Commander Vimes Quotes

#1. And power is a game of smoke and mirrors,' said her ladyship, reaching for the wine. 'Oddly enough, Commander Vimes reminds me of that nearly every day. No civil police force could hold out against an irate and resolute population. The trick is not to let them realize that. Yes?

Terry Pratchett

#2. Cheery was aware that Commander Vimes didn't like the phrase 'The innocent have nothing to fear', believing the innocent had everything to fear, mostly from the guilty but in the longer term even more from those who say things like 'The innocent have nothing to fear'.

Terry Pratchett

#3. The bestselling novel taking the Ankh-Morpork literary world by storm was dedicated to Commander Samuel Vimes.
The title of the book was Pride and Extreme Prejudice.

Terry Pratchett

#4. Opposite Lennart and Maud lives Alf. He drives a taxi and always wears a leather jacket under a layer of irascibility.

Fredrik Backman

#5. The BAFTA is both absolutely fantastic and sort of meaningless at the same time.

Kenneth Branagh

#6. If you want to learn about a culture, you look at what buildings the people lived in but you also want to know about their cosmos.

Marina Warner

#7. Over the years she'd found that that was all it took, that lazy smile, and she could tell the truth without risk of being believed.

Laini Taylor

#8. A person who can create ideas worthy of note is a person who has learned much from others.

Konosuke Matsushita

#9. Commander, I always used to consider that you had a definite anti-authoritarian streak in you."
"Sir?"
"It seems that you have managed to retain this even though you are authority."
"Sir?"
"That's practically zen.

Terry Pratchett

#10. Learned we may be with another man's learning: we can only be wise with wisdom of our own.

Michel De Montaigne

#11. In truth, I have always been amazed by a group of people who all work toward putting one person's vision forward - that's an interesting story for me.

Jim Rash