[Fluff] official quotes/excerpts

[sythgore]

I need to do a 1 minute presentation tomarrow for my class(8th grade grammer and literature) and I was wondering if you could link me some nice warhammer 40k quotes and excerpts from stuff. anything is apreciated. and to keep this thread on topic just post cool warhammer 40k quotes

[Cailet]

Check the first one in my sig.

There is one about forgetting technology and peace, ending in a that bit about thirsting gods and stuff but I can't remember it properly.

[The Collector]

Try your rulebook.

[sythgore]

no rulebook. and yea ive been thinking of doing the one from the beggining of rogue trader

[Exetus]

To the common masses our struggle is a fight, a war. A battle fought with sinew and muscle, with bolt, blade and bomb, with tank and warship. To those of us in high station this is nought but a conflict of will! A struggle of metaphysic dimension. The Soul of Mankind is our battleground. The very existence of the human race is the prize for victory. Our sanity is the sacrifice we make to win that laurel.

Success is measured in blood; yours or your enemy's.

A Heretic may see the truth and seek redemption. he may be forgiven his past and will be absolved in death. A Traitor can never be forgiven. A Traitor will never find peace in this world or the next. There is nothing as wretched or as hated in all the world as a Traitor.

Some may question your right to destroy ten billion people. Those who understand realise that you have no right to let them live. -In Exterminatus Extremis-

A few of the ones I like from the 40k universe.

[FabianX]

"Don't ask why kill the Xeno, ask why not!!"

"You are not free whose liberty is won by the rigour of other, more righteous souls. You are merely protected. Your freedom is parasitic, you suck the honourable man dry and offer nothing in return. You who have enjoyed freedom, who have done nothing to earn it, your time has come. This time you will stand alone and fight for youselves. Now you will pay for your freedom in the currency of honest toil and human blood." Inquisitor Czevak

This is a good one for anyone who have ever served their country and had to put up with some idiot who just complains and offer nothing in return.

[The Collector]

"To be Unclean,
That is the Mark of the Xenos
To be Unpure,
That is the Mark of the Xenos
To be Abhorred,
That is the Mark of the Xenos
To be Reviled,
That is the Mark of the Xenos
To be Hunted,
That is the Mark of the Xenos
To be Purged,
That is the Mark of the Xenos
To be Cleansed,
That is the Fate of all Xenos"
-Extract from the Third Book of Indoctrination

[Kaoslord]

I love this one...

For each alien destroyed is a soul saved from eternal bondage. Each mortal alien life extinguised is a human soul raised to glory. Thus, our eternal destiny is writ in the blood of the alien.

With sword and spear destroy the alien... With cannon shot and gun blast, smash the alien... With lasers and searing plasma, scatter the alien to the stars <Raise your voice here for dramatic effect, it should keep building> With tooth and fist and hammer blow, with axe and shell and poison bomb and virus charge and thermal mine kill the alien. Kill them (You should be screaming now) Kill them... KILL THEM ALL....

(Unattributed, but it's on the Alien's page of the rulebook, pg 117, I think..)

There is a terrible darkness descending upon the galaxy, and we shall not see the end of it in our lifetime
-Inquisitor Czevak at the Conclave of Har.

Give me but a thousand men crazy enough to want to conquer hell, and we shall do it.
-Warmaster Solan.

Armageddon cannot be allowed to fall. That is all.
General Vladimir Keurov at Armageddon.

They shall be my finest warriors, these me who give themselves to me.
Like clay I shall mould them, and in the furnace of war shall I forge them.
They will be of Iron Will and Steely Muscle.
In great armor I shall clad them and with the mightiest guns shall they be armed.
They will be untouched by plague or disease, no sickness shall blight them.
They will have tactics, stratergies and machines such that no foe will best them in battle.
They are my Bulwark against the Terror.
They are the Defenders of Humanity.
They are my Space Marines.
And They Shall Know No Fear.

[Lord Anubis]

probably not WH related but here goes

Kill 1 man and you are a murderer.
Kill 1000 man and you are a conqueror
Kill all and you are a god.

