... never give a cat a name you would mind shouting out in a strained, worried voice around midnight while banging a tin bowl with a spoon. And stick to something short. (UC)
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When we break down, it all breaks down. (NW)
... upper class etiquette in Ankh-Morpork held that, while you could snub your friends any time you felt like it, it was the height of bad form to be impolite to your worst enemy. (NW)
A city like Ankh-Morpork was only two meals away from chaos at the best of times. (NW)
... a cartwheel rolled out of the smoke and away down the road. This always happens. (NW)
It takes a long time for anything to happen inside the head of an ox, but, when it does, it happens extensively. (NW)
Who knew what evil lurked in the hearts of men? A copper, that’s who. (NW)
... Rust was always a man to interrupt an answer with a demand for the answer he was in fact interrupting. (NW)
‘Spoons are not important at this point!’ (NW)
We’re going to get cheesed.*
* Like creamed, but it goes on for a lot longer. (NW) ‘Mum’s are mums, Lance-Corporal. They don’t like to see men managing by themselves, in case that sort of thing catches on.’ (NW)
Dibbler’s pies quite often looked appetising. Therein lay their one and only charm. (NW)
... there was something about his expression, as of a rat who was expecting cheese right around the next corner, and had been expecting cheese around the last corner too, and the corner before that, and, although the world has turned out so far to be full of corners yet completely innocent of any cheese at all, was nevertheless quite certain that, just around the corner, cheese awaited. (NW)
Everyone was guilty of something. Vimes knew that. Every copper knew that. That was how you maintained your authority... (NW)
It wasn’t that the city was lawless. It had plenty of laws. It just didn’t offer many opportunities not to break them. (NW)
He didn’t look around, and watch and learn, and then say, ‘This is how people are, how do we deal with it?’ No, he sat and thought: ‘This is how the people ought to be, how can we change them?’ And that was a good enough thought for a priest but not for a copper ... (NW)
‘You’re an interesting man, sergeant. You make enemies like a craftsman.’ (NW)
‘... you doctors aren’t supposed to hurt people, are you?’
‘Only in the course of normal incompetence.’ (NW) He was a man whose mind was ponderous enough to have momentum; it was quite hard for his thoughts to change direction. (NW)
‘... disharmony, like a cat, gets everywhere.’ (NW)
... Vimes liked to see a bit of battered armour around the place. It showed that someone had been battering it. (NW)
... Vimes found it better to look at Authority for orders and then filter those orders through a fine mesh of common sense, adding a generous scoop of creative misunderstanding and maybe even incipient deafness if circumstances demanded, because Authority rarely descended to street level. (NW)
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