It's supposed to be jolly, with mistletoe and holly... and other things ending in olly.

The Auditors fluttered anxiously. And, as always happens in their species when something goes radically wrong and needs fixing instantly, they settled down to try to work how who was to blame.

There is always time for another last minute

OH, THERE HAS TO BE SOMETHING IN THE STOCKING THAT MAKES A NOISE, said Death. OTHERWISE, WHAT IS 4:30 A.M. FOR?

IT'S THE EXPRESSION ON THEIR LITTLE FACES I LIKE, said the Hogfather. "You mean sort of fear and awe and not knowing whether to laugh or cry or wet their pants?" YES. NOW THAT IS WHAT I CALL BELIEF.

Hello, inner child, I'm the inner babysitter!

HUMAN BEINGS MAKE LIFE SO INTERESTING. DO YOU KNOW, THAT IN A UNIVERSE SO FULL OF WONDERS, THEY HAVE MANAGED TO INVENT BOREDOM. (Death)

Some things are fairly obvious when it's a seven-foot skeleton with a scythe telling you them

Dullness. Only humans could have invented it. What imaginations they had.

YOU HAVE TO START OUT LEARNING TO BELIEVE THE LITTLE LIES."So we can believe the big ones?"YES. JUSTICE. MERCY. DUTY. THAT SORT OF THING.

Our common humanity can bridge any prior expanse of disagreement between us.

My loathings are simple. stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music.

With the ambitions, to seize the opportunity to win is your big loss.

Brooklyn was like Philadelphia made better by its proximity to Manhattan.

Each friend represents a world in us, a world not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.

We are not merely passive pawns of historical forces; nor are we victims of the past. We can shape and direct history.

I think you know what? You've got to believe in yourself. You can do it.

People think they know me from somewhere, and then I open my mouth and they realise it's me from Birds Of A Feather.

You don't always have to run. Take good time to watch first, then decide.

The skilful disputant well knows that he never has his enemy at more advantage than when, by allowing the premises, he shows him arguing wrong from his own principles.