Top 14 Discworld Sam Vimes Quotes
#1. History was full of the bones of good men who'd followed bad orders in the hope that they could soften the blow. Oh, yes, there were worse things they could do, but most of them began right where they started following bad orders.
Terry Pratchett
#2. I began to see how everything was so wrong. When growers can have an intricate watering system to irrigate their crops but they can't have running water inside the houses of workers.
Studs Terkel
#3. Right. Like I'm going to lose my freaking mind and hop right down the demonic bunny trail with Marshall so he can paw me every chance he gets.
Addison Moore
#4. It is not the intellect but the wisdom of love that will reveal the beauty of life.
Debasish Mridha
#5. The only way to know the real Self in the absence of knowledge, is to be "it".
Vivian Amis
#6. I assure you I will not kill you," said Inigo.
"I know that," said Vimes. "But will you try?
Terry Pratchett
#8. 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
#9. I really want to do well at this upcoming match! I'm going to try really really hard! Because it may be my dad's first memory of a match. I really want to win.
Kim Su-mi
#10. You should totally get implants," she said admiringly in the mirror. I shake my head. "I don't yet know what I'm going to do with my life, Diane. But I'm hoping being shaped like a barbell could only be a hindrance.
Emma McLaughlin
#11. I'm not a natural killer! See this? See what it says? I'm supposed to keep the peace, I am! If I kill people to do it, I'm reading the wrong manual!
Terry Pratchett
#13. The pleasure of reading biography, like that of reading letters, derives from the universal hunger to penetrate other lives.
Patricia Ann Meyer Spacks
#14. I've faced a hell of a lot worse than you today, you lizard-tongued monster!
Denise Grover Swank
