Vimes took the view that life was so full of things happening erraticaly in all directions, that the chance of any of them making some kind of relevant sense were remote in the extreme.
Verence would rather cut his own leg off than put a witch in prison, since it'd save trouble in the long run and probably be less painful.
Uncertainty is always uncertain, but the difficulty with people who rely on systems is that they begin to believe that nearly everything is in some way a system and therefore, sooner or later, they be...
To be frank, I thought you were going to marry the princess.'Mort blushed. 'We talked about it,' he said. 'Then we thought, just because you happen to rescue a princess, you shouldn't rush into things...
This is Morbidia, said Vlad. Although she's been calling herself Tracy lately, to be cool.
There’s no greys, only white that’s got grubby. I’m surprised you don’t know that. And sin, young man, is when you treat people as things. Including yourself. That’s what sin is.’‘It’s a lot more comp...
There will be justice, said Brutha. If there is no justice, there is nothing.
There were two ways of looking at the world, but only one when you are starving.
There was never anything to be gained from observing what humans said to one another--language was just there to hide their thoughts.
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 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 trouble with witches is that they’ll never run away from things they really hate.And the trouble with small furry animals in a corner is that, just occasionally, one of them’s a mongoose.
The nice thing about artificial intelligence is that at least it's better than artificial stupidity.
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 jurisdiction of a good man extends to the end of the world.
The human mind was a deep and abiding mystery and the Librarian was glad he didn't have one anymore.
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...
The games we play are lessons we learn. The assumptions we make, things we ignore, and things we change make us what we become.