Camelot (film)

"Mordred: [to Arthur about Guenevere] What a magnificent dilemma! Let her die, your life is over; let her live, your life's a fraud. Which will it be, Arthur? Do you kill the Queen or kill the law?"

"Company: [singing] Guinevere, Guinevere. In that dim, mournful year Saw the men she held so dear Go to war for Guinevere."

"Company: [singing] Guinevere, Guinevere Oh, they found Guinevere In the dying candle's gleam Came the sundown of a dream."

"The Most Beautiful Love Story Ever!"

"A whole new world of magnificent musical entertainment."

"Richard Harris - Arthur"

"Vanessa Redgrave - Guinevere"

"Franco Nero - Lancelot"

"David Hemmings - Mordred"

"Lionel Jeffries - King Pellinore"

"Laurence Naismith - Merlyn"

"Pierre Olaf - Dap"

"Just when I reach the golden age of eligibility and wooability. Is my fate determined by love and courtship? Oh, no. [Bitterly] Clause one: fix the border; Clause two: establish trade; Clause three: deliver me; Clause four: stop the war; five, six: pick up sticks. How cruel! How unjust! Am I never to know the joys of maidenhood? The conventional, ordinary, garden variety joys of maidenhood?"

"[about Mordred] The one thing I can say for him is that he's bound to marry well. Everybody is above him."

"Must we talk about Mordred? This is the first time in a month that he's not coming to dinner and not having him makes it seem like a party!"

"Merlyn, why have you never taught me love and marriage?"

"I am irritating. I always will be. All fanatics are bores, Pellinore, and I'm a fanatic. Even when I was a child I irritated the other children. I wanted to play their games, but I knew I could not. Even then I was filled with a sense of divine purpose. I'm not saying I enjoy it. All my life I've locked the world out. And, you know, when you lock the world out, you're locked in."

"Pellinore: Forgive the interruption. Anyone here seen a beast with the head of a serpent, the body of a boar and the tail of a lion, baying like forty hounds?"

"C'est moi!"

"Proposition: It's far better to be alive than to be dead."

"[singing] And -what of teaching me by turning me to animal and bird, From beaver to the smallest bobolink! I should have had a -whirl At changing to a girl, To learn the way the creatures think!"

"Merlyn told me once: Never be too disturbed if you don't understand what a woman is thinking. They don't do it often."

"I dreamed ... I dreamed."

"All we've been through, for nothing but an idea! Something that you cannot taste, smell, or feel; without substance, life, reality, memory."

"I love them and they answer me with pain and torment. Be it sin or not sin, they betray me in their hearts and that's far sin enough. I can feel it in their eyes, I can feel it when they speak, and they must pay for it and be punished. I shall not be wounded and not return it in kind! I'm through with feeble hoping! I demand a man's vengeance! [Calming down] Proposition: I'm a king, not a man. And a civilized king. Could it possibly be civilized to destroy what I love? Could it possibly be civilized to love myself above all? What of their pain and their torment? Did they ask for this calamity? Can passion be selected?"

"The adage, "Blood is thicker than water," was invented by undeserving relatives."

"Merlyn! Merlyn, make me a hawk. Let me fly away from here!"

"[singing] Ask ev'ry person if he's heard the story; And tell it strong and clear if he has not: That once there was a fleeting wisp of glory Called Camelot. Camelot! Camelot!"

"[to Mordred] Far more seasoned rascals than you have polished their souls, I advise you, get out the wax. Better to be rubbed clean than rubbed out."

"[angrily] Mordred, I must remind you that I am a civilized man. With occasional lapses."