[FabianX]

"They shall be pure of heart and strong of body, untainted by doubt and unsullied by self-aggrandisement. They will by bright stars in the firmament of battle, angels of death whose shining wings bring swift annihilation to the enemies of Man. So it shall be for a thousand times a thousand years, unto the very end of eternity and the extinction for mortal flesh." Roboute Guilliman

"Salvation lies in the blood of you enemy."

"The strong is strongest alone."

[BlindManBoots]

I dont know if I got this one right.

Dey gots de big shooty gunz, so your gunna need lotz of boyz fer when ya get up close. Becuz your not gunna have many left when ya get close enough to crump um.

Its an ork quote so dont delete for bad spelling.

[Kaoslord]

"Now, We'z all no dat da Boyz couldn't 'it da side ov a fighta-bommer Hanger. But We'z not fightin' Hangers, Iz we Boyz?"
-Anon Ork Warlord at Armageddon.

Only the insane prosper. Only those who prosper may truly decide what is Sane.

Bring me another plaything. This one seems to have broken. -Urien Rakrath, Dark Eldar Master Haemonculus

[Coey]

"Innocense Means Nothing" or something like that.

[Exetus]

Innocence PROVES nothing.

[aguaporf]

I can't write orkish english even if I understand it but here it goes (humanized):
"You see orks never lose,
If we're dead, we're dead so nobody cares,
If we win we've won,
If we run away we can always come back later
so orks never lose you see?"

[SGM_Azrael]

'When cities burn and armies turn and flee in disarry,
Cowards will cry tis best to fly and fight another day.
But warriors know it in thier marrow when they die and fall,
Tis better to have fought and lost than not have fought at all.'
- Verse from the Talamactra

'Repent! For tomorrow you die!' - DA battlecry

'An open mind is like a fortress with its walls unguarded and its gates wide open' - This is quoted wrongly by the Librarian in DOW.

'A moment of laxity spawns a lifetime of heresy.
Never forget, never forgive.'

"Give me a hundred Space Marines. Or failing that, give me a thousand other troops." - Rogal Dorn

'- With the bolter clean the unclean!
- With the flamer, purify the unholy!
- With the chainsword, purge the corupt!
- With the missile, kill the impure!'

more here:
http://www.geocities.com/roguetraderheresy/quotes.htm

'Do we bemoan such losses? No! We are the Fists! We do not need to hibernate or spit venom. We crush our enemies.' -
Teachings of Rhetoricus

'Damnation is eternal.
All souls cry out for salvation.
There is no salvation without suffering.'

More if you want 'em! (thats not a quote by the way) :D

[sythgore]

Those kick ass

[Imperial marine]

What i cannot crush with my hand i will crush with the tanks of the imperial guard
lord solar machirus
give me 100 space marines or failing that give me 1000 other troops
primarch of the imperial fists [who?]

[SGM_Azrael]

What i cannot crush with my hand i will crush with the tanks of the imperial guard
lord solar machirus
cannot crush with words i will crush...


give me 100 space marines or failing that give me 1000 other troops
primarch of the imperial fists [who?]
Rogal Dorn

[DDZ_Goldstrike]

"Ye thought!? Ye are are not paid to think!" - Admiral Rath in response to fleet captians suggestion of a fighting withdrawal.

[sythgore]

Dunno if this is to late to ask but SGM do you have anymore? Please?

[Ordo Normanus]

"We fight the long war, not through vain notions of duty or honour, but through a far purer purpose: hatred"
Ferrous Ironclaw

[metalfan666]

"I iz more cunning than a Grot an' more killy dan a dread" - GHAZGHKULL THRAKA

[Storm_wolf]

"Acknowledge death as it approches, but do not sccumb to its touch for your purpose is great…" - Blood Angels Chaplain Hainus

"A moment of laxity spawns a lifetime of heresy. Never forget! Never forgive!" - Dark Angels

