Guinevere
If there is any honor in you, promise me never to do that again.
Lancelot
I don't know about honor. But I promise you, I won't kiss you again till you ask me to.
Played by Julia Ormond 
First Knight (1995) · 13 quotes
First Knight (1995) · 13 quotes
I only know one way to love my lord, and that is body and mind and soul.
Scenes with Guinevere
3 scenes Guinevere
Malagant
[At a meeting of the Knights of the Round Table...]
May I congratulate the king on his forthcoming marriage. [points to the empty seat] I see my place hasn't been taken yet. [sets his sword down on the table] To think that I was once first among your knights.
Arthur
You left this council of your own free will.
Malagant
We each of us must follow our own road, my lord, and mine had further to go.
Arthur
And where does your road take you, Malagant? To Lyonesse?
Malagant
[innocently]
Lyonesse is my neighbor! I've offered the lady a treaty of friendship. I still await an answer.
Guinevere
You call burning villages an act of friendship?
Malagant
Oh yes, my lady. Since your honored father's death, your land has been more lawless by the day. Were you yourself not attacked on the road here?
Guinevere
You know who attacked me.
Malagant
I made it my business to know. The bandits have been hunted down. Justice has been done.
Guinevere
[angrily]
What justice? You know no law higher than yourself!
Arthur
[reading]
"Armed forces to be given access to all Lyonesse. Troops to assist in the enforcement of law in all Lyonesse." [to Guinevere] Do you want to sign this?
Guinevere
I'll never sign it.
Arthur
There's your answer. She says no.
Malagant
She's very brave. Now she's to be married. So, is Lyonesse to come under the protection of Camelot?
Arthur
Is Lyonesse in need of protection?
Malagant
[scoffs]
Come, Arthur. I'm here to settle this business. We both know Lyonesse is too weak to stand alone. Let's say half each. The lesser gives way to the greater, and what nation could be greater than Camelot, the land of justice and the hope of mankind? Come. Your hand on it. We'll all live together as friends.
Arthur
[hands his treaty back]
You offer me what isn't yours to give.
Malagant
[to the rest of the council]
You all know me. You know I'm a man of my word. Don't make an enemy of me. I mean no harm to Camelot.
Arthur
[rises]
You know the law we live by. And where is it written, "Beyond Camelot live lesser people, people too weak to protect themselves; let them die", hmm?
Malagant
Other people live by other laws, Arthur. Or is the law of Camelot to rule the entire world?
Arthur
There are laws that enslave men, and laws that set them free. Either what we hold to be right and good and true is right and good and true, for all mankind, under God, or we're just another robber tribe.
Malagant
Your fine words are talking you out of peace and into war.
Arthur
There's a peace that's only to be found on the other side of war. If that battle must come, I will fight it!
Sir Agravaine
And I! [the other knights echo him]
Malagant
[contemptuous]
The great Arthur... and his great dream. No dream lasts forever.
Arthur
[Malagant's men have interrupted Lancelot's execution and demands fealty from King Arthur]
I have no pride left in me. What I do, now I do for my people and for Camelot. And may they forgive me. This is my last act as your king. Do not be afraid. All things change. [thrusts sword onto the ground] I am Arthur of Camelot, and I command you now... all... [kneels but suddenly rises with sword] TO FIGHT!! [everybody is surprised and Malagant's men draw swords too] Fight like you've never fought before! Never surrender! Never surrender! Fight as you never- [gets shot by several crossbow bolts; loses sword]
Guinevere
NO!!!
Arthur
[as the knights get him out of danger]
CAMELOT LIVES!!!! [the citizens and knights start attacking Malagant's troops]
Malagant
BURN IT! BURN EVERYTHING!
