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The Quotable Roleplayer


Kevin Owens

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Ok, so you're at a real good point in your role play and you need a good rallying phrase or battle cry. That's the purpose of this list. To give you a palethora of sayings for any situation.

 

 

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

 

"Stars were once lit and extinguished by at our command, and you still dare to defy us?"

 

'Do not ask which creature screams in the night,

Do not ask who waits for you in the shadow,

It is my voice you hear in the night,

and it is my body that lurks in the shadow,

for I am Tzeentch, and you are the puppet,

that dances to my tune..'

 

"A dagger in the dark is worth a thousand swords at dawn"

 

"Excuses are the refuge for the weak."

"We are not your worst nightmare... we are your every nightmare".

 

 

"Who is to judge what is right and what is wrong? Great and powerful foes surround us; unknown miscreants gnaw at us from within. We are threatened with total annihilation. In days such as these we can afford no luxury of morality."

 

In Times of war there can be no room for fear or hope. You can only accept the fact that you are already dead, That is the only way to act like a true soldier should. Without Remorse and without Mercy.

 

Heresy is like a tree, its roots lie in the darkness whilst its leaves wave in the sun and to those who suspect nought, it has an attractive and pleasing appearance. Truly, you can prune away its branches, or even cut the tree to the ground, but it will grow up again ever the stronger and ever more comely. Yet all awhile the root grows thick and black, gnawing at the bitter soil, drawing its nourishment from the darkness, and growing even greater and more deeply entrenched. Such is the nature of heresy, and this is why it is so hard to destroy, for it must be eradicated leaf, branch, trunk and root. It must be exorcised utterly or it will return all the stronger, time and time again, until it is too great to destroy. Then we are doomed.

 

We are at war with forces too terrible to comprehend. We cannot afford mercy for any of its victims too weak to take the correct course. Mercy destroys us; it weakens us and saps our resolve. Put aside all such thoughts. They are not worthy of Inquisitors in the service of Our Emperor. Praise his name for in our resolve we only reflect his purpose of will.

 

You are not free whose liberty is won by the rigour of other, more righteous souls. Your 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 yourselves. Now you will pay for your freedom in the currency of honest toil and human blood."

 

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

 

In an Imperium of a million worlds, what is the death of one world in the cause of purity?

 

You must face the truth squarely and without flinching from duty. Our Enemies are mortal no longer. Mercy for such as they is a chimera, self-deception is its only ally. Dedicate this weapon, given unto your hand at the behest of the Emperor, to their destruction. Regard its function as your only duty: you live only to bring cleansing fire. Take up your rod and staff, your armour and psycannon, and go forth.

 

The creatures of the Warp have but one trait with which you need concern yourself - their undying contempt for the Emperor. It is your task to quell the rebellion they preach, and the only sure way is to destroy them utterly.

 

The nature of Chaos is deceit - unless one looks past surface impressions, one can never hope to divine the purpose of the enemy.

 

They have only one purpose and there is nothing they will not do to accomplish this, no matter how vile or loathsome it might be. These abominations mean to destroy everything proud and noble, everything we hold dear and have fought so long to achieve.

 

Know thine enemy. You are known to him already.

 

Once you tell us what we need we can dispose of you and all this will end. Until then, we own you and will do with you as we see fit. You are an object now. You are a receptacle for knowledge that we will wring out of you. That process will be easier if you co-operate. You ceased to be a human being when you betrayed your species and your Emperor, the only way out for you is death. I can make it quick but those who come after me will not be so generous.

 

You get more with a kind word and an excruciator than just a kind word.

 

A single man of faith can triumph over a legion of the faithless. Untold billions of the faithful can never be opposed.

 

No Army is big enough to conquer the galaxy. But faith alone can overturn the universe.

 

Diligence earns salvation.

 

Know the enemy not and the battle cannot be won. Know the enemy too much and the battle will be doubly lost.

 

Every man is expected to work his fingers to the bone to accomplish the task in hand. And if that proves insufficient, he shall work them to the marrow!

 

A man's flight is in itself sufficient reason for the presumption of his guilt. And by shortening your life, I am saving you from committing more sins and thus receiving even greater punishment. But... if you are innocent, accept your fate with resignation... and thank me for rewarding you with a martyr's crown.

 

What is the strongest weapon of mankind? The god-machines of the Adeptus Mechanics? No! The Astartes Legions? No! The tank? The lasgun? The fist? No to all! Courage, and courage alone stands above them all!

 

I have a reputation, Modile, a reputation as a fair, honest man who treats his soldiers well and supports them in the face of darkness. Potentially, that reputation makes me soft. It seems I understand failure and forgive it. Some, like Kowle, believe me to be a weak commissar, not prepared to take the action my rank demands. Not prepared to enforce field discipline where I see it failing. I am an Imperial commissar. I will enflame the weak, support the wavering, guide the lost. I will be all things to all men who need me. But I will also punish without hesitation the weak, the incompetent, and the treasonous.

 

If the road is easy, the destination is worthless.

