Piter De Vries Quotes in Dune (1984)

Piter De Vries: It is by will alone I set my mind in motion. It is by the juice of Sapho that thoughts acquire speed, the lips acquire stains, stains become a warning. It is by will alone I set my mind in motion.

Piter De Vries: As you instructed me, I have enlightened your nephews concerning my plan...

Baron Harkonnen: *My* plan!

Piter De Vries: ...*the* plan... to crush the Atreides.

Baron Harkonnen: What does Leto say, Piter?

Piter De Vries: Vendetta, he says, using the ancient tongue. The art of kanly is still alive in the Universe. He does not wish to meet or speak with you.

Baron Harkonnen: I made my peace gesture. The forms of kanly have been obeyed!

Baron Harkonnen: You wish to join your wife, is that it, traitor?

Dr. Wellington Yueh: She lives?

Baron Harkonnen: You wish to join her? So, join her!

Piter De Vries: [stabs Yueh in the back]

Dr. Wellington Yueh: You think you have won? You think I don't know what I gained for my wife?

[dies]

Baron Harkonnen: Take him away.

Piter De Vries: I knew Yueh's wife. I was the one who broke his Imperial conditioning. I've thought of many pleasures with you. It is perhaps better that you die in the innards of a worm. Desire clouds my reason. That is not good. That is bad.

Piter De Vries: I imagined many pleasures with you. It is better perhaps that you die in the innards of a Worm.