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Frank Herbert's original series

Dune

  • "S'you. Killed...guard...sent...get...Tuek...escape...m'Lady...you...you...here...no..." Shadout Mapes
  • "You...think...you...de...feated...me. You...think...I...did...not...know...what...I...bought...for...my...Wanna." Wellington Yueh, to the Baron after Piter knifes him in the back
  • "The day the flesh shapes and the flesh the day shapes." Leto's final thought
  • "I've been a long time waiting for you. Here is my life." Reverend Mother Ramallo, beaming all of her life experiences into Jessica's mind
  • "One day...one...of us...will...get...you." Ex-Atreides slave-gladiator, to Feyd-Rautha
  • "I have her, Majesty! Shall I dispatch her now— eeeeeeeeeeeh!" Baron Vladimir Harkonnen, when Alia slashes him with a gom jabbar
  • "See, Majesty? See your traitor's needle? Did you think that I who've given my life to service of the Atreides would give them less now?" Thufir Hawat
  • "You see it there on my hip? Your death, fool. It'll stop your muscles and my knife will finish you. There'll be never a trace left to detect!" Feyd-Rautha Harkonnen
  • "Religion must remain an outlet for people who say to themselves, 'I am not the kind of person I want to be.' It must never sink into an assemblage of the self-satisfied." C.E.T. Chairman Toure Bomoko (Appendix II)

Dune Messiah

  • "We are all here now. You've not told me what you'll do with the woman. It is my son who wishes to know." Farok to Scytale, before the latter shanks him with a poisoned needle
  • "There's time." Chani, moments before Death by Childbirth
  • "To begin, you might assign us all your CHOAM holdings. All." Scytale as he tries to bargain with the life of Paul's newborn twins, at which point Paul throws his crysknife into Scytale's eye
  • "Shall we summon servants with a cryological tank, preserve the flesh of your beloved — Master! Noooooo!..." Bijaz to Paul trying to bargain for Chani's ghola-resurrection, at which point he orders Duncan to ice him
  • "Now I am free." Paul, as he trudges out into the desert to die

Adaptations

Dune (1984)

  • "You think you have defeated me. You think I don't know... what I gained... for my wife." Wellington Yueh
  • "He was brought to us as is, my Lord Baron." Piter de Vries
  • "The water... for my life... for Paul...." Duke Leto Atreides
  • "May thy knife chip and shatter." Jamis
  • "There must be some mistake. I never requested your presence." Baron Vladimir Harkonnen
  • "Three generations... no..." Thufir Hawat
  • "You see your death. My blade will finish you." Feyd-Rautha Harkonnen

Dune (2021)

  • "Deliver my wife from her agony." Dr. Wellington Yueh, before Baron Harkonnen reunites him with his wife by killing him, as per the letter of his end of the bargain
  • "Here I am, here I remain." Leto, before he breathes poison gas onto the Baron
  • "I only serve one master. His name is Shai-Hulud!" Kynes, before attracting a sandworm to her position to swallow her along with three Sardaukar

Dune: Part Two

  • "What have you done?! She is pregnant!" Reverend Mother Ramallo
  • "You fought well, Atreides." Feyd-Rautha Harkonnen

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