"The warrior who acts out of honour cannot fail. His duty is honour itself. Even his death – if it is honourable – is a great reward and can be no failure, for it has come through duty. Seek honour as you act, therefore, and you will know no fear." – Grey Knights 183 Ritual of Devotion

[gladius]

There are those amongst our ordo who say that I seek advancement for my own purposes, and they are correct. My purpose is to destroy the daemonic and if I must rise to command an entire sector to do so, then so be it. I am a servant of the Emperor and only those who consort with Warp-spawn need to fear my ambition. - Inquisitor Lord Torquemada Coteaz

[BunnyPuncher]

Heh... and hopefully after dropping some of those quotes they don't rush the poor lad into the school psychiatrists office ;)

[SGM_Azrael]

Dunno if this is to late to ask but SGM do you have anymore? Please?My pleasure. :D

"The green tide of Orkdom is upon us and we are alone.
There can be no mercy.
No surrender.
If we survive this day it will be a miracle."

Commissar Yarrick at Armageddon

"The strong are strongest alone."

Tyrant of Badab

"Listen but closely brothers, for my life's breath is all but spent. There shall come a time far from now when our Chapter itself is dying, even as I am now dying, and our foes shall gather to destroy us. Then my children, I shall listen for your call in whatever realm of death holds me, and come I shall, no matter what the laws of life and death forbid. At the end I will be there. For the final battle. For the Wolftime."

Last words of Leman Russ
Primarch of the Space Wolves Chapter

Horus was weak, Horus was a fool.
He had the who galaxy in his grasp and he let it slip away.

Abaddon the Despoiler, Warmaster of Chaos

I am the Hammer.
I am the Sword in His hand.
I am the Point of His Spear.
I am the Gauntlet about His Fist.
I am the Bane of His Foes and the Woes of the Treacherous.
I am the End.

Battle Chant of the Grey Knights

The more I learn about these aliens, the more I come to understand what drives them, the more I hate them. I hate them for what they are and for what they may one day become. I hate them not because they hate us but because they are incapable of good, honest human hatred.

Inquisitor Angmar on the Tyranid Threat

You are expected at all times and in all situations to conduct yourself in a manner appropriate to, and mindful of, the great duties and traditions of the Emperor's Most Glorious and Honorable Navy.

Opening Line of the Imperial Navy Articles of War.

Like the great storm of the Horus Heresy, the forces of the True Gods will descend upon the Emperor's minions. The stars will tremble at their passage and the mighty armadas of the Warmaster Abaddon will bring annihilation to a hundred worlds. Know this, for these things will come to pass.

Constanze the Prophetess, burned as a Heretic 6875356.M38

"You primitives think you own the stars but you have no conception of what you are saying. You can barely command your own lumpen bodies, so how do you believe that you can subjugate entire worlds? "

Prince Morvael of the White Flame Corsairs

"A more ramshackle, inefficient, and downright ugly fleet is hard to imagine."

Admiral Sartus before the battle of Platea

"Onwards they came and we were ready. A tide of filth and heresy swept towards us but it could not pierce the adamantine shield of our purity and devotion. Our righteousness flung back the traitors, back into their Daemonhaunted fastness and from thence into the void where the Emperor's justice was served upon their craven souls."

Captain Palatine of the White Consuls

"We are less than cattle to these beings, cattle to be cast aside, consumed or made sport with for their pleasure. There is not one amongst them that would pay heed to a world of Man as I would an ant on my boot."

Inquisitor Kessel at the Conclave of Eidolon

"I will never forget what I saw at Obsidian Station. The bones of 5,000 brave men lay scattered about the winding corridors, Their blood was slick upon the floors and walls of the dormitories. Their innards were hung from control panels like grotesque decorations of some insane celebration. But not a single skull was found; all were taken as sick trophies."

Inquisitor Absolvus on the scene of a Dark Eldar raid


The strong will always enslave the weak. Where the strong make their own fate, the weak bow their heads and succumb. There are few who are strong and many are their enemies, and the greatest of those enemies is the False Emperor of Mankind. Destroy the followers of the False Emperor and revel in their cries for mercy-
their weakness can only be eradicated by their sacrifice to the gods of CHAOS.

