'Witches just aren’t like that,’ said Magrat. ‘We live in harmony with the great cycles of Nature, and do no harm to anyone, and it’s wicked of them to say we don’t. We ought to fill their bones with hot lead.' (WS)
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'How can a man six inches high train a bird like that?’ she asked as the buzzard circled again for height.
‘Ach, all it takes is a wee drop o’kindness, mistress,’ said Not-as-big-as-Medium-Sized-Jock-but-bigger-than-Wee-Jock-Jock. ‘Really?’ ‘Aye, an’ a big dollop o’ cruelty.' (WFM) ... although an elderly man probably has a lot less future than a man of twenty, he’s far more careful of it ... (GP)
When all hope was gone, you called for Granny Weatherwax, because she was the best.
And she always came. Always. But popular? No. Need is not the same as like. (W) Headquarters had even started an Employee of the Month scheme to show how much they cared. That was how much they didn’t care. (GP)
All people really wanted, Dorcas considered, was to be left alone. The world was quite difficult enough as it was without people going around trying to make it better all the time. (Dig)
'I've worked out,’ said the Senior Wrangler, ‘that over the years I have been a net exporter of Hogswatch presents-’
‘Oh, everyone is,’ said the Chair. ‘You spend a fortune on other people and what you get when all the paper is cleared away is one slipper that’s the wrong colour and a book about earwax.' (H) YOU MUST LEARN THE COMPASSION PROPER TO YOUR TRADE.
‘What’s that?’ A SHARP EDGE. (M) Caring for small things had to start with caring for big things ... (MR)
'Them as can do, has to do for them as can’t. And someone has to speak up for them as has no voices.' (WFM)
IT WASN’T STEALING. IT WAS JUST ... REDISTRIBUTION. IT WILL BE A GOOD DEED IN A NAUGHTY WORLD.
‘No, it won’t!’ THEN IT WILL BE A NAUGHTY DEED IN A NAUGHTY WORLD AND WILL PASS COMPLETELY UNNOTICED. (H) IT IS BETTER TO GIVE THAN TO RECEIVE, ALBERT.
‘No, master, it’s just a lot more expensive.' (H) Goodwill to all men was a phrase coined by someone who hadn’t met Foul Ole Ron. (H)
'Charity ain’t giving people what you wants to give, it’s giving people what they need to get.' (H)
You couldn’t be a real copper in Ankh-Morpork and stay sane. You had to care. And caring in Ankh-Morpork was like opening a tin of meat in the middle of a piranha school. (MA)
'Our Sean read to me in the almanac where there’s all these fearsome wild beasts in foreign parts,’ he whispered. ‘Huge hairy things that leap out on travellers, it said. I’d hate to think what’d happen if they leapt out on mum and Granny.’
Magrat looked up into his big red face. ‘You will see no harm comes to them, won’t you?’ said Jason. ‘Don’t you worry,’ she said, hoping that he needn’t. ‘I’ll do my best.’ Jason nodded. ‘Only it said in the almanac that some of them were nearly extinct anyway,’ he said. (WA) Grammer Bevis wrinkled her forehead.
‘Magrat?’ she said. She tried to get a mental picture of the Ramtops’ youngest witch and recalled – well, not a face, just a slightly watery-eyed expression of hopeless goodwill wedged between a body like a maypole and hair like a haystack after a gale. A relentless doer of good works. A worrier. The kind of person who rescued small lost baby birds and cried when they died, which is the function kind old Mother Nature usually reserves for small lost baby birds. (WA) LORD, WHAT CAN THE HARVEST HOPE FOR, IF NOT FOR THE CARE OF THE REAPER MAN? (RM)
If he concentrated, he could just hear Pismire playing the fluteharp; it was easy to tell, even with all the other instruments in the Deftmenes' own band, by the way the notes went all over the place without ever hitting the tune. Pismire always said there were some things you should care about enough to do badly. (CP)
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