- King Arthur: May God grant us the wisdom to discover right, the will to choose it, and the strength to make it endure.
- Arthur: Lancelot, just a thought. A man who fears nothing is a man who loves nothing; and if you love nothing, what joy is there in your life? I may be wrong.
- King Arthur: There's a peace that's only to be found on the other side of war. If that battle must come, I will fight it.
- King Arthur: I have no pride left in me. What I do, now I do for my people and for Camelot. And may they forgive me. This is my last act as your king. Do not be afraid. All things change. I am Arthur of Camelot, and I command you now... all... To fight! Fight like you've never fought before! Never surrender! Never Surrender! Fight as you never...
- [Arthur is shot by several crossbow bolts]
- King Arthur: Camelot lives!
- King Arthur: Either what we hold to be right, and good, and true IS right and good and true for all mankind under God, or we're just another robber tribe.
- Lancelot: You have to sudy your opponent: how he moves, so you know what he's gonna do before he does it.
- Mark: I can do that.
- Lancelot: You have to know that one moment in every fight when you win or lose and you have to know how to wait for it.
- Mark: I can do that.
- Lancelot: And you have to not care whether you live or die.
- King Arthur: For the first in my life, I wanted what all wise man say can't last; what can't be promised or made to linger any more than sunlight. I don't want to die without having felt its warmth on my face.
- King Arthur: This is the heart of Camelot, not these stones, not these timbers, these palaces and towers. Burn them all and Camelot lives on, because it lives in us. Camelot is a belief that we hold in our hearts.
- Peter, King's Stableman: [Refers to Guinevere riding] She's a rare beauty, sire.
- Arthur: Yes, she is.
- Peter, King's Stableman: So is the mare.
- Arthur: I ask you not to lie to me, even if you think you'll hurt me. Have you given yourself to him?
- Guinevere: No, my lord.
- Arthur: Do you love him?
- Guinevere: Yes.
- Arthur: How did I fail you?
- Guinevere: You've never failed me, my lord.
- Arthur: I saw your face as you kissed him.
- Guinevere: Love has many faces. I look on you differently, but not with less love.
- Guinevere: Do you have secrets to tell me?
- Arthur: No. No secrets. Just a question. Do you want to marry me? You don't have to marry me because your father wanted it. Camelot will protect Lyonesse, whether you marry me or not.
- Guinevere: Thank you. You don't know what it means to me to hear you say that.
- Arthur: Do you want to be released from the engagement?
- Guinevere: No. I want to marry you. Not your crown, not your army. Just you.
- Malagant: Self-sacrifice is very easy. It's having to sacrifice someone you love that puts your convictions to the test.
- Lancelot: I've never believed in anything before. But I do believe in Camelot, and I would serve it best by leaving.
- Arthur: My truest... my First Knight. Camelot is your home now. You are the future... The future of Camelot. You take care of her for me. Take care of her.
- Arthur: [Reading Malagant's peace treaty] "Armed forces to be given access to all Leonesse."
- [Malagant looks smuggly at him and Guinevere]
- Arthur: "Troops to assist in the enforcement of law... in all Leonesse."
- Arthur: Do you want to sign this?
- Guinevere: I'll never sign it.
- Arthur: There's your answer she says no.
- Arthur: When a woman loves two men, she must choose between them.
- Guinevere: I choose you.
- Arthur: Your will chooses me. Your heart chooses him.
- Guinevere: My will is stronger than my heart. Do you think I put so high a price on my feelings? They'll pass. My will holds me to my course through life.
- Arthur: As mine does me. And yet, all I have to do is look at you and everything I ever believed in fades to nothing. All I want is your love.
- Guinevere: You have it.
- Arthur: Do I? Then look on me as you looked on him.
- Guinevere: I gave one moment to Lancelot.
- Arthur: Yes. You're innocent. BUT YOU LOVE HIM!
- [walks off]
- Arthur: Any more of this innocence and I'll go mad!
- Malagant: What I offer you is freedom; freedom from Arthur's tyrannical dream; fredom from Arthur's tyrannical law; freedom from Arthur's tyrannical God.
- King Arthur: I trusted you, loved you, and you betrayed me!
- Lancelot: I never meant to hurt you, my lord.
- King Arthur: You leave me nothing! Nothing!
- Malagant: Men don't want brotherhood, they want leadership. HO!
- [Claps his hands and all his men stand at attention at once]
- Malagant: They say this was once the greatest castle ever built. Now moss grows in the hall where kings once feasted, and peasants cart away the mighty walls stone by stone to make shelters for their pigs. Hah! Such is glory.
- Arthur: Where is it written "Beyond Camelot live lesser people. People too weak to protect themselves. Let them die"?
- Malagant: Don't make an enemy of me. I mean no harm to Camelot. You know the law we live by.
- King Arthur: And where is it written "Beyond Camelot live lesser people, people too weak to protect themselves, let them die"?
- Malagant: Other people live by other laws, Arthur. Or is the law of Camelot to rule the entire world?
- King Arthur: There are laws that enslave men, and laws that set them free. Either what we hold to be right and good and true is right and good and true for all mankind under God, or we're just another robber tribe.
- Malagant: Your fine words are talking you out of peace and into war.
- King Arthur: There's a peace that's only to be found on the other side of war. If that battle must come, I will fight it.
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