These were dangerous thoughts, he knew. They were the kind that crept up on a Watchman when the chase was over and it was just you and him, facing one another in that breathless little pinch between t...
There are all kinds of darkness, and all kinds of things can be found in them, imprisoned, banished, lost or hidden. Sometimes they escape. Sometimes they simply fall out. Sometimes they just can't ta...
The thing about football - the important thing about football - is that it is not just about football.
The people who really run organizations are usually found several levels down, where it is still possible to get things done.
The important thing about having lots of things to remember is that you’ve got to go somewhere afterwards where you can remember them, you see? You’ve got to stop. You haven’t really been anywhere unt...
The horsemen came closer.Vimes was not good at horsemen. Something in him resented being addressed by anyone eight feet above the ground. He didn't like the sensation of being looked at by nostrils.
The where the story happened was a world on the back of four elephants perched on the shell of a giant turtle. That's the advantage of space. It's big enough to hold practically , and so, eventually,...
Silverfish: He disappeared a few years ago.Disappeared? How? said Cuddy.We think, said Silverfish, leaning closer, that he found a way of making himself invisible.Really?Because, said Silverfish, nodd...
She never sent the castle to sleep, said Granny, that’s just an old wife’s tale. She just stirred up time a little. It’s not as hard as people think, everyone does it all the time. It’s like rubber, i...
Samuel Vimes dreamed about Clues. He had a jaundiced view of Clues. He instinctively distrusted them. They got in the way. And he distrusted the kind of person who’d take one look at another man and s...
Romancin’ is verra important, ye ken. Basically it’s a way the boy can get close to the girl wi’oot her attackin’ him and scratchin’ his eyes oot.
Pride is all very well, but a sausage is a sausage.
Overexcited? No! I'm getting very calmly worried that someone might shoot me!
One day I'll work out what it is you are saying, my lad, and then you'll be in trouble.
Oh, good grief, said Vimes. Look, it's quite simple, man. I was expected to go At last, alcohol!, and chugalug the lot without thinking. Then some respectable pillars of the community - he removed the...
Nothing-to-see is what most of the universe consists of.
No, what he didn't like about heroes was that they were usually suicidally gloomy when sober and homicidally insane when drunk.
Neither claimed any responsibility for Milton Keynes, but both reported it as a success.
Mister Lipwig, the world lives between those who say it cannot be done and those who say that it can. And in my experience, those who say that it can be done are usually telling the truth. It's just a...
Learnin’ how not to do things is as hard as learning how to do them.