Quotes from book

Equal Rites

“He had the kind of real deep tan that rich people spent ages trying to achieve with expensive holidays and bits of tinfoil, when really all you need to do to obtain one is work your arse off in the open air everyday.”

“I'm not a lady, I'm a witch.”

“Everyone knew there were wolves in the mountains, but they seldom came near the village - the modern wolves were the offspring of ancestors that had survived because they had learned that human meat had sharp edges.”

“There would be a price… But if you were worried about the price, then why were you in the shop?”

“It is well known that a vital ingredient of success is not knowing that what you're attempting can't be done. A person ignorant of the possibility of failure can be a half-brick in the path of the bicycle of history.”

“They say a little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but it's not one half so bad as a lot of ignorance.”

“Do you know how wizards like to be buried?"
"Yes!"
"Well, how?"
Granny Weatherwax paused at the bottom of the stairs.
"Reluctantly.”

“That's one form of magic, of course."
"What, just knowing things?"
"Knowing things that other people don't know.”

“Granny sighed. "You have learned something," she said, and thought it safe to insert a touch of sternness into her voice. "They say a little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but it is not one half so bad as a lot of ignorance.”

“Million-to-one chances… crop up nine times out of ten.”

“… it is well known that a vital ingredient of success is not knowing that what you're attempting can't be done.”

“She was also, by the standards of other people, lost. She would not see it like that. She knew where she was, it was just that everywhere else didn't.”

“The entire universe has been neatly divided into things to (a) mate with, (b) eat, (c) run away from, and (d) rocks.”

“She was already learning that if you ignore the rules people will, half the time, quietly rewrite them so that they don't apply to you.”