What a mess the world was in, Vimes reflected. Constable Visit had told him the meek would inherit it, and what had the poor devils done to deserve that?

If you were going to be successful in the world of crime, you needed a reputation for honesty.

Whoever had created humanity had left in a major design flaw.It was its tendency to bend at the knees.

WORDS IN THE HEART CANNOT BE TAKEN.

Look at it like this, it's not that we're making life, we're simply giving life a place to live.

It is a mystery, ' said Detritus.Vimes grinned mirthlessly. It was a mystery. And he didn't like mysteries. Mysteries had a way of getting bigger if you didn't solve them quickly. Mysteries pupped.

Is It Frightening To Be Free?""You said it.""You Say To People 'Throw Off Your Chains' And They Make New Chains For Themselves?""Seems to be a major human activity, yes.

People said that there was one law for the rich and one law for the poor, but it wasn't true. There was no law for those who made the law, and no law for the incorrigibly lawless.

Down, boy! Couchant! I said couchant! No! Not rampant!

You Say To People 'Throw Off Your Chains' And They Make New Chains For Themselves?

He wanted one drink, and understood precisely why he wasn't going to have one. One drink ended up arriving in a dozen glasses.

Seemingly opposing forces can amalgamate.

I grew up before computers. Computers are changing things, not all for the good.

How wonderful it is that we can start doing good at this very moment.

You can flush my ashes down the toilet, for all I care.

I was thinking that people have to believe you're crazy in order to take you seriously as an artist.

I've learned to deal with stress. In fact, things that would make the next person go over a cliff don't even make my radar anymore.

In this metropolis a number of lurking leeches infamously gain subsistence by practicing on the credulity of women.

I truly would love to be a designer-label girl, but I am very much High Street.

If after having been exposed to someone's presence you feel as if you've lost a quart of plasma, avoid that presence. You need it like you need pernicious anemia.