Thomas Malory Quotes:

The joy of love is too short, and the sorrow thereof, and what cometh thereof, dureth over long.

source: - 'Le Morte D'Arthur' (1485) bk. 10, ch. 56

Topics: Love Is, Long, Joy

The month of May was come, when every lusty heart beginneth to blossom, and to bring forth fruit.

source: - 'Le Morte D'Arthur' (1485) bk. 18, ch. 25

Topics: Heart, Lust, Months, Spring Poems

Wit thou well that I will not live long after thy days.

source: - Sir Thomas Malory (1968). “King Arthur and His Knights: Selected Tales”

Topics: Mistake, Long, Wit

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. And when she espied that Sir Lanceor was slain, then she made sorrow out of measure, and said, O Balin ! two bodies hast thou slain and one heart, and two hearts in one body, and two souls thou hast lost.

source: - Thomas Malory (1907). “The Arthurian tales”, p.41, Рипол Классик

Topics: Horse, Heart, Two, Two Souls, Two Hearts

With that truncheon thou hast slain a good knight, and now it sticketh in thy body.

source: - Sir Thomas Malory “Annotated Le Morta D'Arthur King Arthur and his Noble Knights of the Round Table, Vol I with English Grammar Exercises: by Sir Thomas Malory (Author), Robert Powell (Editor)”, Powell Publications, LLC

Topics: Knights, 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, but such a fellowship of good knights shall never be together in no company.

source: - Thomas Malory (1998). “Le Morte Darthur : The Winchester Manuscript”, p.481, Oxford Paperbacks

Topics: Queens, Loss, Knights

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 flower of kings and knights destroyed.

source: - Sir Thomas Malory, Eugène Vinaver (1975). “King Arthur and His Knights: Selected Tales”, p.219, Oxford University Press, USA

Topics: Kings, Flower, Heart

It befell in the days of Uther Pendragon, when he was king of all England, and so reigned, that there was a mighty duke in Cornwall that held war against him long time. And the duke was called the duke of Tintagil.

source: - Sir Thomas Malory (1871). “Morte D'Arthur: Sir Thomas Malory's Book of King Arthur and of His Noble Knights of the Round Table”, p.25

Topics: Kings, War, Book, Pendragon, Cornwall

Always Sir Arthur lost so much blood that it was a marvel he stood on his feet, but he was so full of knighthood that knightly he endured the pain.

source: - Thomas Malory (2009). “Le MORTE DARTHUR: the Book of King Arthur and of His Noble Knights of the Round Table [volume 1 Of 4]”, p.93, Lulu.com

Topics: Pain, Blood, Feet, Knighthood

What, nephew, said the king, is the wind in that door?

source: - Thomas Malory (2009). “Le MORTE DARTHUR: the Book of King Arthur and of His Noble Knights of the Round Table [volume 2 Of 4]”, p.52, Lulu.com

Topics: Kings, Wind, Doors, Niece And Nephew

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 in their fragrance and loveliness. And the month when lovers, subject to the same force which reawakens the plants, feel their hearts open again, recall past trysts and past vows, and moments of tenderness, and yearn for a renewal of the magical awareness which is love.

source: - Sir Thomas Malory, Keith Baines (1962). “Le morte d'Arthur”

Topics: Heart, Past, Tree, Foliage

Enough is as good as a feast.

Topics: Gratitude, Enough

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 accorded and hasty, heat soon it cooleth. Right so fareth love nowadays, soon hot soon cold: this is no stability. But the old love was not so.

source: - Sir Thomas Malory (1936). “A Shorter Malory”

Topics: Love, Night, Men

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 end.

source: - 'Le Morte D'Arthur' (1485) bk. 18, ch. 25

Topics: Love, Queens, Littles

The very purpose of a knight is to fight on behalf of a lady.

source: - Sir Thomas Malory (1962). “Le morte d'Arthur: King Arthur and the legends of the Round Table”, Signet

Topics: Fighting, Knights, Purpose

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 another place; and men say that he shall come again, and he shall win the holy cross.

source: - Sir Thomas Malory (1996). “Le Morte Darthur”, p.793, Wordsworth Editions

Topics: Kings, Winning, Men, Holy Cross, King Arthur

We shall now seek that which we shall not find

source: - Sir Thomas Malory (1962). “Le morte d'Arthur: King Arthur and the legends of the Round Table”, Signet

The sweetness of love is short-lived, but the pain endures.

source: - Sir Thomas Malory (1962). “Le morte d'Arthur: King Arthur and the legends of the Round Table”, Signet

Topics: Pain, Love Is, Endure, Short Lived

For, as I suppose, no man in this world hath lived better than I have done, to achieve that I have done.

source: - 'Le Morte D'Arthur' (1485) bk. 17, ch. 16

Topics: Men, World, Done

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 forth fruit and flourish in May, in likewise every lusty heart that is in any manner a lover, springeth and flourisheth in lusty deeds. For it giveth unto all lovers courage, that lusty month of May.

Topics: Spring, Heart, Tree