yielding to no man their right to rob, defraud, embezzle and murder on an equal basis. Yellow highlight | Page: 192 “You’re just annoyed because your missus has been embroidering crowns on her undies,” said Nobby. “That’s got nothing to do with it,” said Sergeant Colon indignantly. “I’ve always been very firm on the rights of man.” “And dwarf,” said Carrot. “Yeah, right,” said the sergeant uncertainly. “But all this business about kings and lords, it’s against basic human dignity. We’re all born equal. It makes me sick.” “Never heard you talk like this before, Frederick,” said Nobby. “It’s Sergeant Colon to you, Nobby.” “Sorry, Sergeant.” Yellow highlight | Page: 217 The pecking order had moved it, though, so that now he was in the lowest tier on the rickety bleachers between the Master of the Fellowship of Beggars and the head of the Teachers’ Guild. He didn’t mind that. Anything was better than the top row, among the Assassins, Thieves, Merchants and all the other things that had floated to the top of society. Yellow highlight | Page: 234 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. Yellow highlight | Page: 256 “It’s just what I’ve always said,” he said. “The people united can never be ignited!” Yellow highlight | Page: 277 Never trust any ruler who puts his faith in tunnels and bunkers and escape routes. The chances are that his heart isn’t in the job.”