“If failure had no penalty success would not be a prize.”

“He was, he would be the first to admit, a coward, an incompetent, and not even very good at being a failure.”

“Apes had it worked out. No ape would philosophize, "The mountain is, and is not." They would think, "The banana is. I will eat the banana. There is no banana. I want another banana.”

“If words had weight, a single sentence from Death would have anchored a ship.”

“What a mess the world was in, Vimes reflected. Constable Visit had told him the meek would inherit it, and what had the poor devils done to deserve that?”

“Neither claimed any responsibility for Milton Keynes, but both reported it as a success.”

“If you were going to be successful in the world of crime, you needed a reputation for honesty.”