The Captain of the Watch says if you're still in the City by sunrise he will personally have you buried alive.

Insanity is catching.

Stupid men are often capable of things the clever would not dare to contemplate.

Don't do anything I wouldn't do, if you ever find anything I wouldn't do.

Some police forces would believe anything. Not the Metropolitan police, though. The Met was the hardest, most cynically pragmatic, most stubbornly down-to-earth police force in Britain. It would take a lot to faze a copper from the Met. It would take, for example, a huge, battered car that was nothing more nor less than a fireball, a blazing, roaring, twisted metal lemon from Hell, driven by a grinning lunatic in sunglasses, sitting amid the flames, trailing thick black smoke, coming straight at them through the lashing rain and wind at eighty miles an hour.That would do it every time.

What did I tell you about Mister Safety Catch?' said Vimes weakly. When Mister Safety Catch Is Not On, Mister Crossbow Is Not Your Friend,' recited Detritus, saluting.

Rings try to find their way back to their owner. Someone ought to write a book about it.