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"you realise I'm going to have to hurt you" -Rogal Dorn

"I realise you're going to try" -Custodan Guard

From tales of heresy, "Blood games".

"Hope is the first step on the road to disappointment." Tons of good qoutes in DoW really

I personally love Warboss Grimskull from Warhammer 40k: Space Marine.

"WAAAGH! You got new friends now, space marine!"
-Grimskull, on newly summoned Daemons
"...I ain't that easy ta kill."
-Grimskull

Also, from the IG Codex:
"Medic! Quit whining, Brook, you've got another damned leg!"
-Colonel Straken

tedurur wrote:
"Hope is the first step on the road to disappointment." Tons of good qoutes in DoW really

Some of the best - like that one - predate it significantly.

"An open mind is like a fortress with its gate unbarred and unguarded" is another recycled one.

COWARDS DIE IN SHAME when you want to confirm wether you want to exit the game or not

Heed my words for I am the Herald and we are the footsteps of doom. Interlopers, do we name you. Defilers of our sacred earth. We have awoken to your primitive species and will not tolerate your presence. Ours is the way of logic, of cold hard reason; your irrationality, your human disease has no place in the necrontyr. Flesh is weak. Surrender to the machine incarnate. Surrender and die.

Ankh, the Architect, the Herald of Dismary, Arch-Cryptek of Damnos - 973.M41.

 Bobthehero wrote:
COWARDS DIE IN SHAME when you want to confirm wether you want to exit the game or not

That one got to me everytime. Hilarious.
Dawn of War 1 and 2 are true goldmines of great quotes. Especially from Chaos:

"It is as if a thousand mouths cry out in pain!"
"Do you hear the voices too?"
"Sanity is for the weak!"
"My reign will turn the heavens themselves CRIMSON!!!"
"Blooood for the Blood God! Let the universe drooown in it!!!"
"So much blood... Too much to drink!"

And the Plague Marine in DoW 2 especially:
"We are maggots on the corpse of man!"
"I am a boil on the face of reality, and i fester!"
"May Grandfather Nurgle gift a thousand plagues upon you."
"My flesh runs like pus!"

Also, this one is from Mark of Chaos, but just too brilliant to ignore:
"Their widows will weep like fresh sores!"

The clearly insane Lord Commissar in DoW 2 however is the absolute champion of 40k quotes:
"Follow my example or I will make you into one!"
"Drive me closer! I want to hit them with my sword!"
"You die on my command! Not before!"
"Your wounds mean Nothing! Stand!"
"More guts! More glory!"
"It bears no bloodstains! I am insulted."
"Chaos Lord! You are mine!!!"
"Let their god feel this!" - while charging Eldar Avatar with a powerfist.
"I'll charge their Battlefortress! It'll make magnificent wreckage!!!"

I have another one that I like

"To the darkness I bring fire. To the ignorant I bring faith. Those who welcome these gifts may live, but I will visit naught but death on those who refuse them."- Chaplain Grimaldus

"I was there, the day Horus slew the Emperor."

Horus Rising

"Try again, Bragg." - Ghostmaker.

 Furyou Miko wrote:
"Try again, Bragg." - Ghostmaker.

Ah nooo...the feels...

“The difference between gods and daemons largely depends upon where one is standing at the time” - Lorgar

 Spyro_Killer wrote:
"Horus"-Rogal Dorn, was just such an incredible scene where he saw the wrongness in his brother

What book is this from?

 Torus wrote:

 Furyou Miko wrote:
"Try again, Bragg." - Ghostmaker.

Ah nooo...the feels...

Wrong quote. You're thinking of;

"Try again, Bragg." - Lijah Cuu, Guns of Tanith.

Mine was said by Corbec.

Scarey Nerd wrote:
Heed my words for I am the Herald and we are the footsteps of doom. Interlopers, do we name you. Defilers of our sacred earth. We have awoken to your primitive species and will not tolerate your presence. Ours is the way of logic, of cold hard reason; your irrationality, your human disease has no place in the necrontyr. Flesh is weak. Surrender to the machine incarnate. Surrender and die.

What was really good was what followed: "surrender and die? Surely it meant surrender or die?" "No sir the translation was extremely clear"

Have to say the recently paperbacked WAAAGH! Ghazghkull book are favorites of mine in an instant

"Don't send a Speed Freak to do a Dread Mob's job" -the big gaz himself

"Orks are never beaten in battle... we can always come back for annuver go..." -common ork belief and quote

"many friendly fire incidents were not accidental, but the deliberate results of overly frustrated rivals" -flavor text

"A swarm of mechanised locusts sweeping over the land, stripping it bare of resources, bringing death and destruction to anything that stands in its path. Emperor preserve us against the predations of these so-called orkish cults of speed" -imperial cardinal at the conclave of hessen

"Half-glimpsed shadows? Orks wearing camouflage? Do you take us for imbeciles? orks are barbaric and entirely single-minded. Army doctrine, which has served us well for ten thousand years, teaches us this. Orks come on in a great horde, the do not slink and sneak in the shade."- Extract from court martial

