Captain Vimes believed in logic, in much the same way as a man in a desert believed in ice -- i.e., it was something he really needed, but this just wasn't the world for it.

She knew all the indices to the idle lonely, never bought a small tube of toothpaste, never dropped a magazine in her shopping card.

She knew better than to challenge a man who spent his life preparing for the apocalypse.

Do it now and avoid the June rush! Fear death by water!

Public opinion is an extremely mutable thing

[The public has] the habit now of invalidating opinions emanating from me by reference to my age and infirmities.

God is on the move to rescue people from misery to everlasting happiness, which can only be found in him.

The trouble with some of us is that we have been inoculated with small doses of Christianity which keep us from catching the real thing.

All that I've learned has faded away.

Globalisation, which benefits only multi-national companies and takes away all sense of local or national pride and identity, is the biggest threat facing all the member states of the EU.

Nothing but stillness can remain when hearts are full Of their own sweetness, bodies of their loveliness.