“Other people salted away money for their old age, but Nanny preferred to accumulate memories.”

“Nanny Ogg never did any housework herself, but she was the cause of housework in other people.”

“Oh, we're always all right. You remember that. We happen to other people.-Nanny Ogg”

“The Yen Buddhists are the richest religious sect in the universe. They hold that the accumulation of money is a great evil and a burden to the soul. They therefore, regardless of personal hazard, see it as their unpleasant duty to acquire as much as possible in order to reduce the risk to innocent people.”

“Bugger off sweetheart Nanny's busy”

“Many people could say things in a cutting way, Nanny knew. But Granny Weatherwax could listen in a cutting way. She could make something sound stupid just by hearing it.”

“And so the children of the revolution were faced with the age-old problem: it wasn't that you had the wrong kind of government, which was obvious, but that you had the wrong kind of people. As soon as you saw people as things to be measured, they didn't measure up.”