129 Dune Quotes (2024) #3

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Lady Jessica: I know she has come to test him. No man has ever survived being tested with the box. Tonight I may lose my son.

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Paul: Father!
[inner voice]
Paul: Father, I promise, one day, the sleeper will awaken and I will avenge your death. I will not stop until I destroy the Emperor and the Baron.

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Gurney Halleck: Behold, as a wild ass in the desert, go I forth to my work.

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Feyd-Rautha: Why are you going to prolong the inevitable? I will kill you!

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Reverend Mother Ramallo: We are the secret of the universe. We are the secret. We know of CHOAM in the universe, Combine Honnete Ober Advancer Mercantiles, controlled by the Emperor Shaddam IV and all the great housses of the Landsraad. We know of CHOAM, yet we are the secret. We know of the Bene Gesserit sisterhood, their selective breeding plan for 90 generations to produce the

Kwisatz Haderach, whom they will control. The one they call the witches, yet we are the secret. We know of the Guild and the navigators' power to fold space and their control over all interplanetary travel. We know they have the seeing eye, yet we are the secret. The Bakka shall weep no more for there is now at work a higher power.

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Reverend Mother Mohiam: [after the ordeal of the box] Kul Wahad! No woman-child ever withstood that much!

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Paul: The Worm is the Spice! The Spice is the Worm!

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Dr. Kynes: [voice over] He shall know your ways as if born to them.

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Paul: Would you really have drawn my blood?
Gurney Halleck: If you'd have fought one whit below your abilities; I'd have given you a good scar to remind ye.

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Reverend Mother Mohiam: Jessica you were told to bear only daughters to the Atreides.
[Jessica ignores her, lost in thought]
Reverend Mother Mohiam: Jessica!
Lady Jessica: It meant so much to him.
Reverend Mother Mohiam: You thought only of a Duke's desire for a son? Desires don't come into this. An

Atreides daughter could have been wed to a Harkonnen heir and sealed the breech. We may lose both bloodlines now.
Lady Jessica: I vowed never to regret my decision. I'll pay for all my own mistakes.
Reverend Mother Mohiam: And your son will pay with you.

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Baron Harkonnen: You wish to join your wife, is that it, traitor?
Dr. Wellington Yueh: She lives?
Baron Harkonnen: You wish to join her? So, join her!
Piter De Vries: [stabs Yueh in the back]
Dr. Wellington Yueh: You think you have won? You think I don't know what I gained for my wife?

[dies]
Baron Harkonnen: Take him away.

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Paul: The Harkonnens are our enemy. Yes. But, behind them I suspect is the Emperor.
Thufir Hawat: You will make a formidable Duke!

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Paul: You have no need for your weapons with me, Gurney Halleck.

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Piter De Vries: I knew Yueh's wife. I was the one who broke his Imperial conditioning. I've thought of many pleasures with you. It is perhaps better that you die in the innards of a worm.

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The Baron's Doctor: [treating Baron Harkonnen] Put the pick in there, Pete, and turn it 'round real neat.

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Paul: Is it true, that the sand can blow at seven hundred kilometers per hour?
Dr. Wellington Yueh: It can render flesh to dust in minutes. And these dry winds can generate tremendous static electricity in the atmosphere. Our body shields won't have enough power to operate in the open air on Arrakis.

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Duncan Idaho: May the Hand of God be with you.
Paul: May the Hand of God be with us all, Duncan.

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Dr. Wellington Yueh: When you see the Baron remember the tooth!

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Baron Harkonnen: What does Leto say, Piter?
Piter De Vries: Vendetta, he says, using the ancient tongue. The art of kanly is still alive in the Universe. He does not wish to meet or speak with you.
Baron Harkonnen: I made my peace gesture. The forms of kanly have been obeyed!