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...
We are so numerous that we are starving. Therefore we must encourage still larger families so as to become yet more numerous and starving. When we are so numerous and starving as all that, obviously w...
They made me see that the world was beautiful if you were beautiful, and that you couldn't get unless you gave. And you had to give without wanting to get.
The Wart did not know what Merlyn was talking about, but he liked him to talk. He did not like the grown-ups who talked down to him, but the ones who went on talking in their usual way, leaving him to...
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...
Man, proud man, stands there in the twentieth century, complacently believing that the race has 'advanced' in the course of a thousand miserable years, and busy blowing his brothers to bits. When will...
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...
I will tell you something else, King, which may be a surprise for you. It will not happen for hundreds of years, but both of us are to come back.
I see what you think you mean, said the magician, but you are wrong. There is no excuse for war, none whatever, and whatever wrong which your nation might be doing to mine-short of war-my nation would...
I don't think you can very well give people as presents: they might not like it.
I am an anarchist, like any other sensible person.~ Merlyn
How condescending, how splendidly democratic of Sir Lancelot, to laugh, as if he were an ordinary man! Perhaps he eats and drinks as well, or even sleeps at night.
Education is experience, and the essence of experience is self-reliance.
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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.
An ordinary fellow, who did not spend half his life torturing himself by trying to discover what was right so as to conquer his inclination towards what was wrong, might have cut the knot which brough...
Although they are often ready to play the buffoon to amuse you, such conduct is the prerogative of the truly wise.
You have become the king of a domain in which the popular agitators hate each other for racial reasons, while the nobility fight each other for fun, and neither the racial maniac nor the overlord stop...
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...
War is like a fire. One man may start it, but it will spread all over. It is not about one thing in particular.
