Gilbert White,’ said Merlyn, ‘remarks, or will remark, however you like to put it, that ‘the language of birds is very ancient, and, like other ancient modes of speech, little is said, but much is int...
Everybody is always saying what a parfit, gentle knight I am, but it has nothing to do with me. It is Arthur’s idea. It is what he has wished on all the younger generation, like Gareth, and now it is...
Education is experience, and the essence of experience is self-reliance.
Cavall came simply and gave his heart and soul.
But his heart had been made as a match for Elaine's, and now it was unable to bear the burden which hers had been forced to lay down.
In going to sleep he had learned to vanquish light, and now the light could not rewake him.
For few people can hate so bitterly and so self-righteously as the members of a ruling caste which is being dispossessed.
A king can only work with his best tools.
[Kay] was not at all an unpleasant person really, but clever, quick, proud, passionate and ambitious. He was one of those people who would be neither a follower nor a leader, butonly an aspiring heart...
You run a grave risk, my boy, said the magician, of being turned into a piece of bread, and toasted.
We are more numerous than they are, therefore we have a right to their mash. They are more numerous than we are, therefore they are wickedly trying to steal our mash. We are a mighty race and have a n...
Wart draggled off to the tower room, where Merlyn was busy knitting himself a woollen night-cap for the winter. I cast off two together at every other line, said the magician, but for some reason it s...
There were thousands of brown books in leather bindings, some chained to the book-shelves and others propped against each other as if they had had too much to drink and did not really trust themselves...
Their mother is Athene, the goddess of wisdom, and, although they are often ready to play the buffoon to amuse you, such conduct is the prerogative of the truly wise.
The best thing for disturbances of the spirit is to learn. That is the only thing that never fails. You may grow old and trembling in your anatomies, you may lie awake at night listening to the disord...
Neither force, nor argument, nor opinion, said Merlyn with the deepest sincerity, are thinking. Argument is only a display of mental force, a sort of fencing with points in order to gain a victory, no...
Life is too bitter already, without territories and wars and noble feuds.
Leave well alone.
It happened like this in the world. Old things lost their grip and dropped away; not always because they were bad things, but sometimes because the new things were more bad, and stronger.
He was standing in the Inner Court, shouting for his enemy. When Guenever saw him, and he saw her, the electric message went between their eyes before they spoke a word. It was as if Elaine and the wh...