 

Our end is come. But what an end! We have been given the most precious gift: a chance to roar our defiance into the foes that overwhelms us with their numbers. Let the Emperor himself hear our final battle cry! Forward warriors of the Guard, and die like the heroes that you are!

 

Competence on the battle field is a myth. The side which screws up next to last wins, it's as simple as that.

 

If your battle plan's working, it's probably a trap.

 

Why not arm the friends and have them win us a few bloody worlds between the verses?!

 

Do not underestimate the Squats. They survived for millenia cut off from the Imperium and assailed from all sides. Their determination and resilience is an example to all.

 

The man that at one time whose exploits were told in all the corners of the galaxy, the same man who saved my life countless times and I was proud to call my brother is now pounding at our gates and screaming about making the galaxy burn. Well, I tell you my brothers and sisters, we'll give him and my other traitorous brothers a battle they won't forget! We will not step back! We will suffer cowards and traitors of their ilk no more! We will make it so that that after we've obliterated their first waves, their reinforcements will have to land on mountains of their own dead troops!

 

Give me a hundred Space Marines; or failing that, a thousand other troops.

 

To admit defeat is to blaspheme against the Emperor.

 

Victory does not always rest with the big guns: but, if we rest in front of them, we shall be lost.

 

While vile mutants still draw breath, there can be no peace. While obscene heretics' hearts still beat, there can be no respite. While faithless traitors still live, there can be no forgiveness.

 

Do not ask, 'Why kill the alien?' Rather ask, 'Why not?'

 

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

 

Forget your past life. From this day on you are simply a Dark Angel - nothing else is of consequence. The Chapter is all that matters.

 

I am the hammer, I am the right hand of my Emperor, the instrument of His will, the gauntlet about His fist, the tip of His spear, the edge of His sword...

 

Brothers! For vengeance! For purity! In hatred be strong, in valour be sure!, In vengeance be foremost!, In suffering! In glory!

 

Though my guards may sleep and ships may rest at anchor, our foes know full well that big guns never tire

 

Why did I not have you killed? For your presence here and the act you are about to commit proves the truth of everything I have ever said or done. Death is nothing compared to vindication.

 

War is cruelty. There is no use trying to reform it. The crueler it is the sooner it's over.

 

This is our galaxy. Ours to corrupt. Ours to enslave. The gods will not be denied of their prize.

 

Da red wunz go fasta.

 

'Ere we go, 'ere we go, 'ere we go, 'ere we go, through the cosmos.

'Ere we go, 'ere we go, 'ere we go, 'ere we go, through infinity.

'Ere we go, 'ere we go, 'ere we go, don't know where till we get there.

 

Orkses is never defeated in battle. If we win we win, if we die we die so it don't count as defeat. If we runs for it we don't die neither, so we can always cum back for anuvver go, see!

 

Shooty Deff from da Sky

 

All Orks is equal, but some Orks are more equal dan others.

 

The best means of defense is attack, an' the best means of attack is a really really big one, right, with lots of boys an' dead big shooty things and what have ya.

 

The Orks are the pinnacle of creation. For them, the great struggle is won. They have evolved a society which knows no stress or angst. Who are we to judge them? We Eldar who have failed, or the Humans, on the road to ruin in their turn. And why? Because we sought answers to questions that an Ork wouldn't even bother to ask! We see a culture that is strong and despise it as crude.

 

The mind of the Farseer is utterly inhuman in its depth and complexity. Without mercy or moral feeling his consciousness stands upon the edge of spiritual destruction. That he does not fall must be the result of constraints and balances which only an Eldar could understand. To a mere human it is yet another reminder that we are but children compared to that ancient and powerful race.

 

A good soldier obeys without question. A good officer commands without doubt.

 

A man can remake the world if he has a dream and no facts to cloud his mind.

 

Anyone who will not fight by your side is an enemy you must crush.

 

Camouflage is the colour of fear.

 

Faith is the sturdiest armour. Hatred the surest weapon.

 

Faith without deeds is worthless.

 

For a warrior the only crime is cowardice.

 

For those who seek perfection there can be no rest this side of the grave.

 

Hope is the first step on the road to disappointment.

 

If a job's worth doing, it's worth dying for.

 

If you want peace, prepare for war.

 

In the grim darkness of the far future there is only war.

 

Inspiration grows from the barrel of a gun.

 

It causes me constant pain. I would not have it any other way, for it serves as a remainder against complacency.

 

Knowledge is power, hide it well.

 

It is better to die for the Emperor than to live for yourself.

 

Only in death does duty end.

 

Only the awkward question; only the foolish ask twice.

 

Pain is an illusion of the senses, despair is an illusion of the mind.

 

Sometimes the good must perish so that the rest survive.

 

The ends always justify the means.

 

The Known is but a shadow of the Knowable.

 

The rewards of tolerance are treachery and betrayal.

 

There is nothing to fear but failure.

 

Tolerance is a sign of weakness

 

Victory needs no explanation, defeat allows none.

 

We are Last Chancers. If in doubt, shoot it.

