Perceval: [holding the Grail to Arthur's lips] You and the land are one. Drink. Arthur: I am wasting away. I cannot die and I cannot live. Perceval: Drink from the chalice. You will be reborn and the land with you. Arthur: [drinks] Perceval... I didn...
Arthur: Do you still have the Sight, Merlin? Are they together? Merlin: Yes. Arthur: You warned me of this, all those years ago. What must I do now... Kill them? Merlin: I can tell you nothing. My days are ended. The gods of once are gone... forever....
Merlin: Look into the eyes of the dragon and despair!
Arthur: Merlin, where are you going? Merlin: Where do you think? You have a kingdom to rule. Arthur: But how? I don't know how. Merlin: You knew how to draw the sword from the stone. Arthur: That was easy. Merlin: Was it? I couldn't have done it.
Merlin: You're not listening... well, your heart is not. Love is deaf as well as blind. That's it.
Merlin: Looking at the cake is like looking at the future, until you've tasted it what do you really know? And then, of course, it's too late. [Arthur takes a bite] Merlin: Too late.
Perceval: I can't give up hope, Lancelot. It's all I have.
Uther: Merlin! You come when you're not asked... and pay no heed when I call you! Merlin: Oh, I have slept... for nine moons. What I did for you wasn't easy. Now you must pay me... the child is mine, Uther... you swore an oath. Uther: They were hasty...
Uther: Where have you been? Merlin: I have walked my way since the beginning of time. Sometimes I give, sometimes I take, it is mine to know which and when! Uther: You must help me, Merlin! Merlin: Must I? Uther: I am your King! Merlin: So! You need ...
[the nobles are arguing over Arthur's drawing of the sword] Uryenes: Lord Leondegrance! Join us against the boy! Leondegrance: I saw what I saw! The boy drew the sword. If a boy has been chosen, a boy shall be King! Uryenes: NO, I challenge that! Sir...
[Uther and Cornwall meet] Merlin: Show the sword! Behold! The Sword of Power! Excalibur! Forged when the world was young, and bird and beast and flower were one with man, and death was but a dream! [to Uther] Merlin: Speak the words! Uther Pendragon:...
[Arthur and Lancelot are fighting at their first encounter] Lancelot: Your rage has unbalanced you. You, sir, would fight to the death, against a knight who is not your enemy. Over a stretch of road you could easily ride around. Arthur: So be it. To ...
Mordred: I've come to claim what is mine, Father. Arthur: Show yourself. [Mordred takes off his mask] Arthur: I cannot give you the land. Only my love. Mordred: That's the one thing of yours I don't want! The quest knights have failed. They're all de...
Merlin: What are you afraid of? Arthur: I don't know. Merlin: Shall I tell you what's out there? Arthur: Yes, please. Merlin: The Dragon. A beast of such power that if you were to see it whole and all complete in a single glance, it would burn you to...
Merlin: The days of our kind are numberèd. The one God comes to drive out the many gods. The spirits of wood and stream grow silent. It's the way of things. Yes... it's a time for men, and their ways.
Arthur: [to Kay] Ready my knights for battle. They will ride with their king once more. I have lived through others for far too long. Lancelot carried my honor, and Guenevere, my guilt. Mordred bears my sins. My knights have fought my causes. Now, my...
Arthur: I was not born to live a man's life, but to be the stuff of future memory.
Arthur: [to Guinevere] I've often thought that in the hereafter of our lives, when I owe no more to the future... can be just a man... we might meet. You'd come to me, claim me yours, know that I am your husband. [He starts to leave, then turns to fa...