Top 47 Camelot's Quotes
#1. Call it Camelot's revenge: the class of court scribes who made it their profession to uphold a make-believe version of America free of conflict and ruled by noble men helped Nixon get away with it for so long - because, after all, America was ruled by noble men.
Rick Perlstein
#2. There's always hope when it's a question of whether we should love.
Kathryn Rose
#3. Elizabeth Bachinsky, Darren Bifford, Jason Camelot, Rachel Cyr, Tara Flanagan, Lilly Fiorentino, John Goldbach, David McGimpsey, Evan Munday, Sachiko Murakami, Ian Orti, Marisa Grizenko, Christina Palassio, Mike Spry, Darren Wershler.
Jon Paul Fiorentino
#4. Bridgeport?" Said I.
"Camelot," Said he.
Mark Twain
#5. On either side the river lie
Long fields of barley and of rye,
That clothe the wold and meet the sky;
And through the field the road runs by
To many-towered Camelot.
Alfred Tennyson
#6. The days of pioneering, of lassies in sunbonnets, and bears killed with axes in piney clearings, are deader now than Camelot; and a rebellious girl is the spirit of that bewildered empire called the American Middlewest.
Sinclair Lewis
#7. To expect and dread a thing for a lifetime; does not prepare you for the thing itself.
Mary Stewart
#8. I swear I will never trust Edward again. This is not kingly, this is not as Arthur of Camelot. This is behaviour as base as an archer's bastard and I cannot meet his eyes when I see him stuffing his mouth at King Louis' table and pocketing the gold forks.
Philippa Gregory
#9. 1978 when she decided to contact Clinton. That's when events took a turn for the worse. As Christopher Andersen writes in American Evita: Juanita checked into Little Rock's Camelot
Victor Thorn
#10. Ah Gawaine, Gawaine, ye have betrayed me; for never shall my court be amended by you, but ye will never be sorry for me as I am for you
Thomas Malory
#11. There she weaves by night and day, A magic web with colors gay. She has heard a whisper say, A curse is on her if she stay, To look down to Camelot. She knows not what the curse may be, And so she weaveth steadily, And little other care hath she, The Lady of Shalott.
Alfred Lord Tennyson
#12. There will be great presidents again but there will never be another Camelot.
Jackie Kennedy
#13. Oxford in the Inklings' day was not so different in look and smell from the Oxford of today. Then, as now, one was tempted to fantasize one's surroundings as a Camelot of intellectual knight-errantry or an Eden of serene contemplation. Then, as now, there was bound to be disappointment.
Philip Zaleski
#14. Television should be our Lyceum, our Chautauqua, our Minsky's and our Camelot.
E.B. White
#15. We forgave, followed and accepted because we liked the way he looked. And he had a pretty wife. Camelot was fun, even for the peasants, as long as it was televised to their huts.
Joe McGinniss
#16. Only reapers, reaping early In among the bearded barley, Hear a song that echoes cheerly From the river winding clearly, Down to towered Camelot.
Alfred Lord Tennyson
#17. Camelot, located nowhere in particular, can be anywhere.
Norris J. Lacy
#18. Waiting for one's execution is worse than dying. To seek my beheading is glory. Who went to his execution willingly? Jesus did. Jesus even dragged his cross half way to Golgotha. I think he would have nailed himself to the cross if he had to.
Stefan Emunds
#19. There's a great deal of love for one another on this club. Perhaps we're living in Camelot.
Jerry Kramer
#20. Don't let it be forgot, that once there was a spot, for one brief shining moment, that was known as Camelot.
Alan Jay Lerner
#21. And just for the record, I think he needed to be a little more assertive with the woman he loved. That's why he lost her to Lancelot, you know. Lack of assertiveness. A man needs to be ready to lay down his life for the woman he loves. But first he's got to let her know that she's adored.
Janice Hanna
#22. The winter is forbidden till December, And exits March the second on the dot. By order summer lingers through September In Camelot.
