Putting up a statue to someone who tried to stop a war is not very, um, statuesque. Of course, if you had butchered five hundred of your own men out of arrogant carelessness, we'd be melting the bronze already.

It's no wonder most religions are born in the desert, because when men lay beneath that boundless night sky and look up at the infinite expanse of creation they have an uncontrollable urge to put something in the way .

The kind of accidents you prefer to call...accidents.

No! Please! I'll tell you whatever you want to know!" the man yelled. "Really?" said Vimes. "What's the orbital velocity of the moon?" "What?" "Oh, you'd like something simpler?

You had to hand it to the Patrician, he admitted grudgingly. If you didn't, he sent men to come and take it away.

Granny knew all about bad fortune-telling. It was harder than the real thing. You needed a good imagination.

Money doesn't buy happiness, Gytha." "I only wanted to rent it for a few weeks!