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Famous Quotes By Thomas Malory

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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

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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

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For I have promised to do the battle to the uttermost, by faith of my body, while me lasteth the life, and therefore I had liefer to die with honour than to live with shame ; and if it were possible for me to die an hundred times, I had liefer to die oft than yield me to thee; for though I lack weapon, I shall lack no worship, and if thou slay me weaponless that shall be thy shame. — Thomas Malory

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For love that time was not as love is nowadays. — Thomas Malory

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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

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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

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Wit thou well that I will not live long after thy days. — Thomas Malory

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Whoso pulleth out this sword of this stone and anvil is rightwise king born of all England. — Thomas Malory

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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

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It was the month of May, the month when the foliage of herbs and trees is most freshly green, when buds ripened and blossoms appear in their fragrance and loveliness. And the month when lovers, subject to the same force which reawakens the plants, feel their hearts open again, recall past trysts and past vows, and moments of tenderness, and yearn for a renewal of the magical awareness which is love. — Thomas Malory

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We shall now seek that which we shall not find — Thomas Malory

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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

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I shall bere your noble fame, for ye spake a grete worde and fulfilled it worshipfully. — Thomas Malory

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What... is the wind in that door? — Thomas Malory

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The joy of love is too short, and the sorrow thereof, and what cometh thereof, dureth over long. — Thomas Malory

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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

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King Pellinore that time followed the questing beast. — Thomas Malory

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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

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Enough Is as Good as a feast. — Thomas Malory

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The sweetness of love is short-lived, but the pain endures. — Thomas Malory

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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

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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

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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

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The very purpose of a knight is to fight on behalf of a lady. — Thomas Malory

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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

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With that truncheon thou hast slain a good knight, and now it sticketh in thy body. — Thomas Malory

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for it is better that we slay a coward, than through a coward all we to be slain. — Thomas Malory

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Then he looked by him, and was ware of a damsel that came riding as fast as her horse might gallop upon a fair palfrey. And when she espied that Sir Lanceor was slain, then she made sorrow out of measure, and said, O Balin ! two bodies hast thou slain and one heart, and two hearts in one body, and two souls thou hast lost. — Thomas Malory

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

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The month of May was come, when every lusty heart beginneth to blossom, and to bring forth fruit. — Thomas Malory

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What, nephew, said the king, is the wind in that door? — Thomas Malory