"I'd check those readings again, We've got a clear field of vision with no sign of greenskins - not even through the magnoculars. Wait... There was a green flash. No, that can't be possible! How did they get there? so many..." -Last transmission from observation bunker 216

This Angron quote to Guilliman:

""What would you know of struggle, Perfect Son? When have you fought against the mutilation of your mind? When have you had to do anything more than tally compliances and polish your armour?" [...] "The people of your world named you Great One. The people of mine called me Slave. Which one of us landed on a paradise of civilization to be raised by a foster father, Roboute? Which one of us was given armies to lead after training in the halls of the Macraggian high-riders? Which one of us inherited a strong, cultured kingdom? And which one of us had to rise up against a kingdom with nothing but a horde of starving slaves? Which one of us was a child enslaved on a world of monsters, with his brain cut up by carving knives? Listen to your blue-clad wretches yelling of courage and honour, courage and honour, courage and honour. Do you even know the meaning of those words? Courage is fighting the kingdom which enslaves you, no matter that their armies outnumber yours by ten-thousand to one. You know nothing of courage. Honour is resisting a tyrant when all others suckle and grow fat on the hypocrisy he feeds them. You know nothing of honour."

I used to have this one in my sig:

"Follow up a victory by striking quickly, and you will win another." -Tau Commander Puretide

Dunno if it's the quote word for word but I got this from TVTropes, it's apparently from Rynn's world:

From DoW2, a quote from Gabe Angelos that I've used for my sig for a long time:

It is human nature to seek culpability in a time of tragedy. It is a sign of strength to cry out against fate, rather than to bow one's head and succumb.

StarHunter25 wrote:
Pedro Kantor: "You've lost an arm, Alessio! By the mercy of the Emperor, you're lucky not losing your life as well!"
Alessio Cortez: "I haven't lost my arm, brother! It's right over there! I'm still in this! I'm fine!"

It took way too long to fine this.

From the First Heretic:

"I always hated you, Xaphan."

 MechaEmperor7000 wrote:
Dunno if it's the quote word for word but I got this from TVTropes, it's apparently from Rynn's world:

Spoiler:

"You did well to bring them this far....It is time that someone carried you now." - Pedro Kantor to an unknown refugee mother.

I've read that book. Lovely scene.


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'Those who claim to walk in the light have no right to do so until they have mastered the darkness within themselves.'

-Corax

Something along the lines of
"Fly to the last drop of fuel!
Fire to the last round of ammunition!
Fight to the last drop of blood!"
-Thunderbolt squadron leader

Also
"Enemy aircraft approching bearing 283,
Please watch for falling shrapnel"
-Hydra tank commander

"Forward ! Forward ! For in our deaths lies victory !"
An anonymous Krieg captain, Vraks.

Know this Blood Angel. Your final mission was a failure. Your brothers are dead. We will wear their armor in the battle against the false Emperor. And know this, Champion of the IX Legion. Twice now the sons of the Night Haunter has seen you slain. Greet the afterlife within the warp knowing you were too weak to triumph over us, even once.

...

Your bones will be made into trophies for our armor. We will feed upon your gene seed. And whatever remains of your glorious walking tomb will be salvaged by our tech-priests to house a champion of our own Legion.

Die ... With the eternal taste of failure on your tongue.

- Talos, Soul Hunter

Cptn_Cronssant wrote:

Scarey Nerd wrote:
Heed my words for I am the Herald and we are the footsteps of doom. Interlopers, do we name you. Defilers of our sacred earth. We have awoken to your primitive species and will not tolerate your presence. Ours is the way of logic, of cold hard reason; your irrationality, your human disease has no place in the necrontyr. Flesh is weak. Surrender to the machine incarnate. Surrender and die.

What was really good was what followed: "surrender and die? Surely it meant surrender or die?" "No sir the translation was extremely clear"

Actually, that's a similar quote from earlier in the book.

Fall of Damnos, p27 wrote:We are the necrontyr. We are legion. We claim dominion of this world... Surrender and die.
'Throne of Earth,' Adanar could only rasp. He found his composure again after a few more seconds. 'Surely, it means surrender or die?'
Karnak uttered a sombre reply. 'No, Lieutenant Sonne, the translation is accurate.'

Dragon_Cultist wrote:
Something along the lines of
"Fly to the last drop of fuel!
Fire to the last round of ammunition!
Fight to the last drop of blood!"
-Thunderbolt squadron leader

Also
"Enemy aircraft approching bearing 283,
Please watch for falling shrapnel"
-Hydra tank commander

Is this from Double Eagle? That was a great book, either way.

Considering what and who he is, i really liked this one from Curze:

'Throne! What are you doing here?' demanded Dorn, his normal, affable tone swallowed in the depths of his outrage. A phalanx of gold-armoured warriors followed their lord and Curze had immediately sensed the tension in the air.
'Punishing the guilty,' he had answered coolly. 'Restoring order.'

The personal journal of Lieutenant Taan Darrickof the Cadian 88th Mechanised Infantry offered a much briefer summation:

'I hate this planet.'