grailquests

[grailquests]

sentence starters from the musical CAMELOT, by lerner & loewe

a warrior who's so calm in battle faces a woman petrified with fright?

and from now on i intend to pray to someone else instead!

shan't i be young before i'm old?

am i never to know the joys of maidenhood? the conventional, ordinary, garden variety joys of maidenhood?

how dare you insult me in this fashion. do my looks repel you?

what a dream you spin, and how easily i could be caught up in it.

i know it gives a person pause.

that's how i became king. i never knew i would be. i never wanted to be.

marriage is rather frightening, isn't it?

war? over me? how simply marvelous!

it's all gone. my magic is gone.

i can only wish for you in ignorance, like everyone else.

proposition: it's far better to be alive than dead.

and here i stand with valor untold, exceptionally brave, amazingly bold.

the soul of a knight should be a thing remarkable, his heart and his mind as pure as morning dew

had i been made the partner of eve, we'd be in eden still.

i worship you before knowing you.

oh, i beg you to forgive me. not because i deserve it, but because by forgiving me, i'll suffer more.

forgive the interruption. anyone here seen a beast with the head of a serpent, the body of a boar and the tail of a lion, baying like forty hounds?

tell me, milord, have you come to grips with humility lately?

all my life i've locked the world out. and, you know, when you lock the world out, you're locked in.

i have so much forgetting to do.

surely i may arrange for your knighthood now. unfortunately, sainthood is not in my power.

i shan't be wounded and not return it in kind.

can passion be selected?

the adage "blood is thicker than water" was invented by undeserving relatives.

it's not the earth the meek inherit, it's the dirt.

fie on goodness!

i loved you once in silence, and misery was all i knew.

oh, the insensitivity of sensitive men!

if i escape, i shall come and rescue you.

treason has been committed! the jury has ruled! let justice be done.

well, you're human after all, aren't you? human and helpless.

how did you think you could survive without being as ruthless as i?

goodbye, my love. my dearest love.

i intend to be a knight.

think back on all the tales that you remember.

battle? i've won my battle. here is my victory!

[grailquests]

sentence starters from THE ONCE AND FUTURE KING, by t.h. white

"my! i must have been on a quest!"

“thou wast ever a proud and ill-tongued speaker, and a misfortunate one. thy sorrow will come from thine own mouth.”

"fair knight, i pray thee tell me thy name."

"only fools want to be great."

"i should pray to god to let me encounter all the evil in the world in my own person, so that if i conquered there would be none left, and, if i were defeated, i would be the one to suffer for it."

"why do people not think, when they are grown up, as i do when i am young?"

"you will carry my shield and spears for the jousts, and i shall win the palm of everybody and be a great knight!"

"how does one get hold of a sword? where can i steal one?"

"oh dear, oh dear, i wish i had never seen that filthy sword at all."

"if there's one thing i can't stand, it is stupidity. i always say that stupidity is the sin against the holy ghost."

"well, it was a good battle. it was a jolly battle, and i won it myself, and it was fun."

"might isn't right, is it?"

"i don't think things ought to be done because you are able to do them. i think they should be done because you ought to do them."

"do you hear that? you are to be the best knight in the world!”

"is the finest knight in europe to throw away everything i have taught him for the sake of a lady's beautiful eyes?"

"the knights are to go on quests, aren't they, to fight against might? what are you trying to stop me for? it's the whole point of the idea."

"whatever was wrong with him, he was game. i am sorry he would not yield."

"stop howling. your husband was a fool and you are a bore. i am not sorry i killed him."

"you fight all the time, and conquer countries and win battles, and then you say that fighting is a bad thing."

"when i was little i prayed to god that he could let me work a miracle."

"i do not understand why you should love me. are you sure you do? is there some mistake about it?"

"i have given you my hopes as a present from my love."

"he is inhuman. but why should he be human? are angels supposed to be human?"

"i am a bad man, i know, but i was always good with arms."

"do we lose our faculties as we get older, so that we can't feel our pains and joys?"

"there was a press of people waving weapons, and knights trying to stop me. i had to cut my way."