He could stop the coaches all right, but people tended to say, 'What? I say, it's a lowwayman. What's up? A bit short are you? Hur, hur, hur,' and he would be forced to shoot them in the knee.
Casununda finds it's not that easy for a dwarf to be a highwayman.

"But now I understand what your jokes were about."
"What, all of them?" said Nanny, like someone who'd found all the aces removed from their favourite pack of cards.
Marriage seems to agree with Magrat.

One or two of the old barrows had been exposed over the years, their huge stones attracting their own folklore. If you left your unshod horse at one of them overnight and placed sixpence on the stone, in the morning the sixpence would be gone, and you'd never see your horse again, either...
Country folk have their simple beliefs ...

Nanny grabbed her cat off the throne. "A cat can look at a king," she said.
"Not with that expression, I believe," said Verence.
Nanny Ogg appears to be the only member of the Greebo fan-club.

"If I've got a fault," she said, contriving to suggest that this was only a theoretical possibility, "it's not knowing when to turn and run. And I tends to bluff on a weak hand."
You're not likely to get a better explanation out of Granny Weatherwax.

Agnes thought that a dumpy girl should not wear a tall hat, especially with black. It made her look as though someone had dropped a liquorice-flavoured ice-cream cone.

Vampires are not naturally co-operative creatures. It's not in their nature. Every other vampire is a rival for the next meal. In fact, the ideal situation for a vampire is a world in which every other vampire has been killed off, and no-one seriously believes in vampires any more.

Verence was technically an absolute ruler and would continue to be so provided he didn't make the mistake of repeatedly asking Lancrastians to do anything they didn't want to do.

"Oh, I don't know, I really don't," said Nanny. "I mean, it's flattering and everything, but I really don't think I could be goin' out with a man with a limp."
"Limp what?"
Magrat zaps Nanny with one out of left-field...

"Vampires are very anal-retentive, you see?"
"I shouldn't like meeting one that was the opposite," said Nanny.

"Mistress Weatherwax, you are a natural disputant."
"No, I ain't!"

"Remember -- that which does not kill us can only make us stronger."
"And that which does kill us leaves us dead!"
She's got a point there.

The pointy hat carried a lot of weight in the Ramtops. People talked to the hat, not to the person wearing it. When people were in serious trouble they went to a witch.
[ footnote: Sometimes, of course, to say 'Please stop doing it.' ]

"A lot of people don't like me as soon as they've met me," said Oats.
"I suppose that saves time," said Agnes....
Things that could have been put better.

"He built our family home. Don'tgonearthe Castle, we call it."
....because of the signs all round it (the old Count was a sportsman).