“Raise the stakes! Always push your luck because no one else would push it for you.”

“ If you ask 10 nomes to push four will pull and two will say pardon”

“Nanny Ogg looked under her bed in case there was a man there. Well, you never knew your luck.”

“So much paperwork to read! So much paperwork to push away! So much paperwork to pretend he hadn't received and that might have been eaten by gargoyles.”

“They were also slightly less intelligent than he was. This is a quality you should always pray for in your would-be murderer.”

“The Departure Aria, a very important and romantic song - This damn door sticks,This damn door sticksIt sticks no matter what I do.It is marked 'pull' and indeed I am pullingPerhaps it should be marked 'push'?”

“You say that you people don’t burn folk and sacrifice people anymore, but that’s what true faith would mean, y’see? Sacrificin’ your own life, one day at a time, to the flame, declarin’ the truth of it, workin’ for it, breathin’ the soul of it. That’s religion. Anything else is just . . . is just bein’ nice. And a way of keepin’ in touch with the neighbors.”