They are said to be incapable of lying, although this piece of information has been provided by the Zoons themselves, causing, as it were, a philosophical conundrum. (Sn)
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… he might not only have bitten off more than he could chew, but also more than he could lift. (Sn)
‘… it’s quite easy for people to be jolly decent when they can afford to hire thoroughly un-decent people …’ (Sn)
‘What is normal? Normal is yesterday and last week and last month taken together.’ (Sn)
…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’ … (Sn)
He was a scallywag, a chancer, a ruthless fighter and a dangerous driver of bargains over the speed limit. Since it was a bit of a mouthful, he was referred to as a successful businessman, since that more or less amounted to the same thing. (Sn)
‘… if he gets out and away then you would find yourself in a situation so problematical that the word “problem” just would not fit the situation.’ (Sn)
‘… there’s always an easy way, and then again, there’s always the hard way. Currently, this is the easy way, but the hard way is also quite easy, in a manner of speaking.’ (Sn)
… what good is a snooker room without smoke twisting among the lights and turning the air a desolate blue, the colour of dead hopes and lost chances? (Sn)
‘… the worst thing you can do is nothing.’ (Sn)
Sometimes you had to take a look at yourself and then look away. (Sn)
‘… what kind of issues of survival arise during double-entry bookkeeping?’
A.E. Pessimal sighed. ‘It can get pretty hazardous as the end of the fiscal year draws near, captain.’ (Sn) ‘… how hard can writing be? After all, most of the words are going to be and, the and I and it, and so on, and there’s a huge number to choose from, so a lot of the work has already been done for you.’ (Sn)
‘Goodness is about what you do. Not what you pray to.’ (Sn)
‘… some of the most terrible things in the world are done by people who think, genuinely think, that they’re doing it for the best, especially if there is some god involved.’ (Sn)
‘Not all questions are answered, commander, but fortunately some answers are questioned.’ (Sn)
And it was all about survival, and survival was all about pride. You didn’t have much control over your life, but by Jimmy you could keep it clean and show the world you were poor but respectable. (Sn)
They were crude weapons, to be sure, but a flint axe hitting your head does not need a degree in physics. (Sn)
Well, we live and learn, Vimes thought, or perhaps more importantly, we learn and live. (Sn)
All long-term couples have their code. Classically there is one that the wife uses in polite conversation to warn her husband that, because of hasty dressing, or absent-mindedness, he is becoming exposed in the crotch department. (Sn)
… you could forgive anyone who could score from the centre spot … (Sn)
‘… the only important thing in a fight to the death is that the death should not be yours.’ (Sn)
‘ … there is also the possibility of becoming a matron if you reach the specified weight.’ (Sn)
It was often a good idea, Vimes had always found, to give the silly bits of the brain something to do, so they did not interfere with the important ones which had a proper job to fulfil. (Sn)
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