The Once and Future King (The Once and Future King, #1-4)

by T.H. White

“Oh, I am not going to have a wife. I think they are stupid.

“I don’t want to hear it any more. You sing it very well, but I don’t want it again. Uncurl, you idiot, and tell me where you learned to sing.”

Lancelot, swinging his dumb-bells fiercely and making his wordless noise, had been thinking of King Arthur with all his might. He was in love with him.

You know what this should've been the actual plot

“Really, you must not go for a woman like that. I don’t care whose fault it is, but you can’t kill women.” “Since when?”

GUENEVER HAD OVERDRESSED for the occasion. She had put on a make-up which she did not need, and put it on badly. She was forty-two.

After all, it is a compliment to be kidnapped for love, especially when all ends happily.

Even if they were foolish enough to believe that the earth was the centre of the universe, do we not ourselves believe that man is the fine flower of creation?

“No. I was never so happy in my life. And I dare say I shall never be so happy again.” “Why so happy?” “I don’t know. It is because the spring has come after all, and there is the bright summer in front of us.

Women always want everything.”