Baron Harkonnen Quotes

Never obliterate a man unthinkingly, the way an entire fief might do it through some due process of law. Always do it for an overriding purpose - and know your purpose! ~ Frank Herbert

I'm frank, brutally frank. And even when I'm not frank, I look frank. ~ Roy Thomson, 1st Baron Thomson Of Fleet

I am proud of the fact that the U.K. is an open trading country. I welcome inward investment such as that of Nissan, and the takeover of struggling British companies by foreign companies who turn them around, as in the case of Jaguar Land Rover. I also accept that job losses sometimes have to occur to restore failing companies to health. ~ David Sainsbury, Baron Sainsbury Of Turville

You're gonna be a freaking appendage in their lives. They'll have a mother and an appendage. ~ Michael Baron

We should not say how's business, but where is business ~ Thomas Dewar, 1st Baron Dewar

A prudent consideration for Number One. ~ Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

Vanity calculates but poorly on the vanity of others; what a virtue we should distil from frailty, what a world of pain we should save our brethren, if we would suffer our own weakness to be the measure of theirs. ~ Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

The culminating point of administration is to know well how much power, great or small, we ought to use in all circumstances. ~ Baron De Montesquieu

Each citizen contributes to the revenues of the State a portion of his property in order that his tenure of the rest may be secure. ~ Baron De Montesquieu

If aught be worse than failure from overstress of a life's prime purpose, it is to sit down content with a little success. ~ Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

How amazing that the language of a few thousand savages living on a fog-encrusted island in the North Sea should become the language of the world. ~ Norman St John-Stevas, Baron St John Of Fawsley

... now the Loyal Order of Lions is no more. Every member of it has been crossed out. Well - except, I suppose, for you.' - The Baron, to Sophie ~ Katherine Woodfine

The little boy leaned against his father's chest and slowly nodded. "Yes," he said. "I heard all of the
names, but I don't remember the other two ... just the man who hurt Gillian."
"That's the name I most want," Brodick said softly. "Who is he, Alec?"
"Alec, please," Gillian began.
"Tell me, Alec. Who is he?"
"Baron," Alec whispered. "His name is Baron. ~ Julie Garwood

There are many things in life more worthwhile than money. One is to be brought up in this our England which is still the envy of less happy lands. ~ Alfred Denning, Baron Denning

Dean 'Ruckus' Cole was a different kind of asshole to Baron 'Vicious' Spencer. He fucked you over with a polite smile on his face. In that sense, he was the Joker. In his mix of confidence, cockiness, good looks, and money, there was a dash of insanity thrown in. Enough to let you know that he meant every word he said. ~ L.J. Shen

Genius is but fine observation strengthened by fixity of purpose. ~ Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

No task is more difficult than systematic hypocrisy. ~ Edward George, Baron George

You may fail to shine in the opinion of others, both in our conversation and actions, from being superior, as well as inferior to them. ~ Greville Janner, Baron Janner Of Braunstone

Give a child the habit of sacredly regarding the truth
of carefully respecting the property of others
of scrupulously abstaining from all acts of improvidence which can involve him in distress, and he will just as likely think of rushing into the element in which he cannot breathe, as of lying or cheating or stealing. ~ Henry Brougham, 1st Baron Brougham And Vaux

He who prides himself on giving what he thinks the public wants is often creating a fictitious demand for low standards which he will then satisfy. ~ John Reith, 1st Baron Reith

To the thinker, the most trifling external object often suggests ideas, which, like Homer's chain, extend, link after link, from earth to heaven. ~ Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

Great commanders write their actions with simplicity; because they receive more glory from facts than from words. ~ Baron De Montesquieu

The Baron was good with two things: sex, and death. And what was sex anyway - what was orgasm but what the French (those cunning linguists of the language of love) referred to as a Little Death? What was life but a ticking clock toward the grave, and how did life start but with an unfettered hump toward morning? ~ Daniel Younger

Come, Death, and snatch me from disgrace. ~ Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

… Fourier's great mathematical poem ...

{Referring to Joseph Fourier's mathematical theory of the conduction of heat, one of the precursors to thermodynamics.} ~ William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin

Hume develops his arguments by a series of models. He doesn't call them models in the pretentious way in which we envelope, very often, pure banalities in this jargon ~ Lionel Robbins, Baron Robbins

At the end of the day, if there are truly ethical considerations, those have to override scientific considerations. ~ David Sainsbury, Baron Sainsbury Of Turville

I will always take on a new challenge. I believe in jumping off the ship every now and then. If you don't, you won't really learn how to swim ~ Alec Broers, Baron Broers

What did I want?
I wanted a Roc's egg. I wanted a harem loaded with lovely odalisques less than the dust beneath my chariot wheels, the rust that never stained my sword,. I wanted raw red gold in nuggets the size of your fist and feed that lousy claim jumper to the huskies! I wanted to get u feeling brisk and go out and break some lances, then pick a like wench for my droit du seigneur--I wanted to stand up to the Baron and dare him to touch my wench! I wanted to hear the purple water chuckling against the skin of the Nancy Lee in the cool of the morning watch and not another sound, nor any movement save the slow tilting of the wings of the albatross that had been pacing us the last thousand miles.
I wanted the hurtling moons of Barsoom. I wanted Storisende and Poictesme, and Holmes shaking me awake to tell me, "The game's afoot!" I wanted to float down the Mississippi on a raft and elude a mob in company with the Duke of Bilgewater and the Lost Dauphin.
I wanted Prestor John, and Excalibur held by a moon-white arm out of a silent lake. I wanted to sail with Ulysses and with Tros of Samothrace and eat the lotus in a land that seemed always afternoon. I wanted the feeling of romance and the sense of wonder I had known as a kid. I wanted the world to be what they had promised me it was going to be--instead of the tawdry, lousy, fouled-up mess it is. ~ Robert A. Heinlein

A man can buy nothing in the market with gentility. ~ William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley

If the human mind naturally produces noisome weeds, it also produces flowers and fruit; and ... the best method to mend the soil in general, is for each of us to cultivate his own particular spot. ~ Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke

Nothing so good as a university education, nor worse than a university without its education. ~ Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

To seek in the great accumulation of the already-said the text that resembles 'in advance' a later text, to ransack history in order to rediscover the play of anticipations or echoes, to go right back to the first seeds or to go forward to the last traces, to reveal in a work its fidelity to tradition or its irreducible uniqueness, to raise or lower its stock of originality, to say that the Port -Royal grammarians invented nothing, or to discover that Cuvier had more predecessors than one thought, these are harmless enough amusements for historians who refuse to grow up. ~ Michel Foucault

At court one becomes a sort of human ant eater, and learns to catch one's prey by one's tongue. ~ Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

Knowledge humanizes mankind, and reason inclines to mildness; but prejudices eradicate every tender disposition. ~ Baron De Montesquieu

Piter: Ah-ah, Baron! Is it not regrettable you were unable to devise this delicious scheme by yourself?
Baron: Someday I will have you strangled, Piter.
Piter: Of a certainty, Baron. Enfin! But a kind act is never lost, eh?
Baron: Have you been chewing verite or semuta, Piter? ~ Frank Herbert

Your reality, Sir, is lies and balderdash and I'm delighted to say that I have no grasp of it whatsoever! ~ Baron Munchhausen

Men who get on well with women are usually those who know how to get on without them. ~ Benjamin Mancroft, 3rd Baron Mancroft

It would indeed be a tragedy if the history of the human race proved to be nothing more than the story of an ape playing with a box of matches on a petrol dump. ~ David Ormsby-Gore, 5th Baron Harlech