Warmaster Horus

[SGM_Azrael]

Eldrad is the greatest among us. He is the sun which eclipses the light of our stars. He is Ulthwé and the fate of our kind rests in his hands. His eyes are the keenest, no detail goes unnoticed. Four thousand runes can he cast, guiding our path through torment and war, death and salvation. He is the pathfinder, the seeker, the true guide. Even your race has trembled before his might, though you may not have known it. It was he who guided us to the Ork known as Ghazghkull, and commanded us to steer his path to your world of Armageddon. Ten thousand Eldar lives would have been lost if he had not done so. What sacrifice is a million humans for such a cause?

He knows your affairs better than you do yourself. He warned that weakling seer you call Emperor of the treachery of Horus and the strife which would engulf us, just as it engulfed the rest of the galaxy, but your arrogance deafened you to his words. Your stupidity almost destroyed the galaxy, yet you never knew how close the forces of light were to our ultimate defeat. He saw the Great Devourer and warned our kin on Iyanden, even before they had neared our galaxy.

To him all futures are laid out, just as your crude implements of torture are laid out on the cold metal of that shelf. You say we are random and capricious, we say you are vulgar and idiotic. Some of you call us your enemies. All races are our enemy in time. Some of you call us your allies. You are not allies, any more than a butcher’s knife is his ally. You are tools, nothing more. To be used and expended to protect our race, that is your fate.

Your kind think you are so magnificent, yet even now, at the nadir of our power, we can manipulate you, turn you to our ends, as easily as you might pull a trigger and fire a gun. Our time will come again, Eldrad has promised us. Once more you upstart Mon-keigh [subject spits] shall kneel before our power! This time we will not be so lenient! We will exterminate you, every world, every vessel, every one of you! Eldrad has seen the stars stained red with your blood, and it pleases him!

You think us weak, but we will be your doom, children of Earth.

Last words of captured Eldar Ranger, executed.

I'm da hand of Gork and Mork, dey sent me to rouse up da boyz to crush and kill 'cos da boyz forgot what dere 'ere for. I woz one of da boyz till da godz smashed me in da 'ead an' I 'membered dat Orks is meant to conquer and make slaves of everyfing they don't kill. I'm da profit of da Waaagh an' whole worlds burn in my boot prints. On Armour-Geddem I led da boyz through da fire deserts and smashed da humies' metal cities to to scrap. I fought Yarik, old one-eye at Tarturus, an' he fought good but we smashed iz city too. I'm death to anyfing dat walks or crawls, where I go nothin' stands in my way. We crushed da stunties on Golgotha, an' we caught old one-eye when da speed freeks blew da humies' big tanks ta bits. I let 'im go 'cause good enemies iz 'ard to find, an Orks need enemies ta fight like they need meat ta eat an' grog ta drink. I iz more cunnin' than a grot an' more killy than a dread, da boyz dat follow me can't be beat. On Pissenah we jumped da marine-boyz an' our bosspoles was covered in da helmets we took from da dead 'uns. We burned dere port an' killed dere bosses an' left nothin' but ruins behind. I'm Warlord Ghazhkull Mag Uruk Thraka an' I speak wiv da word of da ods. We iz gonna stomp da 'ooniverse flat an' kill anyfind that fights back. We iz gonna do this coz' we're Orks an' we was made ta fight an' win!

Graffiti on Warlord Titan Wreckage found by Dark Angels at Westerisle, Piscina IV

[Vileblood]

one of my favs

"There is no such thing as innocence, only degrees of guilt"

inquistor in DOW

[Cailet]

What do you know of pain?
Our people have sung songs of lament since before your ancestor crawled out of the sea.

Look not upon the alien.
Listen not unto the alien.
Speak not unto the alien!

Can someone post up the one from Nuhadu Fireeart (I can't find my Codex at the monment) sythgore's teachers'll love that one.

[Zubetto]

This one is kinda similiar. Its taken from Codex: Witch Hunters.

