“Krull” quotes

“He who seeks the knowledge must lead me. No one else may approach.”
John Welsh - Seer

“Power is fleeting; love is eternal.”
Lysette Anthony - Lyssa

“- Torquil: I don't kill men without good reason.
- Prince Colwyn: Nor do I. And be thankful for it.”
Alun Armstrong - Torquil
Ken Marshall - Colwyn

“- Ergo: Wait! Wait for me. I've just remembered, I have urgent business in this direction.
- Prince Colwyn: What business?
- Ergo: Staying alive.”
David Battley - Ergo
Ken Marshall - Colwyn

“- Ynyr: I cannot stop the sand.
- Lyssa Widow of the Web: You cannot stop time. Go now. Save the other Lyssa.”

Freddie Jones - Ynyr
Francesca Annis - Widow of the Web

“- Seer: The temple is at the center of the swamp where three trees grow as one.
- Prince Colwyn: How can anything grow in that place? It smells of death.
- Ynyr: Death and power are close cousins.
- Torquil: I don't think I like your relatives, old man.”
John Welsh - Seer
Ken Marshall - Colwyn
Freddie Jones - Ynyr
Alun Armstrong - Torquil

“- Ergo: Got any sugarballs?
- Titch: No.
- Ergo: Gumdrops?
- Titch: No.
- Ergo: What kind of boy are you? Boys always have candy.”
David Battley - Ergo
Graham McGrath - Titch

“- Prince Colwyn: The forest is not safe. You best travel with us.
- Ergo: Me travel with you? Do you know who I am?
- Prince Colwyn: No.
- Ergo: I am Ergo the magnificent. Short in stature, tall in power, narrow of purpose and wide of vision. And I do not travel with peasants and beggars. Goodbye!”
Ken Marshall - Colwyn
David Battley - Ergo

“- Eirig: Can you lead this army with mine against the slayers?
- Prince Colwyn: Whatever army I have I'll lead against them. Till I've won, or am dead.”
Bernard Archard - Eirig
Ken Marshall - Colwyn

“- Turold: From this day, my kingdom is no more.
- Eirig: Nor mine.
- Turold: A single kingdom under our children.
- Eirig: Agreed.”
Tony Church - Turold
Bernard Archard - Eirig

“- Lyssa Widow of the Web: These are the sands of my life. Accept them and the spider will have no power to harm you. But your own life runs out with the sand.
- Ynyr: But what about your life?
- Lyssa Widow of the Web: I give it to the girl who bears my name.”

Francesca Annis - Widow of the Web
Freddie Jones - Ynyr

“- Titch: I'd wish for a puppy.
- Ergo: Only one puppy? If you're wishing why not wish for a hundred?
- Titch: Only want one.
- Ergo: Well that's a foolish wish. And you, Rell, what would you wish for?
- Rell the Cyclops: Ignorance.”
Graham McGrath - Titch
David Battley - Ergo
Bernard Bresslaw - Cyclops

“There are kingly virtues other than bravery. Courtesy is one of them.”
Freddie Jones - Ynyr

“If I had my wish I'd be out of this gloomy place right away. If I really had my wish I'd be sitting on top of a gooseberry pie as big as a mountain. No, that's a bit greedy. I'll settle for one as big as a house.”
David Battley - Ergo

“- Ynyr: From here, I go on alone.
- Prince Colwyn: I'm going with you.
- Ynyr: No. If two approach, she would certainly kill both. Alone, I may have a chance.
- Torquil: Each to his fate, Colwyn.
- Ynyr: Yes... Yes, each to his fate.”

Freddie Jones - Ynyr
Ken Marshall - Colwyn
Alun Armstrong - Torquil

“- Rell the Cyclops: I found the seer's body in the quicksand.
- Prince Colwyn: He gave his life for us.
- Titch: He was my only family.
- Prince Colwyn: We're your family now.”
Bernard Bresslaw - Cyclops
Ken Marshall - Colwyn
Graham McGrath - Titch

“- Ergo: Robbers.
- Prince Colwyn: They're men. We don't know yet whether they're robbers.
- Ergo: Faces that ugly could only belong to robbers. Don't worry, I'll turn them all into pigs.”

David Battley - Ergo
Ken Marshall - Colwyn

“- Princess Lyssa: My place is with you.
- Prince Colwyn: Do you love me?
- Princess Lyssa: Of course I love you.
- Prince Colwyn: Then go.”

Lysette Anthony - Lyssa
Ken Marshall - Colwyn

“Rocks in our pockets and gravestones above our heads is all we'll get from this journey.”
Robbie Coltrane - Rhun

“- Ynyr: How could I have left you?
- Lyssa Widow of the Web: Your vision is your gift to me.
- Ynyr: And your vision can be your gift to me.”

Freddie Jones - Ynyr
Francesca Annis - Widow of the Web

“- Ynyr: We three will go on. The rest will remain here.
- Ergo: We four will go on. I'm not staying behind with these criminals.”
Freddie Jones - Ynyr
David Battley - Ergo

“- Prince Colwyn: You've been with us for a long way now.
- Rell the Cyclops: Since the beginning. When I learned that the old one had come down, I knew that the time had come.
- Prince Colwyn: Join us then. All men need company.
- Rell the Cyclops: Yes, all men.”
Ken Marshall - Colwyn
Bernard Bresslaw - Cyclops

“- Princess Lyssa: My father says that good fighters make bad husbands.
- Prince Colwyn: Well, that depends.
- Princess Lyssa: On what?
- Prince Colwyn: On whether you expect a husband to follow you around. Jump every time you clap your hands.
- Princess Lyssa: Wouldn't you jump for me? No of course not. You're a warrior.”
Lysette Anthony - Lyssa
Ken Marshall - Colwyn

“- Prince Colwyn: The reward is freedom... and fame!
- Torquil: Freedom? We have it! And fame? Nah. It's an empty purse. Count it, go broke. Eat it, go hungry. Seek it, go mad!”
Ken Marshall - Colwyn
Alun Armstrong - Torquil

“- Ergo: My name is no jest, beanpole. It's all very well to have a short name when you're twenty feet tall, but small people need large names to give them weight.
- Rell the Cyclops: Your actions give you weight, my friend.”
David Battley - Ergo
Bernard Bresslaw - Cyclops