Guinevere Quotes in King Arthur (2004)

Lancelot: You look frightened. There's a large number of lonely men out there.

Guinevere: Don't worry, I won't let them rape you.

Arthur: Pelagius told me once: "There is no worse death than the end of hope."

Guinevere: You and I are not the polite people that live in poems. We are blessed and cursed by our times.

Guinevere: Arthur and his knights. A leader both Briton and Roman. And yet, you chose your allegiance to Rome, to those who take what does not belong to them. That same Rome that took your men from their homeland.

Arthur: Listen, lady, do not pretend you know anything about me or my men.

Guinevere: How many Britons have you killed?

Arthur: As many as tried to kill me. It's the natural state of any man to want to live.

Guinevere: Animals live! It's the natural state of any man to want to live free... in their own country. I belong to this land. Where do you belong, Arthur?

Guinevere: This is heaven for me.

Lancelot: I don't believe in Heaven, I've been living in this Hell. But if you represent what Heaven is, then take me there.

[it starts raining and snowing]

Lancelot: Rain and snow at once... a bad omen.

Guinevere: My father told me great tales of you.

Arthur: Really? And what did you hear?

Guinevere: Fairy tales. The kind you hear about people so brave, so selfless, that they can't be real.

[about Arthur's father]

Guinevere: He died in battle?

Arthur: It's a family tradition.

Guinevere: [to Arthur] Is there nothing about my land that appeals to your heart? Your own father married a Briton. Even he must have found something to his liking.

Guinevere: They tortured me... with machines.

Guinevere: I belong to this land. Where do you belong?

Guinevere: What tomorrow brings, we cannot know.

[Arthur has re-set Guinevere's broken fingers]

Arthur: How's your hand?

Guinevere: I'll live, I promise you.

Guinevere: Love has many faces. I may look on you differently, but not with less love.

Arthur: John will send any message you want.

Guinevere: My Lord grants my wishes before I speak them.

Guinevere: [Addressing the messenger] Tell my people I'm come safe into my new country. Tell them you saw my eyes filled with tears of joy.

Arthur: Already a queen.

Guinevere: If there is any honor in you, promise me never to do that again.

Lancelot: I don't know about honor. But I promise you, I won't kiss you again till you ask me to.

Guinevere: I want to marry you. Not your crown, not your army. Just you.

Guinevere: I only know one way to love my lord, and that is body and mind and soul.

Guinevere: I should have known better than to trust a Frenchman!

Guinevere: Must we talk about Mordred? This is the first time in a month that he's not coming to dinner and not having him makes it seem like a party!

Lancelot Du Lac: Ginny, I - I love you. God forgive me, but I do.

Guinevere: Then God forgive us both, Lance.

King Arthur: [King Arthur runs into the room] Ginny, Ginny! Oh, what a glorious day!

Guinevere: Was there ever a more inconvenient marriage of convenience? Here am I, at the golden age of seductibility and is my fate sealed with a kiss? Is it? No. Sealed with a seal.

Guinevere: It's the most ferocious, savage, terrifying forest I've ever seen. I simply adore it.

Lady Clarinda: Does your ladyship not realize that this forest is crawling with outlaws and dragons?

Guinevere: Oh, Clari, do you think there's any chance that we can see one?

Lady Clarinda: Don't say it, ma'am.

Guinevere: It would be marvelous.

Guinevere: You could be my protector! You think of it? You could defend me all over the world in France and England, Mongolia. Scotland.

King Arthur: Ginny, Ginny, suppose we create a new order of chivalry? A new order where might is only used for right! To improve instead of to destroy. Look, we'll invite all the knights, all the kings of all the kingdoms, to lay down there arms to come and join us. Oh yes, Ginny. I will take one of the large rooms in the castle, put a table in it, and all the knights will gather at it.

Guinevere: And do what?

King Arthur: Talk across it. Debate. Make laws. Plan improvements!

Guinevere: But, Arthur, do you think all the knights will ever want to? To do such a ridiculously peaceful thing?

King Arthur: We'll make it a great honor. Very fashionable! Everyone will want to join! Only now, the knights will whack only for good. Might for right. Might for right. Might - for - right. That's it, Ginny. Might. No, not might is right. Might - For - Right!

Guinevere: It's very original.

King Arthur: Yes. Yes-Yes. And civilized, Ginny.

Guinevere: Arthur, it will have to be an awfully large table. Won't there be jealousy? All the knights will be claiming superiority and want to sit at the head.

King Arthur: We'll make it - a round table. So, there is no head.

King Arthur: Well, this is appalling Ginny! It will seem to the court that you are championing his defeat!

Guinevere: We don't know if he'll be defeated. He knocked you unconscious. You woke up his bosom friend. Perhaps he'll knock them out too and they'll all take a house by the sea together.

King Arthur: Ginny, I realize he's having a difficult time adjusting. He's a stranger! He's not even English. He's French!

Guinevere: Well, he suffers in translation.

Guinevere: I want you to go, Lance.

Lancelot Du Lac: Ginny, Ginny.

Guinevere: No, I do. I don't worry about the future, we have none. But, if anything happened to the past, any more shame and any more guilt, could make a ruin of it. The past is all I have. The past is all I have.