Prince Colwyn Quotes in Krull (1983)

Prince Colwyn: The reward is freedom... and fame!

Torquil: Freedom? We have it! And fame? Nah. It's an empty purse. Count it, go broke. Eat it, go hungry. Seek it, go mad!

Seer: The temple is at the center of the swamp where three trees grow as one.

Prince Colwyn: How can anything grow in that place? It smells of death.

Ynyr: Death and power are close cousins.

Torquil: I don't think I like your relatives, old man.

Prince Colwyn: The forest is not safe. You best travel with us.

Ergo: Me travel with you? Do you know who I am?

Prince Colwyn: No.

Ergo: I am Ergo the magnificent. Short in stature, tall in power, narrow of purpose and wide of vision. And I do not travel with peasants and beggars. Goodbye!

Prince Colwyn: You've been with us for a long way now.

Rell the Cyclops: Since the beginning. When I learned that the old one had come down, I knew that the time had come.

Prince Colwyn: Join us then. All men need company.

Rell the Cyclops: Yes, all men.

[they shake hands]

Princess Lyssa: My father says that good fighters make bad husbands.

Prince Colwyn: Well, that depends.

Princess Lyssa: On what?

Prince Colwyn: On whether you expect a husband to follow you around. Jump every time you clap your hands.

Princess Lyssa: Wouldn't you jump for me? No of course not. You're a warrior.

Ynyr: The beast has many weapons. This was one of them. A changeling.

[Looks at Rell]

Ynyr: How did you know?

Rell the Cyclops: I found the seer's body in the quicksand.

Prince Colwyn: He gave his life for us.

Titch: He was my only family.

Prince Colwyn: We're your family now.

[Ynyr leaves to go see The Widow of the Web]

Ynyr: From here, I go on alone.

Prince Colwyn: I'm going with you.

Ynyr: No. If two approach, she would certainly kill both. Alone, I may have a chance.

Torquil: Each to his fate, Colwyn.

Ynyr: Yes... Yes, each to his fate.

[Ynyr has fixed Colwyn's wounds and starts to leave]

Prince Colwyn: Lyssa?

Ynyr: They will hold her in the Black Fortress.

Prince Colwyn: Can you lead me to it?

Ynyr: You must have help.

Prince Colwyn: I'll find men on the way.

Prince Colwyn: Who are you?

Ynyr: I am Ynyr.

Prince Colwyn: The old one?

Ynyr: Well, not as old as all that.

Prince Colwyn: You've come down from the Granite Mountains?

Ynyr: Yes. I'm needed now.

Ergo: Wait! Wait for me. I've just remembered, I have urgent business in this direction.

Prince Colwyn: What business?

Ergo: Staying alive.

Torquil: [Colwyn gives the king's key to Torquil to rid himself of his manacles] I thought I might keep them as a momento of our journey.

Prince Colwyn: Well, the key is yours.

Torquil: Only the king and his Lord Marshall carry this key!

Prince Colwyn: Right.

[Torquil laughs realizing he's just been appointed Lord Marshall]

Ergo: There was a difference of opinion concerning a gooseberry pie. The man left it sitting on his windowsill. What did he expect?

Prince Colwyn: Perhaps he expected to eat it.

Eirig: We sent to you for help.

Turold: None came.

Eirig: Twenty men were dispatched to you.

Turold: We lost three hundred getting here.

Eirig: I didn't choose this marriage, Turold.

Turold: Nor did I Eirig.

Prince Colwyn: I chose it. Your daughter chose it. It'll be done.

Eirig: Can you lead this army with mine against the slayers?

Prince Colwyn: Whatever army I have I'll lead against them. Till I've won, or am dead.

[Colwyn and Ergo meet Torquil and his gang for the first time]

Ergo: Robbers.

Prince Colwyn: They're men. We don't know yet whether they're robbers.

Ergo: Faces that ugly could only belong to robbers. Don't worry, I'll turn them all into pigs.

[Slayers are attacking the castle]

Prince Colwyn: The slayers.

Turold: Arm yourselves.

Princess Lyssa: We'll fight together.

Prince Colwyn: No. Is there a safe way out of the castle?

Eirig: An underground passage.

[Lyssa hugs her father]

Eirig: Go!

[Colwyn and Lyssa are trying to escape from the slayers]

Princess Lyssa: My place is with you.

Prince Colwyn: Do you love me?

Princess Lyssa: Of course I love you.

Prince Colwyn: Then go.

[they kiss]

Princess Lyssa: Colwyn, hurry back to me.

[Colwyn and Lyssa meet for the first time]

Princess Lyssa: I've chosen well.

Prince Colwyn: So have I.

Prince Colwyn: Lyssa!

Ynyr: She's alive.

Prince Colwyn: Where?

Ynyr: Stay still.

Prince Colwyn: Where?

Ynyr: For now, beyond your reach.

Ynyr: Well, I too was young once. I too loved as you do. But your love will be luckier than mine. What I told you was that I knew how to find the fortress and that is by seeking the vision of the blind emerald seer.

Prince Colwyn: But his place isn't known either.

Ynyr: It is known to me. It is a day's journey from here. Come.

Torquil: I don't kill men without good reason.

Prince Colwyn: Nor do I. And be thankful for it.

Torquil: Silence! You're surrounded by a hundred men.

Prince Colwyn: A hundred is not enough.

Torquil: Well what have we here? A fighter?

Prince Colwyn: Besides you're short by about ninety men.

Prince Colwyn: Would you follow a king to the black fortress?

Torquil: Now I know you're a lunatic. I wouldn't follow me own father to the black fortress.

Velta: You must eat something.

Prince Colwyn: I'm not hungry.

Velta: Please. For me?

[Colwyn accepts]

Prince Colwyn: Thank you.

Velta: Let me comfort you.

Prince Colwyn: I can't accept comfort when she has none.

Velta: You'll not then?

Prince Colwyn: I cannot.

[Velta blinks her eyes and reveals that she's a changling]

Velta: My master says make him betray her. If not, then kill him. Yes, he is my master. These talons were a heartbeat away from your throat. I could've killed you in an instant... but in the hour that I knew you, I loved you.

Prince Colwyn: Now we have no way to find the fortress.

Ynyr: There is one who might help.

Prince Colwyn: Who?

Ynyr: The Widow of the Web.

Torquil: That creature helps no one. For none who go there return.

Ynyr: She has great powers.

Torquil: Yeah, to kill.

Ynyr: She may not kill me. For I know her name.

Torquil: Her name is death.

Ynyr: She had another name once. An ancient and powerful name.

[Torquil has a look of disbelief and this gets Ynyr mad]

Ynyr: We all risk our lives on this journey. My risk is no greater than yours. I must try.

Ynyr: Do not use it until you need it.

Prince Colwyn: How will I know when?

Ynyr: You'll know.

Prince Colwyn: The glave is nothing but an ancient symbol. It doesn't really exist.

Ynyr: It exists. Up there in a cave on the highest peak.

Torquil: Only the king and his lord marshall have the keys to these manicles. You don't look like the lord marshall.

Prince Colwyn: No.

Torquil: You look about the right age to be Turold's son.

Prince Colwyn: Exact age.

Rell the Cyclops: I must remain here.

Prince Colwyn: Is it time?

Prince Colwyn: [Rell nodds] You've done enough Rell. Stay here.

Rell the Cyclops: [they shake hands] Each to his fate.

Prince Colwyn: Each to his fate.

Prince Colwyn: [looking at Torquil and his men] You're escaped prisoners

Torquil: Every one of us. Thieves, fighters, bandits and brawlers!