… a crowbar is a universal pass key. (Sn)
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…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)
Everyone should occasionally break the law in some small and delightful way, Drumknott. It’s good for the hygiene of the brain.’ (Sn)
'And these young me- people are clearly very successful,’ he added. This obviously carried a lot of weight with the mayor, as it does with many people. No-one likes a poor thief. (SM)
‘It’s just a walk in the park!’
‘You mean people are going to mug us and steal all our money and kick us viciously in the ribs?’ said Rincewind. (LH) 'We’ve had a burglareah, officer!’
‘Burglar rear?’ said Nobby. ‘Oh dear, sir,’ said Colon, putting a warning on the corporal’s shoulder. ‘Anything taken?’ ‘Years, I rather think that’s hwhy it was a burglareah.' (Th) ... is it really stealing if what’s stolen isn’t missed? And is it stealing if you’re stealing from thieves? (GP)
'Hit a man too hard and you can only rob him once; hit him just hard enough and you can rob him every week.' (IT)
People came to Ankh-Morpork to seek their fortune. Unfortunately, other people sought it too. (SM)
One of the remarkable innovations introduced by the Patrician was to make the Thieves’ Guild responsible for theft, with annual budgets, forward planning and, above all, rigid job protection. Thus, in return for an agreed average level of crime per annum, the thieves themselves saw to it that unauthorised crime was met with the full force of Injustice, which was generally a stick with nails in it. (GG)
This was the type of thief that could steal the initiative, the moment and the words right out of you mouth. (S)
'... the only reason for walking into the jaws of Death is so’s you can steal His gold teeth.' (COM)
One or two of the old barrows had been exposed over the years, their huge stones attracting their own folklore. If you left your unshod horse at one of them overnight and placed sixpence on the stone, in the morning the sixpence would be gone and you’d never see your horse again, either ... (CJ)
'You’re a criminal?’ said Teppic.
‘Well, criminal’s a dirty word, know what I mean?’said the little ancestor. ‘I’d prefer entrepreneur.' (P) 'I was being persecuted for my beliefs.’
‘That’s terrible,’ said Teppic. Khuft spat. ‘Damn right. I believed people wouldn’t notice I’d sold them camels with plaster teeth until I was well out of town.' (P) '... it’s even easier to be a crook when no one knows you’re a crook, haha. But coppering depends on people believing you’re a copper.' (NW)
Only crimes could take place in darkness. Punishment had to be done in the light. That was the job of a good
watchman, Carrot always said. To light a candle in the dark. (FC) Colon in particular had great difficulty with the idea that you went on investigating after someone had confessed. It outraged his training and experience. You got a confession and there it ended. You didn’t go around disbelieving people. You disbelieved people only when they said they were innocent. Only guilty people were trustworthy. (FC)
People would probably say they had lived blameless lives.
But Vimes was a policeman. No one lived a completely blameless life. It might be just possible, by lying very still in a cellar somewhere, to get through a day without committing a crime. But only just. And, even then, you were probably guilty of loitering. (FC) Nanny Ogg was basically a law-abiding person when she had no reason to break the law, and therefore had that kind of person’s attitude to law-enforcement officers, which was one of deep and permanent distrust. (Ma)
'I think he played a lute. Or maybe it was a lyre.’
‘Ach, weel, that’ll suit us fine,’ said Daft Wullie. ‘We’re experts at looting an’ then lyin’ aboot it.' (W) 'But I’m not doing anything wrong,’ said William.
‘No, it may just be you’re not doing anything illegal,’ said Vimes. (TT) Suicide was against the law. Johnny had wondered why. It meant that if you missed, or the gas ran out, or the rope broke, you could get locked up in prison to show you that life was really very jolly and thoroughly worth living. (JD)
'Can you think of any reason why someone would kill him?’
The troll scratched his head. ‘Well, ‘cos dey wanted him dead, I reckon. Dat’s a good reason..' (FE) However efficient a ruler may be, there is always someone, isn’t there, who feels that his diet might be improved by some artificial additive, such as arsenic. (NOC)
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