Malory Quotes

#1. The words I speak to these chairs
must be silencing.
It has stunned them
into a profound emptiness.
No creaking from the gallery
no James Joyce here, nor Malory
An unknown author
in a very large chain
can't you hear me rattling?

B.J. Ward

#2. In that formless place, he found himself intensely grateful for Ronan and Adam waiting outside for him, for Blue and her family, for Noah and for Malory. He was so grateful to have found all of them, finally.

Maggie Stiefvater

#3. What is a friend if not someone you feel close to, someone you like being with, someone you can confide in and share pleasure with.
-Jeremy Malory-

Johanna Lindsey

#4. I can read Middle English stories, Geoffrey Chaucer or Sir Thomas Malory, but once I start moving in the direction of contemporary fantasy, my mind begins to take over.

David Eddings

#5. Malory! You've got a chipmunk on your pussy!

Tamara Thorne

#6. I want to lose all harshness of jagged nerves, to be above all gentle. I feel we have achieved victory for that almost more than anything-to be able to cultivate gentleness.
George Malory to his wife Ruth at the end of the Great War

Wade Davis

#7. Blue told him as she set a mug down in front of Malory. "That one doesn't have any hallucinogenic effects, but you might experience some euphoria." Gansey said, "Nothing I have ever drank here has ever made me experience anything close to euphoria.

Maggie Stiefvater

#8. I've always considered them ideas, forever recorded." Malone motioned to one of the paperbacks. "Malory wrote King Arthur in the late part of the 15th century. So you're reading his thoughts from five hundred years ago. We'll never know Malory, but we know his imagination.

Steve Berry

#9. 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

#10. There is hope for a man who has never read Malory or Boswell or Tristam Shandy or Shakespeare's Sonnets: but what can you do with a man who says he "has read" them, meaning he has read them once, and thinks that this settles the matter?

C.S. Lewis

#11. (Malory, unhopeful: "I don't suppose you have any tea?" Jesse: "DO YOU WANT EARL GREY OR DARJEELING?" Malory: "Oh, sweet heavens!")

Maggie Stiefvater

#12. Pigmy Pouters', Malory replied. 'Feisty ones!' Gansey mouthed Blue at Adam. Adam let out a little wail of helpless laughter.

Maggie Stiefvater

#13. King Pellinore that time followed the questing beast.

Thomas Malory

#14. It is not the outside of people that bothers me, but the inside.

Maggie Stiefvater

#15. The very purpose of a knight is to fight on behalf of a lady.

Thomas Malory

#16. They both laughed and drank to each other; they had never tasted sweeter liquor in all their lives. And in that moment they fell so deeply in love that their hearts would never be divided. So the destiny of Tristram and Isolde was ordained.

Thomas Malory

#17. This beast went to the well and drank, and the noise was in the beast's belly like unto the questing of thirty couple hounds, but all the while the beast drank there was no noise in the beast's belly.

Thomas Malory

#18. We shall now seek that which we shall not find

Thomas Malory

#19. 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

#20. Nowadays men cannot love seven night but they must have all their desires: that love may not endure by reason; for where they be soon accorded and hasty, heat soon it cooleth. Right so fareth love nowadays, soon hot soon cold: this is no stability. But the old love was not so.

Thomas Malory

#21. For as well as I have loved thee heretofore, mine heart will not serve now to see thee; for through thee and me is the flower of kings and knights destroyed.

Thomas Malory

#22. And much more am I sorrier for my good knights' loss than for the loss of my fair queen; for queens I might have enough, but such a fellowship of good knights shall never be together in no company.

Thomas Malory

#23. Through this same man and me hath all this war been wrought, and the death of the most noblest knights of the world; for through our love that we have loved together is my most noble lord slain.

Thomas Malory

#24. Yet some men say in many parts of England that King Arthur is not dead, but had by the will of our Lord Jesu into another place; and men say that he shall come again, and he shall win the holy cross.

Thomas Malory

#25. In the midst of the lake Arthur was ware of an arm clothed in white samite, that held a fair sword in that hand.

Thomas Malory

#26. And there encountered with him all at once Sir Bors, Sir Ector, and Sir Lionel, and they three smote him at once with their spears, and with force of themselves they smote Sir Lancelot's horse reverse to the earth. And by misfortune Sir Bors smote Sir Lancelot through the shield into the side ...

Thomas Malory

#27. She still craved the fantasy while reality was busy sinking in its sharp teeth.

Belle Malory

#28. In some darkened corner, an evil troll named Karma was rolling on the floor laughing, hysterically.

Belle Malory

#29. for it is better that we slay a coward, than through a coward all we to be slain.

Thomas Malory

#30. With that truncheon thou hast slain a good knight, and now it sticketh in thy body.

Thomas Malory

#31. Are airplanes always like that? So full of people?

Maggie Stiefvater

#32. It befell in the days of Uther Pendragon, when he was king of all England, and so reigned, that there was a mighty duke in Cornwall that held war against him long time. And the duke was called the duke of Tintagil.

Thomas Malory

#33. For, as I suppose, no man in this world hath lived better than I have done, to achieve that I have done.

Thomas Malory

#34. Whoso pulleth out this sword of this stone and anvil is rightwise king born of all England.

Thomas Malory

#35. What... is the wind in that door?

Thomas Malory

#36. For love that time was not as love is nowadays.

Thomas Malory

#37. Wit thou well that I will not live long after thy days.

Thomas Malory

#38. The sweetness of love is short-lived, but the pain endures.

Thomas Malory

#39. I shall bere your noble fame, for ye spake a grete worde and fulfilled it worshipfully.

Thomas Malory

#40. From the outside looking in, everything looked completely ordinary. The problem was being on the inside, looking out.

Belle Malory

#41. Always Sir Arthur lost so much blood that it was a marvel he stood on his feet, but he was so full of knighthood that knightly he endured the pain.

Thomas Malory

#42. What, nephew, said the king, is the wind in that door?

Thomas Malory

#43. The joy of love is too short, and the sorrow thereof, and what cometh thereof, dureth over long.

Thomas Malory

#44. Enough Is as Good as a feast.

Thomas Malory

#45. The month of May was come, when every lusty heart beginneth to blossom, and to bring forth fruit.

Thomas Malory