Quotes from Frank Herbert

Come, come, the Baron said. We don't have much time and pain is quick. Please don't bring it to this, my dear Duke. The Baron looked up at Piter who stood at Leto's shoulder. Piter doesn't have all his tools here, but I'm sure he could improvise. Improvisation is sometimes the best, Baron.

But you invite ..." "I invite a bit of military nonsense." "That's what I ..." "Duncan, I am a teacher. Remember that. By repetition, I impress the lesson." "What lesson?" "The ultimately suicidal nature of military foolishness.

Do not count a human dead until you've seen his body. And even then you can make a mistake.

We will never forgive and we will never forget.

How strange that so few people ever looked up from the spice long enough to wonder at the near-ideal nitrogen-oxygen-CO2 balance being maintained here in the absence of large areas of plant cover.

They're trained to believe, not to know. Belief can be manipulated. Only knowledge is dangerous.

The old woman was a witch shadow—hair like matted spiderwebs, hooded 'round darkness of features, eyes like glittering jewels.

All rebels are closet aristocrats.

Seeing all the chattering faces, Paul was suddenly repelled by them. They were cheap masks locked on festering thoughts—voices gabbling to drown out the loud silence in every breast.

Nothing wins more loyalty for a leader than an air of bravura, the Duke said. I, therefore, cultivate an air of bravura.

Move slowly and the day of your revenge will come, Tuek said. Speed is a device of Shaitan. Cool your sorrow–we've the diversions for it; three things there are that ease the heart–water, green grass, and the beauty of woman.

Mood's a thing for cattle or for making love. You fight when the necessity arises, no matter your mood.

I'm the well-trained fruit tree. Full of well-trained feelings and abilities and all of them grafted onto me

A leader tries to perpetuate the conditions which demand his leadership. Thus, the leader requires the outsider.

You, Priest in your mufti, you are a chaplain to the self-satisfied. I come not to challenge Muad'Dib but to challenge you! Is your religion real when it costs you nothing and carries no risk? Is your religion real when you fatten upon it? Is your religion real when you commit atrocities in its name? Whence comes your downward degeneration from the original revelation? Answer me, Priest!

Em tempos, os homens entregavam o pensamento às máquinas, na esperança de que isso os libertasse. Mas só permitiu que outros homens com máquinas os escravizassem

To see eternity was to be exposed to eternity's whims, oppressed by endless dimensions.

Survival is staying alive one breath at a time. p. 251

Ignorance has its advantages. A universe of surprises is what I pray for!

Delay is as dangerous as the wrong answer.

The limit of the law is the limit of enforcement—the real limit of organized society.

What have we here—jinn or human?

For them, 'mektub al mellah', as the Fremen say. The thing was written with salt, Irulan translated.

Black is a blind remembering, she thought. You listen for pack sounds, for the cries of those who hunted your ancestors in a past so ancient only your most primitive cells remember. The ears see. The nostrils see.