"There is no such thing as a plea of innocence in my court.
A Plea of innocence is guilty of wasting my time. Guilty!"

Inquisitor Lord Fyodor Karamazov.

[Ardias]

I don't know if this one has been said but here goes.

'There is no arguing with the barrel of a gun'

[Bloodtalon]

Eldar: "The stars once lived and died at our command, yet still you seek to destroy us." (something like that anyway)

couple of excerpts from the superb Eisenhorn trilogy:

Medea Betancore: (behind controls of her gun-cutter attack ship.) "Imperial Inquisiton! Step away from the Inquisitor!"

Witch Hunter Tantalid: "Witch hunter! He is coming into custody with me!"

Medea: "never argue with a gun-cutter, you asshole!"

***

Inquisitor Eisenhorn: "The Emperor Protects."

Cherubael (deadly daemonhost): "The Emperor craps himself at the sound of my name."

***

[paraphrased]
Eisenhorn: "Gracious Emperor of Mankind, hallowed be your majesty, bright be your light everlasting, vouchsafe you servant in this hour of peril-"

Cherubael: "That won't save you."

Eisenhorn: "Bright be your light everlasting, vouchsafe you servant in this hour of peril, so that I may continue to serve you, great lord, and purify your dominion of-"

Cherubael: "It won't, Gregor. The benediction of Terra? It's just words, Gregor. Just words."

Eisenhorn: "Continue to serve you, great lord, and purify your dominion of man, casting out all daemons and changlings of warpcraft-"

Cherubael: "Shut up now, Gregor. Shut up so I can hear myself kill you."

***
[and one i made earlier...]

Pontius Glaw [a small globe containing the mans life essence, communicating via a technological stand.]: "How much longer, Gregor? How much longer do you think you can fight Chaos, face to face, blade to blade, before you become the very thing you are sworn to destroy?"

Eisenhorn: [knocking over the stand] "SILENCE!"

[Eisenhorn holds his staff rised dangerously over the globe for a moment, then turns and stalks out. Closes the door. the shaft of light on the Pontius globe slowly gets smaller.]

Pontius: "Ah, I see..."

"...not long..."

"...not long..."

SGM has come up with most of the good ones already, but basically anything involving Cherubael goes!

[Dante]

Dude ive tried using warhammer stuff for school projects and it never works for me.

"Oh good creativity but your ideas seem far fectched and off topic..."

infedel chaos english teacher...

Even though i think the warhammer lore/universe contains lots of good archytypes that can be used...

[Brother_Jonah]

Ogryn's - Blessed is the mind too small for doubt.

Better crippled in body than corrupted in mind.

[Ivan_R]

"Your honour is your life - let none dispute it" - Captain Navarre of the Black Templars.

[FabianX]

"Success is measured in blood: your or your enemies."

"Even a man who has nothing can still offer his life."

"Even a man who has nothing can still have faith."

"What is the terror of death?
That we die our work incomplete."

"What is the joy of life?
To die knowing our task is done."

[Toebot]

"As the emperor protects, so must we"

-Ibram Gaunt

[SGM_Azrael]

A little repair to a great suggestion...

Eldar: "The stars once lived and died at our command, yet still you seek to destroy us." (something like that anyway)
"The stars themselves once lived and died at our command, yet you still dare to oppose our will."

Bloodtalon inspired this momentous (sp?) memory..
Eisenhorn:"Cherubael?"
"Yessss?"
"Kill it"
[Cherubael proceeds to pull itself through Eisenhorn's staff and destroy a Warlord Titan].
Another...
Eisenhorn, talking about Cherubael:"It's not a he, it's an it!"

[Bloodtalon]

SGM,
thanks for the correction. lets face it, pretty much anything from Cherubael, and most anything from the Eisenohnr books, is pure concentrated style as a quote.
Lets have another shall we:

Eisenhorn: "What else has he seen?"

Ravenor: "A living blade, a man-machine, bestriding a long dead world and preparing to strike a blow that will spill human and eldar blood alike. After that...nothing."

Eisenhorn: "Nothing?"

