‘... strictly speaking, topiary is not actually illegal, although I rather suspect that one or two folk are going to be the first up against the hedge when the revolution comes.’ (ISWM)
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Basically, there were two sides to the world. There was the entire computer games software industry engaged in a tremendous effort to stamp out piracy, and there was Wobbler. Currently, Wobbler was in front. (OYCSM)
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)
The Nac Mac Feegle are the most dangerous of the fairy races, particularly when drunk. They love drinking, fighting and stealing, and will in fact steal anything that is not nailed down. If it is nailed down, they will steal the nails as well. (HFS)
'Was there a third party?'
'I dunno. I never get invited to dem fings.' (FE) 'Don't trust the cannibal just 'cos he's usin' a knife and fork.' (CJ)
... he does the best he can in an imperfect world and calls it the law. (PP)
'That's illegal,' said Sergeant Bunyan sternly. 'In other words, don't let me catch you doing it.' (WVC)
... he was honest, because good criminals have to be honest. (H)
He was known to Ankh-Morpork's professional underclass as a thoughtful, patient man, and considered something of an intellectual because some of his tattoos were spelled right. (H)
There was considerable satisfaction in a clean kill. What there wasn't supposed to be was pleasure in a messy one. (H)
... where Nobby went wrong was thinking small. He sidled into places and pinched things that weren't worth much. If only he'd sidled into continents and stolen entire cities, slaughtering many of the inhabitants in the process, he'd have been a pillar of the community. (FC)
‘Pirates have a very monotonous diet, which might be why they’re angry all the time.’ (AM)
'.... there's big crimes and little crimes. Sometimes the little crimes look big and the big crimes you can hardly see, but the crucial thing is to decide which is which.' (MA)
Cuddy had only been a guard for a few days but already he had absorbed one important and basic fact: it is almost impossible for anyone to be in a street without breaking the law. (MA)
So many crimes are solved by a happy accident – by the random stopping of a car, by an overheard remark, by someone of the right nationality happening to be within five miles of the scene of the crime without an alibi … (MA)
Vorbis liked to see properly guilty consciences. That was what consciences were for. Guilt was the grease in which the wheels of the authority turned. (SG)
She didn't look like a mass murderer, but Linsay recalled that mass murderers never did. (BOS)
'Do you think picking someone up by their ankles and bouncing their head on the floor comes under the heading of Striking a Superior Officer?' (GG)
… she was too big to be a thief, too honest to be an assassin, too intelligent to be a wife, and too proud to enter the only other female profession generally available. (LF)
'I'm good at putting rumours, suspicions and instinct together and getting the right result, because I'm a scoundrel.' (RS)
'... bandits and governments 'ave so much in common that they might be interchangeable anywhere in the world ...' (RS)
She didn’t look like a mass murderer, but Linsay recalled that mass murderers never did. (LE)
‘… the law cannot operate retrospectively. If it did none of us would be safe.’ (Sn)
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