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

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

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.

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?

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.

Before you find your soul mate, you must first discover your soul.

We can get the task done without being paid.

A jester, a bad character.

It is bad enough to see young fools, but worse to see old fools.

Not to discover weakness is The Artifice of strength.

There is one thing one has to have either a soul that is cheerful by nature, or a soul made cheerful by work, love, art, and knowledge.

A book is a machine to think with.

You can be sure that most of the high positions in the country would be empty if one were admitted only after an examination as severe as the one we painters must pass.

As long as you don't stop producing guns, you can't be a decent country!

No matter what the fight, don't be ladylike!