Guards! Guards!

by Terry Pratchett

It’s been a few years since I last read a Discworld book. They’re consistently entertaining. There were lots of good lines that I didn’t take note of, but here are a few that I did:

They were rough. They were tough. They weren't the sweepings off the gutter, they were what you still found sticking to the gutter when the gutter sweepers had given up in exhaustion.

"I believe you find life such a problem because you think there are the good people and the bad people," said the man. "You're wrong, of course. There are, always and only, the bad people, but some of them are on opposite sides."

To his amazement the door was eventually opened by a butler so elderly that he might have been resurrected by the knocking.