Alan Jay Lerner
#25. Of course, history is only a muddle of facts and a fuddle of professors, and anyone who thinks it is one clear voice saying "Arise, sir Knight" deserves a life sentence in Camelot.
Wilfrid Sheed
#26. Jay wondered how they'd feel the morning they all woke up and realized that somehow Camelot had turned into Mordor.
George R R Martin
#27. Honor is a balancing act and only the heart can strike that balance.
Stefan Emunds
#28. When Caroline Kennedy endorsed Barack Obama in 2008 as her father's rightful heir, she laid upon him the mantle of Camelot and the enduring mystique of John F. Kennedy, who, according to polls, continues to be America's most beloved president.
Kitty Kelley
#29. I don't claim to be some Aaron Sorkin expert, but it is like a Camelot. His shows are a place where people are trying to reach their highest potential. And I think we miss that sometimes. If I got a chance to do 'The Newsroom,' I would have done it yesterday.
Dule Hill
#30. The mothers in my neighborhood were screamers and yellers, silent fuming carpet-raking speed cleaners or detached unkempt anticleaners, all-day-luncheon martini drinkers, chain smokers prostrate on the couch with bookcases filled with accounts of JFK and Camelot.
Laurie Lindeen
#31. From what I've read, everyone has a claim on Merlin. Was he Scottish, Welsh, English or even French? All these countries have got a big claim on him and Camelot. That's why the Arthurian legends are so popular - because they are such good stories.
Colin Morgan
#32. And there was no Camelot now -- now that no Queen was there, all white and gold, under an oaktree with another sunlight sifting itself in silence on her glory through the dark leaves above her where she sat, smiling at what she feared, and fearing least what most there was to fear.
Edwin Arlington Robinson
#33. The world is an ambitious business. It continuously expands and evolves. But people are lazy and God is far too lovely to do something about it.
Stefan Emunds
#34. Unless we change our ways and our direction, our greatness as a nation will soon be a footnote in the history books, a distant memory of an offshore island, lost in the mist of time like Camelot, remembered kindly for its noble past.
Margaret Thatcher
#35. At least I'm the one leaving. It's so much easier to leave than to be left.
Stefan Emunds
#37. That's really why I wanted to do it. I wanted to be a part of this generation's telling of Camelot, and also get the chance to play a fantastic, complex, interesting, emotionally passionate, young lead role.
Tamsin Egerton
#38. I've been on sets where I broke my ankle on a television show doing a stunt playing Arthur in 'Camelot.' That was because it was really rushed, and it hadn't been thought through properly.
Jamie Campbell Bower
#39. See that day as I remember it. A day in June, River Severn rolling to the sea, diamonded with sunlight, gulls gliding over the quays on a mild breeze that lifted the Red Dragon standard over Camelot. A quiet enough day for the end of my world.
Parke Godwin
#40. And yet knowing all these mistakes were yours, beautifully yours, and you came out the better for it... the boy I left behind well on his way to becoming an extraordinary man and an extraordinary king." Merlin smiled. "If only from your choice of princess alone.
Soman Chainani
#41. 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
#42. I definitely love 'Camelot.' It's my favorite show. I'm a big 'True Blood' fan. I love 'American Idol,' and I love my girl J-Lo. The rest are my homework shows: 'Forensic Files,' 'Dr. G. Medical Examiner,' 'The First 48.'
Tamala Jones
#44. King Arthur and his armored goons of the Round Table functioned as the Politburo of a slave state: Camelot. Of all who have written on the Matter of Arthur, from Malory to White, only Mark Twain understood this. But Mark Twain was a great writer.
Edward Abbey
#45. I've always regarded it as a test of character to dislike the Kennedys. I don't really respect anyone who falls for Camelot.
Christopher Hitchens
#46. Wake up! You're a sacred soul and glory is yours for the taking.
Stefan Emunds
#47. The Fugitive"
Thanks be to God the world is wide,
And I am going far from home,
For I forgot in Camelot
The man I loved in Rome,
And I forgot in Kensington
The man I loved in Kew;
And there must be a place for me
To think no more of you.
Edna St. Vincent Millay
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