Lancelot Du Lac Quotes in Camelot (1967)

King Arthur: We must arrange for your knighthood.

Lancelot Du Lac: No, sire! Invest me because of deeds, not words! Give me an order!

King Arthur: Now?

Lancelot Du Lac: This moment! Is there some wrong I can right, some peril I can face, some quest I can undertake?

King Arthur: Well... actually... there's not much going on today. The Queen and some of her court have gone a-maying.

Lancelot Du Lac: Gone... a-maying?

King Arthur: Well, it's a sort of... um... picnic? They pick flowers and chase young...

Lancelot Du Lac: Picnic?

King Arthur: It's a custom we have here. This is England, you know. And this is the season for gathering flowers.

Lancelot Du Lac: Knights? Gathering FLOWERS?

King Arthur: Well, SOMEONE has to do it!

King Pellinore: Excuse a, ah - me. But do you not have any, ah, activities? Any, ah, hobbies? Any, ah, chambering de coucher?

Lancelot Du Lac: No, Pellinore.

King Pellinore: [to King Arthur] There, you see. You see. Now, why can't he be like the other chaps instead of like himself? Why can't he come home in the evening and hang up his shield and do something that he can be ashamed of! Hmmm? He sure is French.

Lancelot Du Lac: Dap, you are older than I. You know this Earth better than I. I only fell upon it a few hours ago.

Dap: What are you talking about?

Lancelot Du Lac: Guinevere!

Lancelot Du Lac: If the king grants you clemency, you shall be banished. If not, you hang.

King Arthur: Clemency is granted.

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!

Lancelot Du Lac: The next time you traffic with me, remember... you challenge the right hand of King Arthur!

King Arthur: I *am* King Arthur!

Lancelot Du Lac: What? You... are the king?

King Arthur: Almost the *late* king...

Lancelot Du Lac: My strength, from purity.

King Arthur: Well, that's a unique recipe.

Dap: He is a unique man, your majesty.

King Arthur: I have stumbled on my future. I-I-I've done - the right thing!

Lancelot Du Lac: Did you ever doubt it, your majesty?

King Arthur: Oh, of course. Of course. Only fools never doubt.

Lancelot Du Lac: I know, I know what I should do. Leave and never come back. Today. This minute. But to leave so abruptly, would seem a confession. No. Better in a week or two or a month. How can I go, Ginny? Look at you.

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.