Men at Arms Quotes

Where people went wrong was thinking that simple meant the same thing as stupid.

The city’s full of people who you just see around.

Sometimes it’s better to light a flamethrower than curse the darkness.

People ought to think for themselves. The problem is, people only think for themselves if you tell them to. [Captain Vimes says]

It’s better to light a candle than curse the darkness.

If you have to look along the shaft of an arrow from the wrong end, if a man has you entirely at his mercy, then hope like hell that man is an evil man. Because the evil like power, power over people, and they want to see you in fear. They want you to know you’re going to die. So they’ll talk. They’ll gloat. They’ll watch you squirm. They’ll put off the moment of murder like another man will put off a good cigar. So hope like hell your captor is an evil man. A good man will kill you with hardly a word.

If you had enough money, you could hardly commit crimes at all. You just perpetrated amusing little peccadilloes.

Don’t stick your nose where someone can pull it off and eat it.

Dogs are not like cats, who amusingly tolerate humans only until someone comes up with a tin opener that can be operated with a paw.