Mordred and Agravaine thought Arthur hypocritical—as all decent men must be, if you assume that decency can’t exist.
If you achieve perfection, you die.
I suppose the best way to tell the story is simply to narrate it, without an effort to carry belief. The thing did not require belief. It was not a feeling of horror in one's bones, or a misty outline...
When a moral sense begins to rot it is worse than when you had none.
A king can only work with his best tools.
The author says people are guilty of wrecking the present because the future was bound to be a wreck.
People commit suicide through weakness, not through strength.
In war, our elders may give the orders...but it is the young who have to fight.
He felt in his heart cruelty and cowardice, the things which made him brave and kind.
We have invented a moral sense which is rotting now that we can't give it employment, and when a moral sense begins to rot, it is worse than when you had none. I suppose that all endeavors which are d...
The bravest people are the ones who don’t mind looking like cowards.
Don't kill me,' said the knight. 'I yield. I yield. You can't kill a man at mercy.'Lancelot put up his sword and went back from the knight, as if he were going back from his own soul. He felt in his h...
Made of stone. It had no windows and only one door, through which you had to crawl.
We cannot build the future by avenging the past.
So Merlyn sent you to me, said the badger, to finish your education. Well, I can only teach you two things -- to dig, and love your home. These are the true end of philosophy.
Nay, said Sir Lancelot ...for once shamed may never be recovered.
It is so fatally easy to make young children believe that they are horrible.
It is difficult to write about a real person.
He was feeling a new heresy coming over him, possibly as a result of the spirits, and it had something to do about the celibacy of the clergy. He had one already about the shape of his tonsure and the...
He caught a glimpse of that extraordinary faculty in man, that strange, altruistic, rare, and obstinate decency which will make writers or scientists maintain their truths at the risk of death. Eppur...