Pellinore Forgive the interruption. Anyone here seen a beast with the head of a serpent, the body of a boar and the tail of a lion, baying like forty hounds?
Played by Lionel Jeffries 
Camelot (1967) · 32 quotes
Camelot (1967) · 32 quotes
4th most-quoted character in Camelot (1967): in 3 of its 32 quotes
Most scenes with: King Arthur (2)
Scenes with Pellinore
3 scenes Pellinore 
Let us say you are accused of burning down a farm.
Pellinore Whose?
Er...let us say, a farmer named...William?
Pellinore Well, can't see it happening, but get along.
Now, Pelly, you claim you haven't. What does he do then?
Pellinore Well, he keeps his mouth shut if he knows what's good for him!
No, Pellinore. He takes you to court.
Pellinore Ah! And we fight there!
No, Pellinore. Look, in the court, there is a prosecutor for Farmer William and a defendant for you.
Pellinore Oh, I see! I see! And they fight!
No. In the court there is also a jury, who decides whether you are guilty or not guilty.
Pellinore Well, what's the jury got to do with it? None of their damn business in the first place! Any jury finds me guilty, I'll have a whack at every last one of 'em!
Then you'd be charged with murder, Pelly!
Pellinore Well, the ruddy thing's endless! Another jury finds me guilty, and I'll have to have a whack at them! And so on and so on, and whacking and whacking--
Oh, Pellinore, forget it! You will never burn down a barn, you will never know a farmer named William and you will never, ever, be found in a court!
Pellinore Not without my ruddy sword I won't!
Pellinore Who is that, Arthur?
One of what we all are, Pelly. Less than a drop in the great blue motion of the sunlit sea. But it seems some of the drops sparkle, Pelly. Some of them do sparkle! Run, boy!
