Arthur quotes

View Quote (Young Arthur) Mother! I'm finished.

View Quote (Young Arthur) I am to be their commander?

View Quote (Young Arthur) And what of their free will?

View Quote Why did Merlin send you south of the wall?

View Quote That’s not the bishop.

View Quote Bishop Germanius. Welcome to Britain. I see your military skills are still of use to you. Your device worked.

View Quote They do, but they occasionally venture south. Rome’s anticipated withdrawal from Britain has only increased their daring

View Quote Tristan, ride ahead and make sure the road is clear. Please do not worry, Bishop. We will protect you.

View Quote Give thanks to God that I survived to see it.

View Quote I want peace, Lancelot. I’ve had enough. You should visit me.

View Quote It’s a magnificent place, Rome. Ordered, civilized, advanced- The greatest minds of all the land have come together in one sacred place to help make mankind free.

View Quote Bishop, please, my quarters have been made available to you.

View Quote Let us not forget that we are the fortunate ones.

View Quote Let us raise our wine to those gallant and extraordinary men we have lost but who will be remembered for eternity.

View Quote They retain the religion of their forefathers. I’ve never questioned that

View Quote He took my father’s place for me. His teachings on free will and equality have been of great influence. I look forward to our reunion in Rome.

View Quote (looking at his knights) We have no secrets.

View Quote On this day. You ask this of my men, on this day?

View Quote They have risked their lives for fifteen years for a cause not of their own - and now, on the day they are to be liberated, you send them on a mission that is far more dangerous than any other they have undertaken. You tell me, Bishop. How do I go to my men and tell them instead of freedom, I offer death?

View Quote Everything I’ve done has been for the Church and for Rome. Do not mistake a loyal soldier for a fool, Germanius.

View Quote You think very hard upon our vow, Bishop, for I will hold you to it. Break it, and no Roman legion, papal army, nor God Himself will protect you. That is my word.

View Quote Knights. Brothers in arms. Your courage has been tested beyond all limits, but I must ask you now for one further trial.We must leave on a final mission for Rome before our freedom can be granted. Above the wall, there lies a Roman family in need of rescue. They are trapped by Saxons. Our orders are to secure their safety.

View Quote Bors, these are our orders. We leave at first light and when we return, your freedom will be waiting for you. A freedom we can embrace with

View Quote O merciful God, I have such need of Your mercy now. Not for myself, but for my knights, for this is truly their hour of need. Deliver them from their trials ahead and I will pay You a thousand fold with any sacrifice You ask of me. And if in Your wisdom, You should determine that sacrifice must be my life for theirs; so that they can once again taste the freedom that is so long been denied to them, I will gladly make that covenant. My death will have a purpose. I ask no more than that.

View Quote My faith is what protects me, Lancelot. Why do you challenge this?

View Quote No man fears to kneel before the God he trusts. Without faith, without belief in something, what are we?

View Quote These people need our help. It is out duty to bring-

View Quote And yet you choose death for this family!

View Quote How many times in battle have we snatched victory from the jaws of defeat? Outnumbered, outflanked, but still we triumph? With you at my side, we can do so again. Lancelot, we are knights. What other purpose do we serve if not for such a cause?

View Quote My duty is also to my men

View Quote I am Arthur Castus, commander of the Sarmatian knights and by Bishop Germanius of Rome. Open the gate.

View Quote Our orders are to evacuate you immediately.

View Quote Which is Alecto?

View Quote (about the saxons) They’re invading from the north.

View Quote They have. Us. We leave as soon as you’re packed.

View Quote If I fail to bring you and your son back, my men can never leave this land. (through gritted teeth) So you’re coming with me if I have to tie you to my horse and drag you all the way to Hadrian’s Wall myself. (mock bow) My lord. Lady, my knights are hungry.

View Quote What is this punishment for? (silence) Answer me!

View Quote I tell you now. Marius is not of God. And you - all of you - were free from your first breath.

