Sir Lancelot Quotes

“Elaine turned to her father in her distress. ‘Father will you give me permission to ride after Sir Lancelot? I must reach him. Otherwise I will go out of my mind with grief.’
‘Go, good daughter. Rescue him, if you can.’
So she made herself ready for the journey, weeping all the time. Gawain himself rode back to the court of the king in London”
–The Fair Maid of Astolat”
― Peter Ackroyd, The Death of King Arthur

“I don't give a fistful of ashes!”
― Chrétien de Troyes, Lancelot: The Knight of the Cart