sentence starters from the musical CAMELOT, by lerner & loewe
a warrior who's so calm in battle faces a woman petrified with fright?
and from now on i intend to pray to someone else instead!
shan't i be young before i'm old?
am i never to know the joys of maidenhood? the conventional, ordinary, garden variety joys of maidenhood?
how dare you insult me in this fashion. do my looks repel you?
what a dream you spin, and how easily i could be caught up in it.
i know it gives a person pause.
that's how i became king. i never knew i would be. i never wanted to be.
marriage is rather frightening, isn't it?
war? over me? how simply marvelous!
it's all gone. my magic is gone.
i can only wish for you in ignorance, like everyone else.
proposition: it's far better to be alive than dead.
and here i stand with valor untold, exceptionally brave, amazingly bold.
the soul of a knight should be a thing remarkable, his heart and his mind as pure as morning dew
had i been made the partner of eve, we'd be in eden still.
i worship you before knowing you.
oh, i beg you to forgive me. not because i deserve it, but because by forgiving me, i'll suffer more.
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?
tell me, milord, have you come to grips with humility lately?
all my life i've locked the world out. and, you know, when you lock the world out, you're locked in.
i have so much forgetting to do.
surely i may arrange for your knighthood now. unfortunately, sainthood is not in my power.
i shan't be wounded and not return it in kind.
can passion be selected?
the adage "blood is thicker than water" was invented by undeserving relatives.
it's not the earth the meek inherit, it's the dirt.
fie on goodness!
i loved you once in silence, and misery was all i knew.
oh, the insensitivity of sensitive men!
if i escape, i shall come and rescue you.
treason has been committed! the jury has ruled! let justice be done.
well, you're human after all, aren't you? human and helpless.
how did you think you could survive without being as ruthless as i?
goodbye, my love. my dearest love.
i intend to be a knight.
think back on all the tales that you remember.
battle? i've won my battle. here is my victory!