Ravenor: "Nothing. That vision is the most distant thing he is now able to see. It's no more than six months from now. Beyond that, he has been unable to glimpse anything at all."

Eisenhorn: "Why?"

Ravenor: "Because there is no future left to see."

[yetanotherplayer]

"What a waste it is to lose one's mind, or as not having a mind as being very wasteful. How true that is."

Inquisito--

Wha??

oops.

-Vice President Danforth Quayle

[Athair]

"WAAAAAAAAAGH"
-Ork Battle Cry

"Orkses is never beaten in battle. If we win we win, if we die we die so it don't count as beat. If we runs for it we don't die neither, so we can always come back for anuvver go, see!"
-anon Ork

"He was an avalance from an unexpected quarter.
He was a thunderbolt from a clear sky."
-Commisar Yarrick on Ghazghkull Traka

Gotta love da Orks!

[CrimsonHellkite]

“You would think that these Necron are your slaves. You believe that you see everything, that your kind is of the Gods. But, you would not know that it was not you who controlled this galaxy ages ago, and it was not your kind that controls them now. Your kind is not of the divine. No, they're not even in alignment with the Orks or the Chaos. They're nothing. Simply fools who desired power, and thought that they could obtain it by stealing the souls, desires and will of a once proud but dying race. So, the truth is -- you can't see anything?”
—Leman Russ [?] before slaying a C'tan Deciever

[Dark Epsilon]

...cant really see leman russ saying anything that complicated...he whould probably just shout for the emperor while drinking a keg of beer and slashing with his sword around

[Aetherfox]

Argh... one of my favourite passages from the 2nd edition set of core books... something about an inquisitor who witnessed the eldar defense of a city against chaos. can't remember, the book is way way overseas now.anyone have a copy with them?

it went something along the lines of how the chaos horde was gathered in an unbroken force from horizon to horizon, and how the eldar will outmatched human will as the steel outmatches flesh, and how at last was revealed the great secret and what humans can never understand, the eldar avatar. but blah, that was something like 8 years ago.

[CrimsonHellkite]

Maybe it was the Emperor. I don't remember.

[Da_Humie]

SGM, that first quote of yours about the "better it is to fit and have lost, than to never have fought at all) was sweet.

"It is better to die for the Emperor than to live for yourself". Last I checked that was a dready quote. Bet he wasn't saying that when he was still alive.

"Hope is the first step on the road to despair". I forget who did that one, or even if it's right.

[Dante]

both of those are from the DoW game aren't they??

I think the librarian says, "hope is the first step on the road to despair"

I remeber laughing when i clicked on him to help my marines that were getting slaughtered and i was "hoping" he could help...then he died. :(

[Dark Epsilon]

"hope is the first step on the road to disapointment" :D

[Tartan_hero]

"Pain is temporary, Honour is forever"

-Ibram Gaunt

And my signature quotes are below.(last is personal scottish west coast slang.
My Fave)

[Robert Frazer]

I am astounded as to how no-one has seen fit to give one of the most harrowing and atmospheric transcripts of Warhammer 40,000 lore, the Prologue to the Dark Millenium, its due place. The sheer power it exudes is phenomenal - when I first read it, as a starry-eyed and innocent nine-year old, I was instantly bowled over... and here I am, nine years later, carrying the vindictive hammer of righteous retribution to chastise upstart Tau.

http://glorysblaze.org/robert_frazer/40kintro.JPG

To my mind, a copy of this should be provided with every rulebook and boxed set, and given on parchment to every novice to the game.


Whilst I am here, I shall provide some miscellaneous quotes omitted by others that I retrieved from perusing my second edition sourcebooks...

