Arthur Merlin Quotes

#1. In Merlin, Arthur has a very loyal friend who keeps him on his toes. Arthur enjoys those challenges, and there is a lot of great banter between them. Meanwhile, in Arthur, Merlin has a friend he can really rely on. Merlin knows that when it comes the crunch, Arthur will always do the right thing.

Bradley James

#2. He holds the sword!' shouted Merlin. 'And that has not changed. Whoever would be king must first take the sword from Arthur's hand. For I tell you truly, none among you will be king without it!

Stephen R. Lawhead

#3. I'm a lunatic wandering around for scraps.

Daniel Handler

#4. The Lady smiled, close-mouthed. "You magicked for Arthur himself, Merlin. The Human part of you has always loved Arthur.

Anne Eliot Crompton

#5. Thinking and planning is one side of life; doing is another. A man cannot be
doing all the time.

Mary Stewart

#6. Wizards? Do you mean they do things a different way?"
"No, just the way we do,"Merlin replied.With a flick of his finger he lit the soggy heap of kindling that Arthur had gathered ( ... ) A blaze leapt up on the instant. Merlin then opened his hands and produced some food out of thin air.

Deepak Chopra

#7. Any master skill in practice is about comprehending myriad elements and fitting them together in inspired ways that satisfy the objective.

Marian Deegan

#8. It was Arthur's welcome alone, I believe, which turned the tide of misery for Merlin.

Stephen R. Lawhead

#9. I don't deserve a soul, yet I still have one. I know because it hurts.

Douglas Coupland

#10. When I die, never say that I am gone. The sun sets. The moon fades. My body perishes. But my leaving has nothing to do with being gone. I will stay forever with you.

David Paul Kirkpatrick

#11. In romance, as in life, you only learn when you're losing.

Garrison Keillor

#12. We don't let them die, in Wales
Merlin, and Arthur and Owain
we keep them close by and asleep in the hills to be awakended if ever we need them.

Susanna Kearsley

#13. Used every man according to his capacity.

Mary Stewart

#14. And do you know another thing, Arthur? Life is too bitter already, without territories and wars and noble feuds.

T.H. White

#15. He [Merlin] is slightly from another world and place, so it's about having fun and presenting it in a new way. He's more of a politician, and slightly Machiavellian, but there's also a lovely relationship going on between Merlin and Arthur. There's so much to be had, really.

Joseph Fiennes

#16. [Restraints on the press] in all ages, have debauched morals, depressed liberty, shackled religion, supported despotism, and deluged the scaffold with blood.

James Madison

#17. I'd love it if doors open for me in America. There are directors I'd love to work with there. I'll always do theater, but I've got to pay the mortgage.

Lesley Manville

#18. The essence of wisdom is to know when to be doing, and when it's useless even to try

Mary Stewart

#19. Spend time pondering not what you see," Merlin advised Arthur, "but why you see it.

Deepak Chopra

#20. All that winter's day and far into the night the kings twisted and squirmed, but Merlin held them in his iron grasp and would not let go. He became first a rock, and then a mountain in Arthur's defence. Arthur stood equally unmoved. No power on earth could have prevailed against them ...

Stephen R. Lawhead

#21. Only a child expects life to be just; it's a man's part to stand by the consequences of his deeds.

Mary Stewart

#22. Sure, sometimes guys pass you up in salary, and maybe it's a lesser player, but it's all based on what a team has as far as value in that person.

Brett Favre

#23. Moving [to the White House], whatever stresses would be on my husband and me, we could handle; we are grown-ups. But it wouldn't be until the day that my kids came home and said to me, "I like it here," that I'd feel like I could breathe and know that we're all going to be okay here.

Michelle Obama

#24. The gods do not visit you to remind you what you know already.

Mary Stewart

#25. It's a stage name," said Arthur, impatiently. "Like Madonna."
"No, Madonna's actual name is Madonna," pointed out Merlin.
"Oh my God, stop flaunting your Big Gay Knowledge Of Pop,

FayJay

#26. Response is what we have trained ourselves to be; it is a reflection of our manhood, character, ideals. We cannot always control our surface reactions, but we can sit at the helm of our lives and control our responses to the blows of life.

Wilferd Peterson

#27. Sometimes it is hard to explain why you find a person beautiful.

Chetan Bhagat

#28. The devil sought to destroy me and discredit my testimony. But God wanted me where I would testify to others about his saving power.

Shirley Corder

#29. Imagine that this communication sometimes lends a sense of the uncanny to the landscape because of the narcissism of our human gaze, but that it is just part of the natural world here.

Jeff VanderMeer

#30. [Arthur]
"Er ... Just how much did you have to drink?"
Merlin frowned at Arthur ... Both of him.

FayJay

#31. Merlin, if you don't stop whining, I'm going to take Gwen's sword and beat you to death with it," said Arthur, evenly.
"It's plastic."
"So it will take me a long time. I'm still game.

FayJay

#32. Words are containers for power

Joyce Meyer

#33. Merlin seeks assistance from Pigwiggen, the only one of Arthur's knights who is also a fairy, and they unite their enchantments to move the British Court to Turkestan. Lively end to Act One.

Davies Robertson

#34. Youth is a predominant factor. We are seeing a young King Arthur, and thereby a young-ish - as I'm into my 40s - Merlin. It was about how to tackle it, from that point view.

Joseph Fiennes

#35. Nothing is impossible to a valiant heart.

Henry IV Of France

#36. [Arthur to Merlin]
I'm the Prince of Wales, and you're Welsh. I can do whatever I bloody well like to you.

FayJay

#37. Every man carries the seed of his own death, and you will not be more than a man. You will have everything; you cannot have more ...

Mary Stewart

#38. This is beyond understanding." said the king. "You are the wisest man alive. You know what is preparing. Why do you not make a plan to save yourself?"
And Merlin said quietly, "Because I am wise. In the combat between wisdom and feeling, wisdom never wins.

John Steinbeck

#39. It is not any common earth,
Water or wood or air,
But Merlin's Isle of Gramarye
That you and I will fare.

Rudyard Kipling