"For as the world tumbles lazily, it is revealed as the Discworld-flat, circular, and carried through space on the back of four elephants who stand on the back of Great A'tuin, the only turtle ever to feature on the Hertzspring Russell Diagram, a turtle ten thousand miles long, dusted with the frost of dead comets, meteor-pocked, albedoeyed." Part 1, p. 3

"Broadly, therefore, the three even now lurching across the deserted planks of the Brass Bridge were dead drunk assassins and the men behind them were bent on inserting the significant comma." Part 1, p. 54

"The people believed this gave the high priest power over the gods and the dead, but this was probably a metaphor, i.e., a lie." Part 1, p. 63

"Part of him, which still lived in Ankh-Morpork, said: this is a dead body, wrapped up in bandages, surely they don't think that this will help him get better...