There was no universe, anywhere, where a Sam Vimes would give in on this, because if he did then he wouldn't be Sam Vimes anymore.
There was always something that you had to do before you could do the thing you wanted to do and even then you might get it wrong.
There are very few starts. Oh, some things seem to be beginnings. The curtain goes up, the first pawn moves, the first shot is fired - but that's not the start. The play, the game, the war is just a l...
The young man is also an idealist. He has yet to find out that what’s in the public interest is not what the public is interested in.
The wizards held that, as servants of a higher truth, they were not subject to the mundane laws of the city. The Patrician said that, indeed, this was the case, but they would bloody well pay their ta...
The way to deal with an impossible task was to chop it down into a number of merely very difficult tasks, and break each one of them into a group of horribly hard tasks, and each of them into tricky j...
The wages of sin is death but so is the salary of virtue, and at least the evil get to go home early on Fridays.
The truth isn't easily pinned to a page. In the bathtub of history the truth is harder to hold than the soap and much more difficult to find.
The trouble with gods is that after enough people start believing in them, they begin to exist. And what begins to exist isn't what was originally intended.
The trouble is, you see, that if you do know Right from Wrong, you can't choose Wrong. You just can't do it and live.
The thing is, I mean, there’s times when you look at the universe and you think, What about me? and you can just hear the universe replying, Well, what about you?
The new captain looked up. Oh, good grief, Vimes thought. It's bloody Rust this time round!And it was indeed the Hon. Ronald Rust, the god's gift to the enemy, any enemy, and a walking encouragement t...
The most important thing was that time had passed, pouring thousands of soothing seconds across the island. People need time to deal with the now before it runs away and becomes the then.
The light was misty and actinic, the sort of light to make Steven Spielberg reach for his copyright lawyer.
The librarians were mysterious. It was said they could tell what book you needed just by looking at you, and they could take your voice away with a word.
The key to winning, as always, was looking as if you had every right, nay, duty to be where you were. It helped if you could also suggest in every line of your body that no one else had any rights to...
The jurisdiction of a good man extends to the end of the world.
The important thing about being a leader is not being right or wrong but being certain. Of course it helps to be right as well, the Abbot conceeded.
The grags came down heavily on those who did not conform and seemed not to realize that this was like stamping potatoes into the mud to stop them growing.
The gods of the Disc have never bothered much about judging the souls of the dead, and so people only go to hell if that's where they believe, in their deepest heart, that they deserve to go. Which th...