“Tell someone you are going to rob them and all that will happen is that you'll get a reputation as a truthful man.”

“Ordinary fortune-tellers tell you what you want to happen; witches tell you what’s going to happen whether you want it to or not. Strangely enough, witches tend to be more accurate but less popular.”

“If you were going to be successful in the world of crime, you needed a reputation for honesty.”

“You're not going to tell me they built fifty-foot-high killer golems, are you?""Only a man would think of that.It's our job," said Moist. "If you don't think of fifty-foot-high killer golems first, someone else will.”

“The office of Master of Traditions had fallen inevitably on Ponder Stibbons, who tended to get all the jobs that required someone who thought that things should happen on time and that numbers should add up.”

“They sometimes forgot what happened if you let a pawn get all the way up the board.”

“To tell you the truth, I'm something of an atheist.”