... is it really stealing if what’s stolen isn’t missed? And is it stealing if you’re stealing from thieves? (GP)
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She’d always tried to face towards the light. But the harder you stared into the brightness the harsher it burned into you until at last, the temptation picked you up and bid you turn around to see how long, rich, strong and dark, streaming away behind you your shadow had become - (CJ)
'I had to learn. All my life. The hard way. And the hard way’s pretty hard, but not so hard as the easy way.' (LL)
The price of a good woman was proverbially above rubies, so a skillfully bad one was presumably worth a lot more. (MM)
'Gytha, is there anything in the whole world you can’t make sound grubby?’
‘Not found it yet, Esme,’ said Nanny brightly. (Ma) There were twenty-three other novices in Brutha’s dormitory, on the principle that sleeping alone promoted sin. This always puzzled the novices themselves, since a moment’s reflection would suggest that there were whole ranges of sins only available in company. (SG)
'... they’re not so poor they can’t afford to do the right things!' (W)
Am I really a bastard or am I just really good at thinking like one? (MM)
... there were in fact enough skeletons in his closet to fill a big crypt, with enough left over to equip a funfair House of Horrors and maybe also make a macabre but mildly amusing ashtray. (MM)
'Sometimes you need to flooze regularly…' (Th)
Beating people up in little rooms…he knew where that led. And if you did it for a good reason, you’d do it for a bad one. You couldn’t say ‘We’re the good guys’ and do bad-guy things. (Th)
'Dancing around without her vest and practic’ly no drawers on. Is that any way to behave?’
Nobby considered this deep metaphysical question from various angles. ‘Er…yes?’ he ventured. (Th) 'It shouldn’t be like this.’
‘There isn’t a way things should be. There’s just what happens, and what we do.' (HFS) Being right doesn’t always work. (WFM)
'I've met a few incorruptible men,’ said Madam Meserole. ‘They tend to die horrible deaths. The world balances out,
you see. A corrupt man in a good world, or a good man in a corrupt one…the equation comes out the same. The world does not deal well with those who don’t pick a side.’ ‘I like the middle,’ said Vimes. ‘That gives you two enemies.' (NW) '…I am not so blind that I can’t see darkness.' (AM)
'But I’m not doing anything wrong,’ said William.
‘No, it may just be you’re not doing anything illegal,’ said Vimes. (TT) Granny was an old-fashioned witch. She didn’t do good for people, she did right by them. But Nanny knew that people don’t always appreciate right. (SLF)
'How do we usually test stuff?’
‘Generally we ask for student volunteers,’ said the Dean. ‘What happens if we don’t get any?’ ‘We give it to them anyway.’ ‘Isn’t that a bit unethical?’ ‘Not if we don’t tell them, Archchancellor.’ ‘Ah, good point.' (H) Like many people with no actual morals, Lord Downey did have standards. (H)
Her mind is so broad you could use it as a plank. (PP)
... Granny Weatherwax doing Good is arguably more to be feared than any other witch doing Bad ... (PP)
She gave a depreciating little chuckle. And if Nanny Ogg had been listening, she would have resolved as follows: that no maddened cackle from Black Aliss of infamous memory, no evil little giggle from some crazed vampyre whose morals were worse than his spelling, no side-splitting guffaw from the most inventive torturer, was quite so unnerving as a happy little chuckle from a Granny Weatherwax about to do what’s best. (Ma)
'Walter might not know his right from his left, but he does know his right from his wrong.' (Ma)
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