Sir Thomas Malory quotes

" 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. " # Love # Desire # Anger

" Queen Guenever, for whom I make here a little mention, that while she lived she was a true lover, and therefore she had a good end. " # Lovers # Love # Friends and Friendship

" For like as herbs and trees bringing forth fruit and flourish in May, in likewise every lusty heart that is in any manner a lover, springeth and flourisheth in lusty deeds. " # Spring # Love # Manners

" 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. " # Books - Reading # War # Kings

" Well, said Merlin, I know whom thou seekest, for thou seekest Merlin; therefore seek no farther, for I am he. " # Youth # Possibilities # Vision

" Whoso pulleth out this sword of this stone and anvil, is rightwise King born of all England. " # Kings # Character # Love

" In the midst of the lake Arthur was are of an arm clothed in white samite, that held a fair sword in that hand. " # Love # Perseverance # Death and Dying

" With that truncheon thou hast slain a good knight, and now it sticketh in thy body. " # Twentieth Century # Death and Dying # Friends and Friendship

" Knight, keep well thy head, for thou shalt have a buffet for the slaying of my horse. " # Challenges # Virtue # Friends and Friendship

" 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. " # Love # Pain # Courage