You know how to pray, don’t you? Just put your hands together and hope.

Everywhere's been where it is ever since it was first put there. It's called geography.

Sometimes the truth is arrived at by adding all the little lies together and deducting them from the totality of what is known.

It would seem that you have no useful skill or talent whatsoever," he said. "Have you thought of going into teaching?

If I were you, I'd sue my face for slander.

Ankh-Morpork had dallied with many forms of government and had ended up with that form of democracy known as One Man, One Vote. The Patrician was the Man; he had the Vote.