A witch who is bored might do ANYTHING. People said things like 'we had to make our own amusements in those days' as if this signified some kind of moral worth, and perhaps it did, but the last thing you wanted a witch to do was get bored and start making her own amusements, because witches sometimes had famously erratic ideas about what was amusing.

Vimes's lack of interest in other people's children was limitless.

I grow as many of our vegetables as I can, because my granddad was a professional gardener, and it's in the blood.

It's not lying when you do it to officers!

He moved in a way that suggested he was attempting the world speed record for the nonchalant walk.

Wisdom comes from experience. Experience is often a result of lack of wisdom.

Either dragons should exist completely or fail to exist at all, he felt. A dragon only half-existing was worse than the extremes.