We are here and it is now. The way I see it is, after that, everything tends towards guesswork.

Cheery was aware that Commander Vimes didn't like the phrase 'The innocent have nothing to fear', believing the innocent had everything to fear, mostly from the guilty but in the longer term even more from those who say things like 'The innocent have nothing to fear'.

If cats looked like frogs we'd realize what nasty, cruel little bastards they are. Style. That's what people remember.

The enemy isn’t men, or women, it’s bloody stupid people and no-one has the right to be stupid.

Just because someone's a member of an ethnic minority doesn't mean they're not a nasty small-minded little jerk [...]

The city's full of people who you just see around.

It was like being in a Jane Austen novel, but one with far less clothing.