Thomas Malory Quotes

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• The month of May was come, when every lusty heart beginneth to blossom, and to bring forth fruit; for like as herbs and trees bring…
• Enough is as good as a feast.
• Nowadays men cannot love seven night but they must have all their desires: that love may not endure by reason; for where they be soon…
• Queen Guenever, for whom I make here a little mention, that while she lived she was a true lover, and therefore she had a good…
• The very purpose of a knight is to fight on behalf of a lady.
• Yet some men say in many parts of England that King Arthur is not dead, but had by the will of our Lord Jesu into…
• We shall now seek that which we shall not find
• The sweetness of love is short-lived, but the pain endures.
• For, as I suppose, no man in this world hath lived better than I have done, to achieve that I have done.
• It was the month of May, the month when the foliage of herbs and trees is most freshly green, when buds ripened and blossoms appear…
• What, nephew, said the king, is the wind in that door?
• The month of May was come, when every lusty heart beginneth to blossom, and to bring forth fruit.
• Wit thou well that I will not live long after thy days.
• Then he looked by him, and was ware of a damsel that came riding as fast as her horse might gallop upon a fair palfrey.…
• With that truncheon thou hast slain a good knight, and now it sticketh in thy body.
• And much more am I sorrier for my good knights' loss than for the loss of my fair queen; for queens I might have enough,…
• For as well as I have loved thee heretofore, mine heart will not serve now to see thee; for through thee and me is the…
• For love that time was not as love is nowadays.
• King Pellinore that time followed the questing beast.
• Through this same man and me hath all this war been wrought, and the death of the most noblest knights of the world; for through…

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