"An open mind is like a fortress with its gate unbarred and unguarded."
- Anon

"Claims of innocence mean nothing: they only serve to prove a foolish lack of caution"
- Judge Traggat, Selected Sayings, Vol. III Ch. IV

"When the people forget their duty they are no longer human and become something less than beasts. They have no place in the bosom of humanity nor in the heart of the Emperor. Let them die and be forgotten."
- From the Prime Edicts of the Holy Synod of the Adeptus Ministorum

"On the day of Affirmation it is the custom to light a candle, small and sweetly scented, and while it burns to silently think on those days so long ago. For a few minutes every year the whole universe of mankind falls silent and bends its mind to one purpose - billions upon billions of souls drawn together in the memory of the Great Confessor."
-"from Dolan Chirosius, in the Ministorum Libra Martyr

"No army is big enough to conquer the galaxy. But faith alone can overturn the universe."
-Ecclesiaarch Decias IX

"A man may die but yet endure if his work enters the greater work, for time is carried upon a current of forgotten deeds, and events of great moment are but the culmination of a single carefully placed thought. As all men must thank progenitors obscured by the past, so we must endure the present so that those who follow may continue the endeavour."
-The Chime of Eons, Technomagos Garba Mojaro

"The universe is not like a puzzle box that you can take apart and put back together again and so solve its secrets. It is a shifting, uncertain thing which chnages as you consider it, which is changed by the very act of observation. A powerful man is not a man who dissects the universe like a puzzle-box, examining it piece by piece and measuring each piece with scientific precision. A powerful man has only to look upon the universe to change it."
-Technomagos Gaelos

"An empty mind is like unto a freshly turned sod; if not sown with the seeds of love, duty and honour, the insidious weeds of heresy will take root."
-Prefect Xavier Lante, from his essay "Heresy and Faith: An Introspection

"Though the gates that stand between the mortal world and the immortal Realm of Chaos are now closed to me, still I would rather die having glimpsed eternity than never to have stirred from the cold furrow of mortal life. I embrace death without regret as I embraced life without fear."
-Kargos Bloodspitter, Champion of Khorne

"I don't have time to die - I'm too busy!"
-Reputed last words of High Lord Goge Vandire, 361st Master of the Administratum.

I'll provide more whenb I have some more free time (also a suggestion - perhaps this thread should be stickied, as the quotes in this thread are a major component of the game;s background?)

[Black Death]

I am not surrounded, merely in a target-rich enviroment

Orks never loses, cos if they is beaten they is dead so it dunt count as losing, see, and if they wins they wins, and if they runs away they can always come back for another go see.

You don't need to worry about genestealers, comrades! *last words of sergeant x*

[MaD_hAmiSh]

Lets see if i can remember this....
Give me 1000 men who are mad enough to try and i will conquer hell, or something along those lines.
Kill one man you are a murderer,
Kill ten men you are a monster,
Kill 100 men and you are a conquerer.
-Warhammer Fantasy Rulebook
If they put a ball and chain on your leg you can use it to smash someones head in.
-13th legion(book)

[Sir Guppy]

from inquisitor rulebook

A warp seer is a prophet who uses the time-distortion of the warp to foretell the future, in co-oridnation with the Emperor's tarot. They have an annoying habit of telling people when and how they are going to die.

[Medrevac]

Ugh, I just stumbled upon this rather distrubing quote. Didnt know DE were THAT nasty...

"I will never forget what I saw at Obsidian Station. The bones of 5,000 brave men lay scattered about the winding corridors, Their blood was slick upon the floors and walls of the dormitories. Their innards were hung from control panels like grotesque decorations of some insane celebration. But not a single skull was found; all were taken as sick trophies."

Inquisitor Absolvus on the scene of a Dark Eldar raid

[Kadaj]

welcome to the 40k universe :bandit:

[Koschei]

Exitus Acta Probat: the Outcome justifies the deed.
-Dictatus Vindicare

That which is unknown and unseen always commands the greatest fear.
-Dictatus Culexus

No world shall be beyond my rule;
no enemy shall be beyond my wrath.
-The Emperor

I know you may find the Tyranids physically repellent to look at, but believe me, you don't want to let them out of your sight.
-Technomagus of the Adeptus Mechanicus.

