She was a good witch. That was her role in life. That was the burden she had to bear. Good and Evil were quite superfluous when you’d grown up with a highly developed sense of Right and Wrong. (Ma)
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Nanny Ogg found herself embarrassed even to think about this, and this was unusual because embarrassment normally came as naturally to Nanny as altruism comes to a cat. (Ma)
... Nanny Ogg was an attractive lady, which is not the same as being beautiful. She fascinated Casanunda. She was an incredibly comfortable person to be around, partly because she had a mind so broad it could accommodate three football fields and a bowling alley. (LL)
'You haven’t got the morals of a cat, Gytha Ogg.’
‘Now, Esme, you know that’s not true.’ ‘All right. You have got the morals of a cat, then.’ ‘That’s better.' (LL) Granny looked at the rising sun poking through the mists.
'Good and bad is tricky,’ she said. ‘I ain’t too certain about where people stand. P’rhaps what matters is which way you face.' (WA) 'You can’t make things right by magic. You can only stop making them wrong.' (WA)
'You’d have to go a long day’s journey to find someone basically nastier than Esme,’ said Nanny Ogg, ‘and this is me sayin’ it. She knows exactly what she is. She was born to be good and she don’t like it.' (WA)
I’VE NEVER BEEN VERY SURE ABOUT WHAT IS RIGHT, said Bill Door. I AM NOT SURE THERE IS SUCH A THING AS RIGHT. OR WRONG. JUST PLACES TO STAND. (RM)
He appeared to have no vice that anyone could discover. You’d have thought, with that pale, equine face, that he’d incline towards stuff with whips, needles, and young women in dungeons. The other lords could have accepted that. Nothing wrong with whips and needles, in moderation. But the Patrician apparently spent his evenings studying reports and, on special occasions, if he could stand the excitement, playing chess. (GG)
He had the look of someone who could think his way through a corkscrew without bending ... (S)
You had to deal with every day people who were foolish and lazy and untruthful and downright unpleasant, and you could certainly end up thinking the world would be considerably improved if you gave them a slap. But you didn’t
because, as Miss Tick had once explained: a) it would only make the world a better for a very short time; b) it would then make the world a slightly worse place; and c) you’re not supposed to be as stupid as they are. (W) As soon as you saw people as things to be measured, they didn’t measure up. (NW)
... he hadn’t got this job because he was a fine upstanding citizen. Some tasks needed a good honest hammer. Others needed a twisty corkscrew. (GP)
They were, by their own standards honest men, in that they only did what they knew or suspected that everyone else did. (GP)
'It's a far, far better thing I do now than I have ever done before,’ said Nobby.
‘Right,’ said Sergeant Colon. They walked on in silence for a while and he added: ‘O’ course, that’s not difficult.' (J) 'Whatever happened to integrity round here?’
‘I think you probably sold it to someone, Uncle.' (MP) 'If I’d had to buy you, you wouldn’t be worth the price.' (WS)
There was, there always was, at the start and finish…the Code. They lived by the Code. You followed the Code, and you became part of the Code for those who followed you. The Code was it. Without the Code you weren’t a hero. You were just a thug in a loincloth. (LH)
It was said later that he came under bad influences at this stage. But the secret of the history of Edward d’Eath was that he came under no outside influences at all, unless you count all those dead kings. He just came under the influence of himself. (MA)
'We look to…the edges,’ said Mistress Weatherwax. ‘There’s a lot of edges, more than people know. Between life and death, this world and the next, night and day, right and wrong…an’ they need watchin’. We watch ‘em, we guard the sum of things. And we never ask for any reward. That’s important.' (WFM)
An edge witch is one who makes her living on the edges, in that moment when the boundary conditions apply – between life and death, light and dark, good and evil and, most dangerously of all, today and tomorrow. (TOT)
CHOOSE, he said. YOU ARE GOOD AT CHOOSING, I BELIEVE.
‘Is there any advice you could be givin’ me?’ said Granny. CHOOSE RIGHT. (CJ) ... one of the things a witch did was stand right on the edge, where the decisions had to be made. You made them so that others didn’t have to, so that others could even pretend to themselves that there were no decisions to be made, no little secrets, that things just happened. (CJ)
'Animals can’t murder. Only us superior races can murder. That’s one of the things that sets us apart from animals.' (LL)
What good was a cat with a conscience? A cat with a conscience was a…a hamster. (AM)
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