On the other hand the Nac Mac Feegle were always looking for a fight, in a cheerful sort of way, and when they had no one to fight they fought one another, and if one was all by himself he’d kick his...
Oh, my dear Vimes, history changes all the time. It is constantly being re-examined and re-evaluated, otherwise how would we be able to keep historians occupied? We can't possibly allow people with th...
Never cross a woman with a star on a stick, young lady. They've got a mean streak.
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!
Look, that's why there's rules, understand? So that you think before you break 'em.
Legitimate First watched them go as they walked away. Sergeant Colon felt he was being measured up.I've always wondered about his name, said Nobby, turning and waving. I mean...Legitimate?Can't blame...
Juliet's version of cleanliness was next to godliness, which was to say it was erratic, past all understanding and was seldom seen.
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...
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,...
It was said that [Vetinari] would tolerate absolutely anything apart from anything that threatened the city*... [Footnote] And mime artists. It was a strange aversion, but there you are. Anyone in bag...
It was funny how people were people everywhere you went, even if the people concerned weren't the people the people who made up the phrase people are people everywhere had traditionally thought of as...
It was amazing how many friends you could make by being bad at things, provided you were bad enough to be funny.
It was all very well going on about pure logic and how the universe was ruled by logic and the harmony of numbers, but the plain fact of the matter was that the Disc was manifestly traversing space on...
It was a large room, heavily outfitted with the usual badly ventilated furnaces, rows of bubbling crucibles, and one stuffed alligator. Things floated in jars. The air smelled of a limited life expect...
It is said that your life flashes before your eyes just before you die. That is true, it's called Life.
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...
I recall no arrangement, Mau, no bargain, covenant, agreement or promise. There is what happens, and what does not happen. There is no 'should
I believe the term is ‘eminent domain.’Ah, yes. That means ‘theft by the government,
Humans! They lived in a world where the grass continued to be green and the sun rose every day and flowers regularly turned into fruit, and what impressed them? Weeping statues. And wine made out of w...
History isn't like that. History unravels gently, like an old sweater. It has been patched and darned many times, reknitted to suit different people, shoved in a box under the sink of censorship to be...