King Arthur Quotes

“Oh, dear, oh, dear, I wish I had never seen that filthy sword at all.”

“I was never your father nor of your blood, but I wote well ye are of an higher blood than I wend ye were.”

″‘Plenty of people have told me you are not my father,’ said the Wart, ‘but it does not matter a bit.‘”

“Power is of the individual mind, but the mind’s power is not enough. Power of the body decides everything in the end, and only Might is Right.”

“But inside himself he was proud of the Wart for staying out after a hawk, and prouder still to see that he had got it.”

“Why can’t you harness Might so that it works for Right?… The Might is there, in the bad half of people, and you can’t neglect it.”

“Arthur was happy. Like the man in Eden before the fall, he was enjoying his innocence and fortune.”

“I ought to have thought of the people who had no armour.”

“I hereby pledge myself to the service of God and of my people, to the righting of wrongs, to the driving-out of evil, to the bringing of peace and plenty to my land...”

“And Arthur, more and more bewildered, put his hand to the hilt and drew forth the sword as if out of a well-greased scabbard.”

″‘Now,’ said Sir Ector, kneeling before Arthur and bowing his head in reverence, ‘I understand that you and none other are the true-born King of this land.‘”

“Now you are in my power, to slay or spare as I will! And I will kill you forewith, unless you kneel and yield to me, confessing yourself to be a knight of little worth.”

“Death is welcome when it comes; but to yield- never!”

“Arthur! We will have Arthur! By God’s will he is our King! God save King Arthur!”

″‘My brother Kay must have a sword,’ he thought, as he rode slowly back. ‘It will be a shame and a matter for unkind jests if so young a knight comes to the jousts without a sword. But where can I find him one? I know! I saw one sticking in an anvil in the churchyard, I’ll fetch that: it’s doing no good there!‘”