- Granny Weatherwax: Things that try to look like things often do look more like things than things. Well known fact. But I don't hold with encouraging in it!
- Granny Weatherwax: I don't hold with looking at the future... But now I think the future's looking at me. And I don't like its expression.
- [first lines]
- Magrat: [screeches and laughs aloud] When shall we three meet again?
- Granny Weatherwax: Well, I can do next Tuesday.
- Granny Weatherwax: People is gonna come looking. Serious people. Serious-looking. Pull-down-the-walls-and-burn-of-the-thatch looking.
- castle's cook: What's a zen?
- The Fool: Oh, a sub-sect of the Turnwise Klatch philosophical system of Sumthin'. An interesting aspect is the asking of apparently nonsensical questions in order to widen the doors of percep...
- playwright: [instructing his actors who are made up to play the Wyrd Sisters] What are you? You're scheming evil secret black and midnight hags. Tell me what you are!