Inside every lump of coal there's a diamond waiting to get out.

Where's the pleasure in bein' the winner if the loser ain't alive to know they've lost?

It's not worth doing something unless you were doing something that someone, somewere, would much rather you weren't doing.

No one is actually dead until the ripples they cause in the world die away.

Any fool could be a witch with a runic knife, but it took skill to be one with an apple corer.

It is a long-cherished tradition among a certain type of military thinker that huge casualties are the main thing. If they are on the other side then this is a valuable bonus.

A Duke couldn't have the arse hanging out of his trousers when meeting foreign diplomats. Actually even plain old Sam Vimes never had the arse hanging out of his trousers, either, but no one would have actually started a war if he had.