 

We ask only to serve.

 

What can a man know of the Universe that knows not his own mind.

 

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.

 

What is your fate? My duty is my fate.

 

An open mind is like a fortress with it's gates unbarrred and ungaurded

 

A small mind is a tidy mind

 

I have at my command an entire battle group of the Imperial Guard. Fifty regiments, including specialized drop troops, stealthers, mechanized formations, armored companies, combat engineers and mobile artillery. Over half a million fighting men and thirty thousand tanks and artillery pieces are mine to command. Emperor show mercy to the fool that stands against me, for I shall not.

 

Fetch me another plaything, this one seems to have broken.

 

A battle won is a battle which we will not acknowledge to be lost.

 

Am I a dog, that you come to me with sticks? - Goliath speaking to David

 

"The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing"

- Edmund Burke (1729-1797), British statesman and philosopher

 

"Veni, vidi, vici."

(I came, I saw, I conquered)

- Julius Caesar, Roman emperor (100BC-44BC)

 

"Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few."

- Prime Minister Winston Churchill

 

Come on you sons of lady doggies! Do you want to live forever?"

Gunnery Sergeant Dan Daly, 4 june 1918.

 

“Blood is just red sweat.” -Enson Inoue

 

A fight is not won by one punch or kick. Either learn to endure or hire a bodyguard.” -Bruce Lee

 

“You must not fight too often with one enemy, or you will teach him all your art of war.” - Napoleon Bonaparte

 

“To fight and conquer in all your battles is not supreme excellence; supreme excellence consists in breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting.” - Sun Tzu

 

If fighting is sure to result in victory, then you must fight, even though the ruler forbid it; if fighting will not result is victory, then you must not fight, even at the ruler's bidding.” - Sun Tzu quotes

 

“I have had to fight like ###### and fighting like ###### has made me what I am.” - John Arbuthnot Fisher

 

In fighting there are no light blows; in cursing, no gentle words. - Anonymous

 

Keep up your bright swords, for the dew will rust them. - William Shakespeare

 

The first to strike will gain the upper hand. - Anonymous

 

Were it my cue to fight, I should have known it without a prompter. - William Shakespeare

 

Fighting is like champagne. It goes to the heads of cowards as quickly as of heroes. Any fool can be brave on a battlefield when it's be brave or else be killed. - Margaret Mitchell

 

There is some good in this world, and it's worth fighting for. - J R R Tolkien

 

To gain a crown by fighting is great, to reject it divine. - Johann Friedrich Von Schiller

 

Rule 1, on page 1 of the book of war, is: 'Do not march on Moscow'... (Rule 2) is: 'Do not go fighting with your land armies in China.' - Viscount Montgomery Of Alamein

 

Don't fight a battle if you don't gain anything by winning. - Erwin Rommel

 

The problem with sports and war is that God is on everyone's side. - Duane Alan Hahn

 

It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog. - Mark Twain

 

You cannot love a thing without wanting to fight for it. - Gilbert Keith Chesterton

 

Let him that is without stone among you cast the first thing he can lay his hands on. - Robert Frost

 

I realize this is a bit disordered. I'll get around to arranging it later.

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I'm always thinking one step ahead. Like a carpenter, who makes stairs.

 

"Sir!! We are surrounded !"

"Excellent !! We can attack in any direction"

 

"Never interrupt your enemy while he's making a mistake."

 

"Friends come and go, but enemies accumulate."

 

"Hey,out of all of you,who wants to go to the hospital first?"

 

"Memento mori."

 

"Truth hates delay."

 

"He beat me to the puch,literally."

 

"Missed me,now you've got to kiss me...nevermind."

 

"Give me a place to stand on and I will move the earth."

 

"It seems even death can't change cool dudes(filtered,is just opposite of smart,5 letters.)"=>we should use this against Hak.:lol:

 

"Speak up before these blades become both ends of the conversation."

 

"So many targets,so little time."

 

"An eagle's old age is worth a sparrow's youth."

 

"If we keep meeting like this,people might start to talk."

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40K has some of the best lines I've seen in any game.

 

"One cannot consider the fate of a single man, nor ten, nor a hundred, nor a thousand. Billions will die here, and we have not the luxury to count the cost."

 

"We've played you, little man. We've pulled your strings. We've brought you here and watched you dance."

 

 

~D

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They shall be my finest warriors, these men who give themselves to me. Like clay I shall mould them, and in the furnace of war forge them. They will be on iron will and steely muscle. In great armour shall I clad them and with the mightiest guns will they be armed. They will be untouched by plague or disease, no sickness will blight them. They will have tactics, strategies and machines such that no foe can 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.

 

 

~D

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This one is the best:

 

"After the orbital strikes, Thunderhawk bombardments, Whirlwinds, Vindicators, fusion and starfire and finally Battle Brothers with flamers had finished cleansing the world of all the enemies of Man, we built a monastery in the center of the largest, most radioactive impact crater. We named the planet "Tranquility", for it was very quiet now. "

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