‘Don’t meddle in the affairs of witches because they clout you around the ear.’ (ISWM)
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‘“Pretty please with sprinkles on top” is not a recognised method of interrogation!’ (MR)
What was the worst that could happen?
So many things, he thought as he set out again, that it would be hard to decide which one was the worst. (TT) People were good at imagining hells, and some they occupied while they were alive. (CJ)
The Patrician was not, on his own admission, a lover of technical things that spun and, indeed hummed. Nor of unidentifiable squiggles. He saw them as things with which you couldn't negotiate, or argue; you couldn't hang them either, or even creatively torture them. (JD)
'You know what he is! Why not kill-? he began, but he was interrupted.
'Because it doesn't matter what he is. It matters what we are.' (CP) A thought could be like a spear. You do not throw a spear at the widow, the orphan, the grieving ... (N)
... Ridcully believed that everything had come into being by chance or, in the particular case of the Dean, out of spite. (SM)
He was one of those people who would recoil from an assault on strength, but attack weakness without mercy. (MA)
This was the definition of eternity; it was the space of time devised by the Great God Om to ensure that everyone got the punishment that was due to them. (SG)
Windsor Castle seemed to Luis from without an intimidating pile, an excrescence of centuries of wealth heaped upon a core of medieval brutality. (LU)
'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)
Her singing always cheered him up. Life seemed so much brighter when she stopped. (P)
… he knew exactly how to make a short word like “suffer” turn into a very long experience. (SC)
The Patrician’s personal guard was not known for its responsive approach to community policing, preferring to cut bits off instead. Among the things they took a dim view of was, well, basically, people being in the same universe. (S)
The Queen appeared as innocent as one of those mountains which year after year do nothing very much but smoke a little, and then one day end up causing a whole civilization to become an art installation. (RS)
‘… 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)
… since tired coppers didn't like having to do something, they did it good and hard, so with any luck they wouldn't have to do it again any time soon. (UA)
'Three cheeses isn't a choice, it's a penance!' (UA)
'Mrs. Tilly, I think you wrote a lovely well-spelled and grammatical letter to us suggesting that everyone under the age of eighteen should be flogged once a week to stop them being so noisy?’
‘Once a day, Mr de Worde,’ said Mrs. Tilly. ‘That’ll teach ‘em to go around being young!' (TT) ... you only thought the world would be better if it was run by women if you didn’t actually know many women. Or old women, at least. Take the whole thing about the dimity scarves. Women had to cover their hair on Fridays, but there was nothing about this in the Book, which was pretty dar-pretty damn rigorous about most things. It was just a custom. It was done because it was always done. And if you forgot, or didn’t want to, the old women got you. They had eyes like hawks. They could practically see through walls. And the men took notice, because no man wanted to cross the crones in case they started watching him, so half-hearted punishment would be dealt out. Whenever there was an execution, and especially when there was a whipping, you always found the grannies in the front row, sucking peppermints. (MR)
'Witches just aren’t like that,’ said Magrat. ‘We live in harmony with the great cycles of Nature, and do no harm to anyone, and it’s wicked of them to say we don’t. We ought to fill their bones with hot lead.' (WS)
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)
The Patrician was not a man you shook a finger at unless you wanted to end up being able to count only to nine. (GG)
Constable Visit was an Omnian, whose country’s traditional approach to evangelism was to put unbelievers to torture and the sword. Things had become a lot more civilized these days but Omnians still had a strenuous and indefatigable approach to spreading the Word, and had merely changed the nature of the weapons. Constable Visit spent his days off in company with his co-religionist Smite-The-Unbeliever-With-Cunning-Arguments, ringing doorbells and causing people to hide behind the furniture everywhere in the city. (FC)
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