Though my guards may sleep and ships may rest at anchor,
Our foes know full well big guns never tire.
-Lufgt Huron, the Tyrant of Badab

"For seventeen long centuries have I remained in this blade, confined within these metal walls. During all of my imprisonment you are the first I have seen who is worthy to bear me into battle. Come, take my hilt, and I will serve you in the manner of my kind, drawing the blood of your enemies, protecting you in the midst of the fight, bringing yous afe home again. Now draw me form the scabbard and test the fitness of my balance. See how easily I swing, how my keen edge cleaves the air. A good choice, am I not?"
"Willingly you pick me up. Your first mistake. Willingly you drew me. Your second mistake. I do not allow my servants to make three mistakes, foolish mortal..."
-Daemon blade

It is well that they are known as the Water caste.
One might as well try to nail the sea to the wall as pin them down with a strait answer. They flow around your words untill they wear you down, like the trickle of water, that over time, will split the rock.
-Rogue trader, on Tau negotiator

We are less than cattle to these beings, cattle to be cast aside, consumed or made sport with for their pleasure. There is not one amongst them that would pay heed to a world of Man as I would to an ant on my boot.
-Inquisitor Kessel, on The C'tan

And two of my favorites:

Fear me, for I am your apocalypse.
-Dictatus Eversor

Death stands above me, whispering low
I know not what in my ear
Of his strange language all I know
There is only pain and fear.

[spacewolflord]

Can you post your report and the grade you got on it. I would like to see a report that would need the gradness of these holy bit of knowleage.

[Scoote]

If this thread is dead, sorry, but this Song just cracked me up. I can imagion the orks singig it.


Ere we go, ere we go, ere we go.
Ere we go, ere we go, cross the Kosmos.
Ere we go, ere we go, ere we go.
Ere we go, ere we go, tbroo infinity.
Ere we go, ere we go, ere we go.
Don't know where we're goin' til we get there.

Orkish space chant,
intoned when hitching onto space hulks

[Faenaris]

And, the most known Orc saying:

Let's stomp some 'umies !

- Third War for Armaggedon

[Brother Lucius]

"DAKKA DAKKA DAKKA!"

Something Orks scream when shooting a gun.

"WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH"

Ork Battlecry

[Da_Humie]

Though silver in your palm weighs light
compared to death by blast and sword,
do not shy from the hopeless fight,
for endeavor is it's own reward


Our thoughts light the darkness that others may cross space
We are joined with the Emperor, our souls are joined in his will
Praise the Emperor who's sacrifice is life as ours is death
Hail his name, the master of humanity.

[PKuono]

"If ya wanna be big an' mean.
If ya wanna be best an' green
If ya wanna get da job done fast.
Da Vulcha skwad iz where it's at!"
Lift off chant of the Vulcha skwad

[Kaoslord]

When Cities Burn and Armies Turn
To Flee in Disarray
Cowards Cry Tis Best To Fly
And Fight Another Day.

But True Heros Know In Their Bones
When They Die and Fall
Tis Best to Have Fought and Lost
Than Not Have Fought At All.

-Anon

We do not fight for your Emperor, Space Marine. We Fight against Horus.
-Anon Eldar Farseer during the Heresy

[Imperial marine]

direct from the tau codex
They got ded big shooty guns dat'll kill tons of boyz, but if yer can get near em den you've got a chance. Just gotta make sure you bring tons of boyz, coz you ain't gonna have a whole lot left when you get close enouth ta crump em.

[chocolate]

Its been said before but...


Da red onez go fasta!
and...
Da red onez die fasta!

Contemplation is the womb of treachery

A logical argument must be dismissed with absolute convicitons!

[NathrakH]

"Mankind stands upon the brink; on the one hand lies a realm of unimaginable power, on the other awaits darkness, death and utter damnation. Only those that follow the guiding light of the Emperor may save their soulds"
-Inquisitor Damarn. Ordo Malleus


"The strength of the Emperor is Humanity. And the strength of Humanit is the Emperor. If one turns from the other we shall all become the lost and the Damned"
- The Sermons of Sebastian Thor. Vol. XXVII, CH LXII


"There is less than one Space Marine for each world of the Imperium. Nevertheless thay are number enough for the task at hand."
-Anon