Lancelot quotes

   And so at that tyme sir Launcelot had the grettyste name ofony knyght oftheworlde, and mostehewashonoured of hyghe and lowe.

- SirThomas   d.1471 Malory
c.1470  Morte d'Arthur, bk.6, ch.18.

A bow-shot from her bower-eaves, He rode between the barley-sheaves, The sun came dazzling through the leaves, And flamed upon the brazen greaves Of bold Sir Lancelot. A red-cross knight forever kneeled To a lady in his shield, That sparkled on the yellow field, Beside remote Shalott.

-Tennyson
  Poems,'The Lady of Shalott' (revised1842), pt.3, l.73^81.

But Lancelot mused a little space; He said,'She has a lovely face; God in his mercy lend her grace, The Lady of Shalott.'

-Tennyson
  Poems,'The Lady of Shalott' (revised1842), pt.4, l.168^71.

I thought I could not breathe in that fine air That pure severity of perfect light I yearned for warmth and colour which I found In Lancelot.

-Tennyson
  Idylls of the King,'Guinevere', l.640^3.

It was my duty to have loved the highest; It surely was my profit had I known: It would have been my pleasure had I seen. We needs must love the highest when we see it, Not Lancelot, nor another.

-Tennyson
  Idylls of the King,'Guinevere', l.652^6.