Quotes About Arthurian Legend

#1. Ever since I was a kid, I've always been fascinated by the Arthurian Legend, and, you know, the notion of nobility in battle and the - the notion of chivalry.

Matt Frewer

#2. But every time we read a new version of the Arthurian legend, we must compare, contrast, and recreate our image of the characters: each new version is, in a sense, metafiction

Ann F. Howey

#3. I read H.P. Lovecraft. I also like Sword and Sorcery stuff, Arthurian legend.

Bruce Boxleitner

#4. Growing up in England, I was constantly surrounded by the Arthurian legend.

Jamie Campbell Bower

#5. At least Morgan is honest! Artor thought as he forced his tired lips to smile. She refuses to eat at my table because she is my enemy. How many of my guests pretend?

M.K. Hume

#6. Stories require faith, not facts.

T.A. Barron

#7. He felt in his heart cruelty and cowardice, the things which made him brave and kind.

T.H. White

#8. Arthur, their young king, like a hero out of legend.

Marion Zimmer Bradley

#9. Stop, Morgian. Your wiles cannot avail you now.' He turned to the High King and said, 'The hurt this woman has done me, I readily forgive. It is for the harm that she has caused others that she is to be judged.

Stephen R. Lawhead

#10. Giving her a slow, coaxing smile that turned the heat in the room up by a thousand degrees, he stroked her lips with the balls of his thumbs as he murmured, "Can we get back to talking about possibly inviting that werewolf for sex?

Thea Harrison

#11. Blanchefleur felt a quick rush of affection for her. When the world frowned, Branwen went on smiling. There was a heart of steel under all that froth and bubble.

Suzannah Rowntree

#12. Your music hurts, the way sunshine hurts when you've existed for a long time in darkness.

Thea Harrison

#13. Oh, Perceval, a falcon is born to hunt, and so are you. One day you will hunt indeed--but not yet."
"Why? Am I not ready?"
She looked at him sadly and said, "Give me a little longer.

Suzannah Rowntree

#14. And so, perhaps, the truth winds somewhere between the road to Glastonbury, Isle of the Priests, and the road to Avalon, lost forever in the mists of the Summer Sea.

Marion Zimmer Bradley

#15. It is one thing to have the gift of seeing the spirits and hearing the Gods who move about us as we come and go; but it is a gift of darkness as well as light.

Mary Stewart

#16. There was carpet under Blanchefleur's feet and the scent of clean and delicate things in her nostrils - perfume, babies, soap, and tea. Homesickness hit her like a clenched fist; this was worse than memory.

Suzannah Rowntree

#17. That night she dreamed about the King again.
She stood in a riverside meadow between greenwood and castle. Overhead the sun shone gilt in a sky like powdered lapis and struck golden sparks from the King's blood-red dragon banner.

Suzannah Rowntree

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

Mary Stewart

#19. Listen
strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government. Supreme executive power derives from a mandate from the masses, not from some farcical aquatic ceremony.

Michael Palin

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

Anne Eliot Crompton

#21. No, don't draw away from me. Whatever else I am, I am your son - your most wretched son. If you do not hate me, try to love me a little, Father; it is lonely never to have been loved, only devoured.

Rosemary Sutcliff

#22. I have neither talent or taste for kingship, cousin. I am a warrior, and to dwell always in one place and live at court would weary me to death!

Marion Zimmer Bradley

#23. You hate him worse than me, you viper,' he whispered as the stimulant cleared his brain.
'Aye, lord, but here's the oddity of it - I love him too.' Morgan replied, her eyes void of all emotion.

M.K. Hume

#24. Look out your window on a morning in spring, ten or twenty years hence, and perhaps you'll see me coming.

Suzannah Rowntree

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

Mary Stewart

#26. How you must hate Logres," she said in a dry mouth.
"Hate Logres?" He leaned back in his chair, shaking his head. "There is an anger that is deserved, Blanche. Tell me. Look me in the eye, if you can, and tell me - to my face - that Logres is without sin.

Suzannah Rowntree

#27. I am like a ruined piece of parchment scrawled over and over again with your name, so many times it has become illegible.

Elizabeth Wein

#28. A priestess of Avalon does not lie. But I am cast out of Avalon, and for this, and unless it is all to be for nothing, I must lie, and lie well and quickly

Marion Zimmer Bradley

#29. I go by Ambrosius, Wild Man of the Woods, and Son of the Devil. Call me what you want, but I am Merlin." - Merlin

Ben Zackheim

#30. I did not do it for you, sire." Gawain was deadly serious now. "Death comes to us and all mortals. I shall still lose you one day. But Logres! The only perfection under heaven would fall if I could not save you.

Suzannah Rowntree