Top 61 Quotes About Lancelot
#1. A sculpture of marriage, marriage come alive. Lancelot
Lauren Groff
#2. She rode at the head of a shining line of black limos like the head raven in a convocation of black birds. Her husband had moved people, and, in so moving, had become their Lancelot Satterwhite, too. Something of him lived in them, was not hers, was now theirs.
Lauren Groff
#3. Fairy damsels met in forest wide / By knights of Logres, or of Lyones, / Lancelot or Pelleas, or Pellenore.
John Milton
#4. This is true valor, I hope you know. Legends have sprung from less. All Lancelot did was paddle about in a balmy lake." She smiled. "Lancelot was a knight. You're a viscount. The bar is higher.
Tessa Dare
#5. I had broken three Saxon shield-walls and buried Hywelbane to her hilt in my country's enemies before I had been elected to Mithras's service, but all Lancelot had ever done was boast and posture.
Bernard Cornwell
#6. 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
#7. How condescending, how splendidly democratic of Sir Lancelot, to laugh, as if he were an ordinary man! Perhaps he eats and drinks as well, or even sleeps at night.
T.H. White
#8. 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
#9. Easy there, Lancelot," Adrian said. "I don't think bowing is required when she's in jeans and bunny slippers.
Anonymous
#10. The miracle was that he had been allowed to do a miracle. And ever, says Mallory, Sir Lancelot wept, as he had been a child that had been beaten.
T.H. White
#11. Sir Lancelot increased in fame and worship above all men, for he overthrew all comers, and never was unhorsed or worsted, save by treason and enchantment.
James Knowles
#12. Then it is better, sir, to love whom one cannot have?"
"Probably better," Lancelot said. "Certainly safer.
John Steinbeck
#13. I always thought of him in terms of a duck, you know? Lancelot Satterwhite is to adoration as a duck is to water. He only wanted to be swimming around in a great pool of it, but it never soaked in to touch him, just always rolled off." "Sounds
Lauren Groff
#14. Do you want to be saved?" I asked.
Keri cocked an eyebrow. "Like Jesus?"
"Like Lancelot."
"I hang my hair out the window every night, waiting for some dude to climb up.
Aaron Starmer
#15. He loves the most beautiful woman in the world. And like Sir Lancelot, he shall love her exceedingly well.
Orna Ross
#16. C'est moi, c'est moi,'tis I,' I told him. It seemed appropriately melodramatic, though I didn't know if he'd catch the reference. I shouldn't have worried.
Unexpectedly, he laughed. Trust you to quote Lancelot rather than Guinevere.
Patricia Briggs
#17. In France, you have 900 years of romantic love going back to the troubadours and minstrels that wrote stories of Lancelot and Guinevere. You have gallantry at the highest level.
Marilyn Yalom
#18. It was my duty to have loved the highest; It surely was my profit had I known: It would have been my pleasure had I seen. We needs must love the highest when we see it, Not Lancelot, nor another.
Alfred Lord Tennyson
#19. By the way, don't 'weep inwardly' and get a sore throat. If you must weep, weep: a good honest howl! I suspect we - and especially, my sex - don't cry enough now-a-days. Aeneas and Hector and Beowulf, Roland and Lancelot blubbered like schoolgirls, so why shouldn't we?
C.S. Lewis
#20. Thus did I bear Sir Lancelot de Lac to the Keep of Ganleon, whom I trusted like a brother. That is to say, not at all.
Roger Zelazny
#21. Less of a Galahad than a Lancelot, thought Archer. A flawed knight in a flawed world, unstable yet unyielding.
David Gemmell
#22. It's like King Arthur, but Lancelot is a butcher and Guinevere is knocked up.
Gordon Andrews
#23. People identify with the swashbuckling individuals, not polite little men who field their position well. Sir Galahad had a big following - but I'll bet Lancelot had more.
Bill Veeck
#24. I thought I could not breathe in that fine air That pure severity of perfect light I yearned for warmth and colour which I found In Lancelot.
Alfred Lord Tennyson
#25. This coming from the god who zinged Guinevere and Lancelot while King Arthur was away slaying dragons.
Tai
#26. I know hardly anything about Galahad except that everybody dislikes him."
"Dislikes him?"
"They complain about him being inhuman."
Lancelot considered his cup.
"He is inhuman," he said at last. "But why should he be human? Are angels supposed to be human?
T.H. White
#27. The emotional elevation of the film is due in no small measure to the extraordinarily engaging performances of Anne Bancroft as the wife-mother-mistress, Dustin Hoffman as the lumbering Lancelot, and Katherine Ross as his fair Elaine.
