Quotes About Mystery

Hat = wizard, wizard = hat. Everything else is frippery.

As far as Death was aware, the sole reason for any human association with pigs and lambs was as a prelude to chops and sausages. Quite why they should dress up for children's wallpaper as well was a mystery. Hello, little folk, this is what you're going to eat… He felt that if only he could find the key to it, he'd know a lot more about human beings.

The Luggage said nothing, but louder this time.

But this didn't feel like magic. It felt a lot older than that. It felt like music.

You can't second-guess ineffability, I always say.

Once upon a time the plural of 'wizard' was 'war'.

You needed at least three witches for a coven. Two witches was just an argument.

Once you've ruled out the impossible then whatever is left, however improbable, must be the truth. The problem lay in working out what was impossible, of course. That was the trick, all right. There was also the curious incident of the orangutan in the night-time.

That's what I don't like about magic. It does everything by magic.

There are things so horrible that even the dark is afraid of them. Most people don't know this and this is just as well because the world could not really operate if everyone stayed in bed with the blankets over their head, which is what would happen if people knew what horrors lay a shadow's width away.

And it came to pass that in that time the Great God Om spake unto Brutha, the Chosen One: 'Psst!'

I have to ask, sir...Why does it have to be done like this? Vetinari smiled. Can you keep a secret, Mister Lipwig? Oh, yes, sir. I've kept lots. Capital. And the point is, so can I. You do not need to know.

We may even find out why the duck-billed platypus.* *Not why is it anything . Just why it is.

He was currently wondering vaguely who Moey and Chandon were.

The dwarfs can turn lead into gold... It reached the pointy ears of the dwarfs. -Can we? -Damned if I know. I can't. -Yeah, but if you could, you wouldn't say. I wouldn't say, if I could. -Can you? -No! -Ah-ha!

And that's what I don't like about magic, Captain. 'cos it's *magic*. You can't ask questions, it's magic. It doesn't explain anything, it's magic. You don't know where it comes from, it's magic! That's what I don't like about magic, it does everything by magic!

Religion is not an exact science. Sometimes, of course, neither is science.

There's a kind of magic in masks. Masks conceal one face, but they reveal another. The one that only comes out in darkness. I bet you could do just what you liked, behind a mask ... ?

They say that the eyes of some paintings can follow you around the room, a fact that I doubt, but I am wondering whether some music can follow you for ever.

The calendar of the Theocracy of Muntab counts down, not up. No-one knows why, but it might not be a good idea to hang around and find out.

Ye ken, we've been robbin' and running aroound on all kinds o' worlds for a lang time, and I'll tell ye this: The universe is a lot more comp-li-cated than it looks from the ooutside.

Funny, reely, he said. You spend your whole life goin' to school and learnin' stuff, and they never tell you about stuff like the Bermuda Triangle and UFOs and all these Old Masters running around the inside of the Earth. Why do we have to learn boring stuff when there's all this brilliant stuff we could be learnin', that's what I want to know.

Witches have animals they can talk to, called familiars. Like your toad there. I'm not familiar, said a voice from among the paper flowers. I'm just slightly presumptuous.

He was said to have the body of a twenty-five year old, although no-one knew where he kept it. The point was that everyone else had someone, even if in Nobby's case it was probably against their will.