Jingo Quotes
"Nah… four camels, maybe four camels and a goat in a good light. And when she's had a shave."
"Just because someone makes himself pleasant and likeable you start to be suspicious of him."
"It's hardly a concealed weapon, is it? It's nearly bigger than him. He's practically a concealed owner!"
"In the absence of anything resembling a Lord Mayor's Show or a state opening of Parliament, it was one of the few formal opportunities the citizens had of jeering at their social superiors."
"We used to rule this city. Look at our big staffs with the knobs on the end."
"What's he doing now? Can't you see? Not with my hands over my eyes."
"He's just blown a smoke ring… first one of the day, he always does that."
"The most you could do was lock up his body. The gods alone knew where his mind went."
"The sight of a waterfall or a soaring bird would send him spinning down some new path of practical speculation."
"If the enemy has an impregnable stronghold, see he stays there."
"Give a man a fire and he's warm for a day, but set fire to him and he's warm for the rest of his life."
"Deserts were all hot sand and camels and… camels, yes, and dates."
"While days and kings and empires come and go, the night is always the same age, always aeons deep."
"A man who is a guest in your tent, even if he is your worst enemy, you owe him hospitality for three days."
"We don't kill merchants, why should we kill merchants? What is the sense? How foolish to be killing the gift horse that lays the golden egg!"
"We kill merchants, we rob too much, they never come back. Dumb. We let them go, they get rich again, our sons rob them. Such is wisdom."
"If you plant merchants, they don't grow so good."
"My father told me never to eat anything that can wink back."
"I heard her earlier. She's probably enjoying herself. She doesn't really get much of a chance to let herself go in Ankh-Morpork."
"Oh, not really, sir. She buys her own dog biscuits and she's got her own flap in the door."
"Thank you," she said, wrapping it around her. "And before anyone says anything, I just bit him on the bum. Hard."
"Tacticus says all armies are the same size in the night, sir."
"We expect them to be good at it, Blue Eyes. We are D'regs!"
"You can't trust the water," said Sergeant Colon.
"It had never occurred to him that they might do it because they'd get yelled at if they didn't."
"The docks of Al-Khali were like docks everywhere, because all docks everywhere are connected."
"‘For the gods, Ankh-Morpork and amazing things Nobby's mum can do with cheese’? That'll strike fear in the hearts of the enemy!"
"Vimes, on the other hand, was prepared to hit anything with anything."
""We got the man what done it" carries a lot more gravitas than "We got the man what looked as if he was going to do it," especially when people say, "Prove it.""
""They wouldn't want to know about it, sarge.""
""It's your type of unarmed combat," said Vimes. "It probably takes some getting used to.""
""Is it? Wretched thing. You'd think a nail would work, wouldn't you?""
""‘Get us some clothes so that we'll blend in,’" muttered Colon. "That's all very well to say."