Gawain Quotes in King Arthur (2004)

Gawain: [after Tristan lands his dagger in the butt of Galahad's dagger] Tristan, how do you do that?

Tristan: I aim for the middle.

[Lancelot's plans for the future]

Lancelot: Well, if this woman of Gawain's is as beautiful as he claims, I expect to be spending a lot of time at Gawain's house. His wife will welcome the company.

Gawain: I see. And what will I be doing?

Lancelot: Wondering at your good fortune that all your children look like me.

Gawain: Is that before or after I hit you with my axe?

Gawain: I can't wait to leave this island. If it's not raining, it's snowing, and if it's not snowing, it's foggy.

Lancelot: And that's summer.

Galahad: I don't like him - the Roman. If he's here to dispatch us, then why doesn't he just give us our papers?

Gawain: Is this your happy face? Galahad, do you still not know the Romans? They can't scratch their asses without holding a ceremony.

Gawain: The gifts the gods gave me I use in battle or in bed.

Lancelot, Arthur, Bors, Gawain, Tristan, Dagonet: [the knights line up on the hill near the fort and charge towards the Saxons] For Arthur!

Arthur: Knights... Brothers and arms... Your courage has been testet beyond all limits.

Bors: Yes

Arthur: But I must ask you now for one further trial.

Bors: Drink.

Arthur: We must leave on a final mission for Rome before our freedom can be granted. Above the wall, far north, there is a Roman family in need of rescue. They are trapped by Saxons. Our orders is to secure their safety.

Bors: Let the Romans take care of their own.

Gawain: Above the wall is Woad territory.

Galahad: Our duty to Rome, if it ever was a duty, is done. Our pact with Rome is done.

Bors: Every knight here has laid his life on the line for you. For you. And instead of freedom you want more blood? Our blood? You think more of Roman blood than you do of ours?

Arthur: 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 honour.

Bors: I'm a free man! I will choose my own fate!

Tristan: Yeah, yeah, we're all going to die someday. If it's a death from a Saxons hand that frightens you, stay home.

Galahad: Listen, if you're so eager to die, you can die right now! I've got something to live for!

Lancelot: Enough. Enough!

Dagonet: The Romans have broken their word. We have the word of Arthur. That is good enough. I'll prepare.

Bors: Well, now that we're free men, I'm gonna drink 'tll I can't piss straight.

Gawain: You do that every night.

Bors: I never could piss straight. Too much of myself to handle down there...

[looks at the Knights]

Bors: Well, it's a problem! No really, it is. It's a problem. It's like...

Bors, Gawain, Lancelot, Tristan, Galahad, Dagonet: ...a baby's arm holding an apple.

Arthur: Where hides evil in my kingdom, then?

Merlin: Always... where you never expect it. Always.

Gawain: I know where.

Arthur: Where, Sir Gawain?

Gawain: I cannot say.

Arthur: You must speak your heart. You sit at the Round Table. Where is this evil?

Gawain: He's our best... and our bravest... why, then, is he never here? Without Lancelot, this table is nothing! Is there anyone here who doesn't think him a god? And now to be driven from us

[points to Guenevere]

Gawain: by a woman's desire!

Guenevere: In the idleness that comes with peace, I see that gossip has bred its own evil! I will forgive your hasty words. Come... drink from Lancelot's cup, and partake of his 'goodness'.

[the cup is passed to Gawain, who proceeds to slam it upside-down on the table in defiance of Guenevere]

Arthur: You DARE accuse the Queen, Gawain?

Gawain: I do!

Guenevere: I protest my innocence!

Arthur: [standing up and drawing Excalibur threateningly] WERE I NOT KING, I WOULD MAKE YOU PAY WITH YOUR LIFE FOR WHAT YOU'VE SAID!

Guenevere: Will you not champion me?

Arthur: I cannot! I am your King, and I must be your judge in this. Lancelot must do it. He also stands accused. I decree - that at sunrise, two days from now, the champions will meet, and the truth shall be known. For by the law of God, no knight who is false can win in combat with one who is true.