I'd like to sell a lot of books.
They obeyed, as wise men do when a woman puts her foot down . . .
Winston Churchill said 'In war time, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies'. Any book called The Truth should therefore have one.
I have no use for people who have learned the limits of the possible.
It's a terrible thing for a man when his woman gangs up on him wi' a toad
And these are your reasons, my lord?" "Do you think I have others?" said Lord Vetinari. "My motives, as ever, are entirely transparent." Hughnon reflected that 'entirely transparent' meant either that you could see right through them or that you couldn't see them at all.