People are content to wait a long time for salvation, but expect dinner to turn up within the hour.

Two types of people laugh at the law: those that break it and those that make it.

We who think we are about to die will laugh at anything.

Truth! Freedom! Justice! And a hard-boiled egg!

In the words of the philosopher Sceptum, the founder of my profession: am I going to get paid for this?

No! Please! I'll tell you whatever you want to know!" the man yelled. "Really?" said Vimes. "What's the orbital velocity of the moon?""What?""Oh, you'd like something simpler?

I get it, ' said the prisoner. 'Good Cop, Bad Cop, eh?'If you like.' said Vimes. 'But we're a bit short staffed here, so if I give you a cigarette would you mind kicking yourself in the teeth?

Mums are mums, lance-constable. They don't like to see men managing by themselves, in case that sort of thing catches on.

Even dirty water has a bath

I don't think I've had a more miserable life than a lot of people. I think I've had a pretty lucky life.

It may be that the life I desire for her no longer even exists, yet I know what she does not. That there is nothing to lose.

In youth, before I waxe' d old, The blind boy,Venus' baby, For want of cunning made me bold, In bitter hive to grope for honey.

Life is beauty, admire it.

The outward manifestations of an inner combustion are never very directed.

I never say something I cannot do. And I always will do more than I can say.

The price of barbecue is eternal vigilance.

I played English football - soccer - instead of American football, because we couldn't afford the equipment.

Duncan Aldrich has been my partner in most recording projects, and touring projects, for the past decade.