“Then it is better, sir, to love whom one cannot have?""Probably better," Lancelot said. "Certainly safer.”

“I'm not sure if it's better to be alone but it's probably safer.”

“Thus did I bear Sir Lancelot de Lac to the Keep of Ganleon, whom I trusted like a brother. That is to say, not at all.”

“...and there encountered with him all at once Sir Bors, Sir Ector, and Sir Lionel, and they three smote him at once with their spears, and with force of themselves they smote Sir Lancelot's horse reverse to the earth. And by misfortune Sir Bors smote Sir Lancelot through the shield into the side...”

“One friend with whom you have a lot in common is better than three with whom you struggle to find things to talk about.”

“This raises the question whether it is better to be loved than feared, or the contrary. My reply is that I would like to be both but as it is difficult to combine love and fear, if one has to choose between them it is far safer to be feared than loved”