I've often felt depressed; everyone feels depressed.

They say that the prospect of being hanged in the morning concentrates a man's mind wonderfully; unfortunately, what the mind inevitably concentrates on is that, in the morning, it will be in a body that is going to be hanged.

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'.

In the end the problem isn't that you have the wrong sort of government for the People, but that you have the wrong sort of People.

All the higher life forms scythed away, just like that. [ . . . ] Nothing but dust and fundamentalists.

I'm fairy godmothering a girl who sounds like something you put up in the rain.

It's an interesting fact that fewer than 17 % of Real cats end their lives with the same name they started with. Much family effort goes into selecting one at the start ("She looks like a Winnifred to me"), and the as the years roll by it suddenly finds itself being called Meepo or Ratbag.