And when the Patrician was unhappy, he became very democratic. He found intricate and painful ways of spreading that unhappiness as far as possible.
And then there were cats, thought Dog. He'd surprised the huge ginger cat from next door and had attempted to reduce it to cowering jelly by means of the usual glowing stare and deep-throated growl, w...
A dwarf who can't get the hang of metal? That must be pretty unique.Pretty rare, sir. But I was quite good at alchemy..Guild member?Not any more, sir.Oh? How did you leave the guild?Through the roof,...
Logic is only a way of being ignorant by numbers.
Seven hundred thousand people who have dementia in this country are not heard. I'm fortunate; I can be heard. Regrettably, it's amazing how people listen if you stand up in public and give away $1 mil...
Colon has always thought that heroes had some special kind of clockwork that made them go out and die famously for god, country and apple pie, or whatever particular delicacy their mother made. It had...
Ye know full well that the meaning of life is to find your gift. To find your gift is happiness. Never tae find it is misery.
For her next birthday she'd asked for a telescope. Her mother had been alive then, and had suggested a pony, but her father had laughed and bought her a beautiful telescope, saying: "Of course she sho...
You get a wonderful view from the point of no return.
You couldn't say: It's not my fault. You couldn't say: It's not my responsibility.You could say: I will deal with this.You didn't have to want to. But you had to do it.
Winder's mind felt even fuzzier than it had done over the past few years, but he was certain about cake. He'd been eating cake, and now there wasn't any. Through the mists he saw it, apparently close...
Vimes felt a sudden surge of civic pride. There had to be something right about a citizenry which, when faced with catastrophe, thought about selling sausages to the participants.
Under the table, Greebo sat and washed himself. Occasionally he burped.Vampires have risen from the dead, the grave and the crypt, but never managed it from the cat.
This is very similar to the suggestion put forward by the Quirmian philosopher Ventre, who said, Possibly the gods exist, and possibly they do not. So why not believe in them in any case? If it's all...
They'd smash up the world if they thought it would make a pretty noise.
They always gives me bath salts, complained Nobby. And bath soap and bubble bath and herbal bath lumps and tons of bath stuff and I can't think why, 'cos it's not as if I hardly ever has a bath. You'd...
There were a lot of things he could say. Son of a bitch! would have been a good one. Or he could say, Welcome to civilization! He could have said, Laugh this one off! He might have said, Fetch! But he...
There was no light at the end of the tunnel--or if there was, it was an oncoming train.
There are those who believe knowledge is something that is acquired - a precious ore hacked, as it were, from the grey strata of ignorance.There are those who believe that knowledge can only be recall...
The whole of life is just like watching a film. Only it's as though you always get in ten minutes after the big picture has started, and no-one will tell you the plot, so you have to work it out all y...