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Unintentional Reminiscences I

Susan in The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe:

Peter, just because some man in a red coat gives you a sword it doesn’t make you a hero!

Dennis in Monty Python and the Holy Grail:

Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government. Supreme executive power derives from a mandate from the masses, not from some farcical aquatic ceremony…you can’t expect to wield supreme executive power just because some watery tart threw a sword at you…I mean, if I went round saying I was an emperor just because some moistened bint had lobbed a scimitar at me, they’d put me away