Some things are fairly obvious when it's a seven-foot skeleton with a scythe telling you them.

Corporal Nobbs had been disqualified from the human race for shoving

Credulous: having views about the world, the universe and humanity's place in it that are shared only by very unsophisticated people and the most intelligent and advanced mathematicians and physicists.

No matter what she did with her hair it took about three minutes for it to tangle itself up again, like a garden hosepipe in a shed [Which, no matter how carefully coiled, will always uncoil overnight and tie the lawnmower to the bicycles].

When I was a kid, I read the science-fiction shelves, and I read the fantasy shelves.

Vimes stalked gloomily through the crowded streets, feeling like the only pickled onion in a fruit salad.

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