View Quote Now hear me. A vast and terrible army is coming this way. They will show no mercy, spare no one. Those of you who are able should begin to gather your things and move south, towards Hadrian’s Wall. Those unable shall come with us. (to GANIS) You. Serve me now. Gather these people.

View Quote And the only way out is to the south?

View Quote They're coming with us.

View Quote See if there’s still any alive.

View Quote Water! Give me some water!

View Quote I’m a Roman officer. You’re safe now. (WOMAN tries to finger his cloak) You’re safe...

View Quote What is this madness?

View Quote You mean they refused to be your serfs!

View Quote Perhaps I should kill you now and seal my fate.

View Quote Then I shall grant His wish. (to KNIGHTS) Wall them back up.

View Quote We’re not leaving them

View Quote Then save your anger for them.

View Quote Some of your fingers are out of place. I have to push them back. If I don’t do this, there’s a chance you may never use them again.

View Quote (in response to Guinevere's statement) I am.

View Quote Really? And what did you hear?

View Quote Listen, Lady, do not pretend that you know anything about me or my men.

View Quote As many as tried to kill me. It's a natural state of any man to want to live.

View Quote We’ll sleep here. Take shelter in those trees. Tristan.

View Quote Your world, Merlin. Not mine. I shall be in Rome.

View Quote My knights trust me not to betray them to their enemy.

View Quote You tell that to the knights you killed before my eyes! Whose bones are buried in this earth!

View Quote You know nothing of the loss I speak! Shall I help you remember? An attack on a village. The screams of an innocent woman.

View Quote (voiceover) I ran to the burial mound of my father to free her. (back in present scene with MERLIN) To kill you.

View Quote (young Arthur)Father, please... let loose your sword.

View Quote I feel the heat of that fire on my face even now.

View Quote There is not destiny. There is only free will.

View Quote I'm sorry for your loss

View Quote The path he chose was beyond the reach of the church, Alecto

View Quote What, that some men are born to be slaves? No, that isn't true.

View Quote Pelagius, a man as close to me as any there is now teaching that all men are free. Equal. And that each of us has the right to choose his own destiny.

View Quote Get them all out of the carriages. Tell them to spread out.

View Quote Ganis, I need you to lead the people. The main Saxon army is inland so if you track the coastline until you’re well south of the wall, you’ll be safe.

View Quote No. You must bear witness to what you have seen.There’s one thing you must do, and that’s get back to Rome.

View Quote Hold until I give the command

View Quote I believe they’re waiting for an invitation. Bors, Tristan.

View Quote Aim for the wings of the ranks. Make them cluster

View Quote It’s not going to crack. Fall back. Fall back! (draws Excalibur) Prepare for combat.

View Quote Bishop Germanius. Friend of my father.

View Quote It was my father's wish that if he died on this island he would be buried with his knights.

View Quote It's a family tradition

View Quote Deeds in themselves are meaningless unless they are done for some higher purpose. We have waged a war to protect a Rome that doesn't exist. Is that the deed I am to be judged by?

View Quote Pelagius told me once there is no worse death, (voice breaks, he is obviously trying not to cry) than the end of hope.

View Quote Perhaps the curse is of our own making. And the blessing.

View Quote You ask me that. You who know me best of all?

View Quote You be my friend now and do not dissuade me. Seize the freedom you have earned and live it for the both of us. I cannot follow you, Lancelot. I now know that all the blood I have shed, all the lives I have taken have led me to this moment.

View Quote I fight for a cause beyond Rome’s or your understanding

View Quote I came to see your face, so that I alone may find you on the battlefield, and it would be good for you if you marked my face, Saxon, for the next time you see it, it will be the last thing you see on this earth.

View Quote Knights. The gift of freedom is yours by right. But the home we seek resides not in some distant land. It's in us! And in our actions on this day! If this be our destiny, then so be it. But let history remember that as free men, we chose to make it so.

View Quote It was my life to be taken! Not this! Never this!

View Quote My brave knights, I have failed you. I neither took you off this island, nor shared your fate.

View Quote Let every man, woman, child bear witness that from this day, all Britons will be united in one common cause.