Merlyn always said that sportsmanship was the curse of the world, and so it is.
I don't think things ought to be done because you are to do them. I think they should be done because you to do them.
I am a failure in the world. I do not rule people, nor deceive them for the sake of power, nor try to swindle their livelihood into my own possession. I say to them: Please go freely on your way, and...
Grey damp would be around them, and the sun, a copper penny, would fade away. The wings next to their own wings would shade into vacancy, until each bird was a lonely sound in cold annihilation, a pre...
He began to see why Merlyn had always clowned on purpose. It had been a means of helping people to learn in a happy way.
You swim along, said the tench, as if there was nothing to be afraid of in the world. Don't you see that this place is exactly like the forest which you had to come through to find me?
When Other blood spurts from the knife, Then everything is fine.
The blessing of forgetfulness: that was the first essential. If everything one did, or which one’s fathers had done, was an endless sequence of Doings doomed to break forth bloodily, then the past mus...
So we may well believe that the King's men were shriven on the night before they fought. Something of the young man's vision had penetrated to his captains and his soldiers. Something of the new ideal...
Queen Morgause, said Gwenever thoughtfully, must have been a strange person.
Perhaps we all give the best of our hearts uncritically – to those who hardly think about us in return.
One more try,' he asked, 'We are not quite done.' 'What is the use of trying?' 'It is a thing which people do.
Merlyn took the Wart’s hand and said kindly, You are young, and do not understand these things. But you will learn that owls are the most courteous, single-hearted and faithful creatures living. You m...
Love is a trick played on us by the forces of evolution. Pleasure is the bait laid down by the same. There is only power. Power is of the individual mind but the mind's power is not enough. Power of t...
In the castle of Benwick, the French boy was looking at his face in the polished surface of a kettle-hat. It flashed in the sunlight with the stubborn gleam of metal. It was practically the same as th...
If I were to be made a knight, said the Wart, staring dreamily into the fire, I should insist on doing my vigil by myself, as Hob does with his hawks, and I should pray to God to let me encounter all...
He was neither clever nor sensitive, but he was loyal--stubbornly sometimes, and even annoyingly and stupidly so in later life.
A fortnight after the Winchester tournament, while Elaine nursed her hero back to life, Guenever was having a scene with Sir Bors at court. Being a woman-hater, Bors always had instructive scenes with...
There is only one thing for it then – to learn. Learn why the world wags and what wags it. That is the only thing which the mind can never exhaust, never alienate, never be tortured by, never fear or...
The snow-haired Uncle Dap, so old as to be absolutely fabulous, was trying to jump over his walking-stick.