Monstrous Regiment (Discworld, #31; Industrial Revolution, #3)

by Terry Pratchett

The presence of those seeking the truth is infinitely to be preferred to the presence of those who think they’ve found it.

“Pers’nally, I’ve found religion in battle is as much use as a chocolate helmet.

Jackrum put up with Blouse because you’ve got to have an officer, Polly thought. If you don’t have an officer, some other officer’ll take you over. And a woman by herself is missing a man, while a man by himself is his own master.

“They won’t even tell me what charges are going to be made.” “Being Bad Girls,” said Tonker. “Who are we fooling, sir? The enemy wanted just to be quietly rid of us, and the general wants the same thing! That’s the trouble about the good guys and the bad guys! They’re all guys!”

The pencil was hovering. Around it, the world turned. It wrote things down, and then they got everywhere. The pen might not be mightier than the sword, but maybe the printing press was heavier than the siege weapon. Just a few words can change everything . .