“Don’t trust the cannibal just ’cos he’s usin’ a knife and fork!”

“You saying killing a rat would be murder?" said Raufman."Yes. Of course.""But it's just - ""Talk to the paw, mister, 'cos the whiskers don't want to know!”

“I don't see what's so triffic about creating people as people and then gettin' upset 'cos they act like people.”

“Yeah, all right, but everyone knows they torture people," mumbled Sam."Do they?" said Vimes. "Then why doesn't anyone do anything about it?""'cos they torture people.”

“You know how to pray, don’t you? Just put your hands together and hope.”

“Any fool could be a witch with a runic knife, but it took skill to be one with an apple corer.”

“. . . had decided what to do, which was to smile like the morning sun with a knife in its teeth.”