like golden syrup.
[TLF.1]

When light encounters a strong magical field it loses all sense of urgency. It slows right down. And on the Discworld the magic was embarrassingly strong, which meant that the soft yellow light of dawn flowed over the sleeping landscape like the caress of a gentle lover or, as some would have it,

"Right," said Vimes. "After all, we're heavily armed men going on patrol among civilians who are, by law, unarmed. If we're careful, we shouldn't get too badly hurt."
[NW.248]

How did it go, now? Think of things happening one after the other. Don't assume that you know what's going to happen, because it might not. Be yourself.
[NW.100]

People are content to wait a long time for salvation, but prefer dinner to turn up inside of an hour.
[NW.331]

One of the hardest lessons in young Sam's life had been finding out that the people in charge weren't in charge. It had been finding out that governments were not, on the whole, staffed by people who had a grip, and that plans were what people made instead of thinking.
[NW.247]

He took another sip of his cocoa. It was only lukewarm now, but along with the cigar it meant that both his hands were occupied. That was important. He wasn't holding a weapon. No one could say afterward that he had a weapon.
[NW.187]

bracket full stop Gods Save the King stroke Queen bracket delete whichever is inappropriate bracket full stop."
[NW.92]

inappropriate bracket Mageſty bracket name of reigning monarch bracket without fear comma favor comma or thought of perſonal ſafety semicolon to purſue evildoers and protect the innocent comma laying down my life if necceſsary in the cauſe of said duty comma so help me bracket aforeſaid deity

"I comma square bracket recruit's name square bracket comma do solemnly swear by square bracket recruit's deity of choice square bracket to uphold the Laws and Ordinances of the city of Ankh-Morpork, serve the public truſt comma and defend the ſubjects of His ſtroke Her bracket delete whichever is

Even a cavalry helmet is not a lot of use against a ballistic cobblestone.
[NW.296]

[Cities] weren't for fighting in. You couldn't see, you couldn't group, you couldn't maneuver and you were always going to be up against people who knew the place like their own kitchen. And you /definitely/ didn't want to fight an enemy that had no uniform.
[NW.298]

"Let the record show that I took command after the captain's sudden attack of obvious insanity," he said.
[. . .]
"Was he insane, Sarge?"
"He'd asked you to shoot at people who weren't shooting back," growled Vimes, striding forward. "That makes him insane, wouldn't you say?"
[NW.260,261]

"Major Mountjoy-Standfast couldn't outthink a bunch of gormless watchmen and civilians and some veterans with garden forks?" said Lord Venturi, who had no idea how much damage a garden fork could do if hurled straight down from an elevation of twenty feet.
[NW.343]

[apologies for the lack of posts last week, I was sick! I'll be pulling quotes this week from Night Watch, the 29th book in the series. This book is about a tumultuous time in Ankh-Morpork's past, a time of civil uprising against a state-sanctioned militarized secret police force.]

"If you /listen/, Hepplewhite, you might note that it is the national anthem sung very badly," he said.
"We can't allow rebels to sing /that/, sir!"
[NW.272]

Now there was the sound of raised voices from behind the barricade.
"/—we own all your helmets, we own all your shoes, we own all your generals, touch us and you'll loooose . . . Morporkia, Morporkia, Morpooroorooorooooorrroorr—/"
"Rebel songs, sir!" said trooper number one. The captain sighed.

A dragon only half-existing was worse than the extremes.
[TCoM.115]

The Luggage gave a little creak, attracting his attention. With a lazy air of calculated menace it shut its lid slowly, grinding Rincewind’s impromptu wedge like a dry loaf.
[TCoM.45]

There is only really one way to describe the effect the smell of Ankh-Morpork has on the visiting nose, and that is by analogy.
Take a tartan. Sprinkle it with confetti. Light it with strobe lights.
Now take a chameleon.
Put the chameleon on the tartan.
Watch it closely.
See?
[TLF.192]

A Thaum is the basic unit of magical strength. It has been universally established as the amount of magic needed to create one small white pigeon or three normal-sized billiard balls.
[TLF.33]

The imp gave him a kind but pitying look.
“Lightning is the spears hurled by the thunder giants when they fight,” it said gently. “Established meteorological fact. You can’t /harness/ it.”
[TCoM.44]

and writing down whatever the bemused man told them. Thus were immortalized in generations of atlases such geographical oddities as Just A Mountain, I Don't Know, What? and, of course, Your Finger You Fool.
[TLF.30]

When the first explorers from the warm lands around the Circle Sea traveled into the chilly hinterland they filled in the blank spaces on their maps by grabbing the nearest native, pointing at some distant landmark, speaking very clearly in a loud voice,

Blue four-sided triangles pinwheeled across his vision. Occasionally he smiled knowingly at nothing very much and said things like "Wow" and "Urgh."
[TLF.18]

It is a little known but true fact that a two legged creature can usually beat a four legged creature over a short distance, simply because of the time it takes the quadruped to get its legs sorted out.
[TCoM.140]

"My name is immaterial," she said.
"That's a pretty name," said Rincewind.
[TCoM.179]

he also believed that anyone could understand anything he said provided he spoke loudly and slowly, that people were basically trustworthy, and that anything could be sorted out among men of goodwill if they just acted sensibly.
[TLF.17]

Twoflower was a tourist, the first of the species to evolve on the Disc, and fundamental to his very existence was the rock-hard belief that nothing bad could really happen to him because he was /not involved/;

Promotion was slow in a profession that traditionally bestowed long life, and it was accepted that younger wizards would frequently seek advancement via dead men's curly shoes, having previously emptied them of their occupants.
[TLF.13]