Discworld 36 - Making Money

Death had not diminished his encyclopedic memory, his guile, his talent for corkscrew reasoning, and the vitriol of his stare. Do not cross me this day, it advised the lawyers. Do not cross me, for if you do I will have the flesh from your very bones and the marrow therein. You know those leather-bound tomes you have on the wall behind your desk to impress your clients? I have read them all, and I wrote half of them. Do not try me. I am not in a good mood

What is the worth of a gold coin compared to the dexterity of the hand that holds it?

If you fall, let them remember how you turned it into a dive. Sometimes the finest hour is the last one

The price of a good woman was proverbially above rubies, so a skillfully bad one was worth presumably a lot more

Who can say who is truly normal in this world?

The past is a dangerous country, is it not?

Plans can break down. You cannot plan the future. Only presumptuous fools plan. The wise man steers

Mr. Bent believed that mistakes were the result of a deformity of the soul

When you have been a possession, then you really understand what freedom means, in all its magnificent terror

The ground state of being was silliness, which had to be overcome with every mortal fiber