Look, that's why there's rules, understand? So that you think before you break 'em.
She is standing just behind you. Just behind your right shoulder.In the silence of the woods, Polly turned.I can't see her, she said.I am happy for you, said Wazzer, handing her the empty mug.But I di...
It's beautiful, said Mort softly. What is it?THE SUN IS UNDER THE DISC, said Death.Is it like this every night?EVERY NIGHT, said Death. NATURE'S LIKE THAT.Doesn't anyone know?ME. YOU. THE GODS. GOOD,...
We need to borrow your boat, said Vimes.Bugger off!I'm choosing to believe that was a salty nautical expression meaning 'Why, certainly,' said Vimes.
In a well-organized world he might have landed on a fire escape, but the fire escapes were unknown in Ankh-Morpork and the flames generally had to leave via the roof.
Mr Lipwig, there's a lady in the hall to see you and we've thanked her for not smoking three times and she's still doing it!
Vimes woke in damp and utter darkness with sand under his cheek. Some parts of his body reported for duty, others protested that they had a note from their mother.
In an instant he became aware that the tourist was about to try his own peculiar brand of linguistics, which meant that he would speak loudly and slowly in his own language.
Vimes had once discussed the Ephebian idea of ‘democracy’ with Carrot, and had been rather interested in the idea that everyone had a vote until he found out that while he, Vimes, would have a vote, t...
I would like you to teach [the orcs] civilised behaviour, said Ladyship coldly.He appeared to consider this. Yes of course, I think that would be quite possible, he said. And who would you send to tea...
Supposing an emperor was persuaded to wear a new suit of clothes whose material was so fine that, to the common eye, the clothes weren't there. And suppose a little boy pointed out this fact in a loud...
Well, he thought, so this is diplomacy. It's lying, only for a better class of people.
Well, child? Aren't you going to try to turn me into some kind of unspeakable creature?I don't think I shall bother, madam, seeing as you are making such a good job of it yourself!
The Nac Mac Feegle (also called Pictsies, The Wee Free Men, The Little Men, and Person or Persons Unknown, Believed to be Armed)
It didn't look like the kind of snow that whispers down gently in the pit of the night and in the morning turns the landscape into a glittering wonderland of uncommon and ethereal beauty. It looked li...
She’d read the dictionary all the way through. No one told her you weren’t supposed to.
They were indeed what was known as 'old money', which meant that it had been made so long ago that the black deeds which had originally filled the coffers were now historically irrelevant. Funny, that...
Speak softly and employ a huge man with a crowbar.
Jeremy tried to be an interesting person. The trouble was that he was the kind of person who, having decided to be an interesting person, would first of all try to find a book called How to Be An Inte...
I recall no arrangement, Mau, no bargain, covenant, agreement or promise. There is what happens, and what does not happen. There is no 'should
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