Vetinari: Commander, I always used to consider that you had a definite anti-authoritarian streak in you.
Vimes: Sir?
Vetinari: It seems that you have managed to retain this even though you are authority.
Vimes: Sir?
Vetinari: That's practically zen.
Vimes: Sir?
Vetinari: It seems that you have managed to retain this even though you are authority.
Vimes: Sir?
Vetinari: That's practically zen.
"Lion El'Jonson was just a mess. Being both a self-absorbed, spiteful and envious prick, and an honorable, courageous and dutiful warrior at the same time. Fucking confusing."
— The Emperor of Mankind discussing the character flaws of one of his twenty sons, If the Emperor Had a Text-to-Speech Device
"I use [the Force] as I would use a poison, and in the hopes of understanding it, I will learn the way to kill it. But perhaps these are the excuses of an old woman, who has grown to rely on a thing she despises."
— Darth Traya, Knights of the Old Republic II: The Sith Lords
"Now, unsurprisingly, a goddess of beauty and sex simultaneously being a goddess of war was unlikely to bother the Spartans, because, you know, Spartans, but the rest of Greece didn't seem too keen on the concept - apparently, it was considered an inherent contradiction in values."
— Overly Sarcastic Productions, "Miscellaneous Myths: Aphrodite"
"Just to the left, and not very far away, were the Triple Demons of Compromise—one tall and thin, one short and fat, and the third exactly like the other two."