Andrew Sarris
#28. Thank you, Father," Sir Lancelot replied gratefully. "But ... er ... Father?" "Yes, Lancelot?" "You didn't say anything about my armor. Is it not shiny enough?
Gerald Morris
#30. There has been no more revolutionary contribution than the one which the Hindus (Indians) made when they invented ZERO.
Lancelot Hogben
#32. A cold coming they had of it, at this time of the year; just the worst time of the year to take a journey, and specially a long journey, in.
Lancelot Andrewes
#36. Gratitude is the praise we offer God: for teachers kind, benefactors never to be forgotten, for all who have advantaged me, by writings, sermons, converse, prayers, examples, for all these and all others which I know, which I know not, open, hidden, remembered, and forgotten.
Lancelot Andrewes
#37. It is dangerous to become attached to a du Lac. He will break your heart, and you will not recover.
Mary Anne Yarde
#38. Science for the Citizen is ... also written for the large and growing number of adolescents, who realize that they will be the first victims of the new destructive powers of science misapplied.
Lancelot Hogben
#39. She would but be repaid by my taking her to wife, and that I could not grant her, for love cometh of the heart and mot by constraint.
Rupert S. Holland
#41. For having wealth and wherewithal to "do good", if you do it not, talk not of faith, for you have no faith in you.
Lancelot Andrewes
#42. Truth cannot be changed. When all the flowers of the world are dead, there will still be a true thing that is a flower.
Clara Winter
#43. Take away, O Lord, the veil of my heart while I read the Scriptures.
Lancelot Andrewes
#44. With full responsibility for my words as a professional biologist, I do not hesitate to say that all existing and genuine knowledge about the way in which the physical characteristics of human communities are related to their cultural capabilities can be written on the back of a postage stamp.
Lancelot Hogben
#45. It is not enough to show that drug A is better than drug B on the average. One is invited to ask, 'For which people ("& why") is drug A better than drug B, and vice versa? If drug A cures 40% and drug B cures 60%, perhaps the right choice of drug for each person would result in 100% cures.'
Lancelot Hogben
#46. There is no part of the whole course of our Saviour Christ's life or death, but it is well worthy our looking on; and from each part in it there goeth virtue to do us good.
Lancelot Andrewes
#47. What shall I do that I may inherit eternal life? Keep the commandments.
Lancelot Andrewes
#48. The Lord is my strength, my strong rock, my defense, my deliverer, the horn of my salvation, and my refuge. Amen.
Lancelot Andrewes
#50. I ask the reader to remember that what is most obvious may be most worthy of analysis. Fertile vistas may open out when commonplace facts are examined from a fresh point of view.
Lancelot Law Whyte
#51. The most delightful and choicest pleasure is that which is hinted at, but never told.
Chretien De Troyes
#52. Pray we for the Clergy; that they may rightly divide, that they may rightly walk; that while they teach others, themselves may learn.
Lancelot Andrewes
#53. There is nothing particularly scientific about excessive caution. Science thrives on daring generalizations.
Lancelot Hogben
#54. Men use to reason with themselves: It will not always be health, let us lay up for sickness; it will not always be youth, for age; and why not, saith St. Paul, it will not alway be this life, nor alway present life, lay up for yourselves against the life to come.
Lancelot Andrewes
#55. We know that the body needs bread, therefore we seek for bread for it: so must we seek for the food of the soul.
Lancelot Andrewes
#56. Well yet, this life such as it is, yet we love it, and loath we are to end it; and if it be in hazard by the law, what running, riding, posting, suing, bribing, and if all will not serve, what breaking prison is there for it!
Lancelot Andrewes
#57. The best therapy for emotional blocks to math is the realization that the human race took centuries or millennia to see through the mist of difficulties and paradoxes which instructors now invite us to solve in a few minutes.
Lancelot Hogben
#58. This is not the age of pamphleteers. It is the age of the engineers. The spark-gap is mightier than the pen. Democracy will not be salvaged by men who talk fluently, debate forcefully and quote aptly.
Lancelot Hogben
#59. Ever since our first fathers by infection took this morbum sathanicum, this devilish disease, pride, of the devil, such tinder is our nature, that every little spark sets us on fire; our nature hath grown so light, that every little thing puffeth us up, and sets us aloft in our altitudes presently.
Lancelot Andrewes
#60. Two things I recognize, O Lord, in myself: Nature, which Thou hast made; Sin, which I have added.
Lancelot Andrewes
#61. Have mercy on me, Lord, for I am weak; remember, Lord, how short my time is; remember that I am but flesh, a wind that passeth away, and cometh not again. My days are as grass, as a flower of the field; for the wind goeth over me, and I am gone, and my place shall know me no more.
Lancelot Andrewes
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