Klaus Mikaelson quotes from The Originals

Klaus

The world is an awful place. Best to meet it on its own terms.

Cami

No, the world isn't awful. People are not awful. They want to be good. Something makes them bad. Something breaks them down, makes them snap.

Klaus

A mutual law of nature, Marcel, is the strong always take from the weak.

Marcel

Well, if you were so strong you wouldn't have run away from New Orleans like a little bitch all those years ago.

Klaus

Well, how may I ask was this particular vision interpreted?

Sophie

Pretty much that your baby would bring death to all witches.

Klaus

Oh well, I grow fonder of this child by the second.

Klaus

We had a deal! You protect my unborn child, I dismantle Marcel's army. And whilst I've been busy fulfilling my part of the bargain, you allowed Hayley to be attacked and almost killed by a gaggle of lunatic witches.

Sophie

I had nothing to do with it, I swear. Hayley and I are linked, remember? She dies, I die.

Rebekah

What the bloody hell is a Harvest?

Sophie

It's a ritual our coven does every three centuries, so that the bond to our ancestral magic is restored. We appease our ancestors, they keep our ancestral power flowing.

Klaus

Any why haven't I heard of this?

Sophie

Because a Harvest always seemed like a myth. A story, passed on through generations like Noah's ark, or the Buddha walking on water. The kind some people take literally, and some people don't.

Marcel

Well, this might spice things up. I just heard about a bunch of dead witches out in the bayou. The kind of damage a werewolf might do, only there was no full moon. I have an informant out there I need to meet and I would love for you to go with me.

Klaus

Dead witches in the bayou. Sounds like less of a problem, and more like a cause for celebration.

Marcel

Well, something killed them. And may still be out there. And with your blood the only cure for a werewolf bite, I would love for you to accompany me.

Klaus

(about the Harvest) You're the one who stopped it.

Marcel

Kieran knew every detail from Sophie. After his nephew's massacre in the church, he was so torn up. He left town just before the Harvest. But on his way out, he came to me, and he asked me to stop the Harvest. He knew I didn't want the witches getting any more power. And I do have a rule about people abusing kids, so, I did what he asked.

Klaus

You do realize they can hear you.

Elijah

You do realize I don't care.

Klaus

(to Elijah, about Hayley) She's adored you since she arrived and now my child, my blood will grow up to call you father.

Rebekah

Is that what it is? You are once again worried that you will be left behind? Has history taught you nothing? We don't abandon you, Nik. You drive us away!

Klaus

In the one moment when you two could have chosen to stand by me, to believe in me, believe my intentions for my own child were pure, you chose to stand against me. To side with my enemies. I wanted our home back, and now I have it. So I'm going to live there. And the two of you can stay together here and rot.

Elijah

You don't make it easy to love you, brother.

Klaus

And yet you are obstinate in your desire to do so

Marcel

(to Klaus) You compelled her to go out with me, didn't you? (to Cami) And I thought you really liked me.

Cami

So did I.

Klaus

Well, I mean, to be clear. I only compelled you to give him a chance. Anything you felt for him was quite real. And for the record, the level of awkwardness we're all currently experiencing is entirely genuine.

Klaus

(about the extreme weather caused my Davina's power) Ah, that's going well.

Elijah

If you were trying to win the girl's trust. Perhaps poisoning her one true love was not the most splendid idea.

Klaus

Well, are there any more inopportune deaths you'd like to wave in my face?

Elijah

Give me a month. I'll get you a list. (thundering in the background)

Klaus

(sighs) Young, old, dead or alive, witches are a pain in the ass.

Father Kieran

(seeing the alter) You've got to be kidding me.

Klaus

A vampire is trying to reverse a witch's hex placed on you and it's the cup you find sacrilegious?

Cami

(pushing him back down) Be a good little boy and get back into bed.

Klaus

(weakly) If I had a quid for every time a woman tried that line on me...

Cami

You'd have, like, no money.

Klaus

Oh, I beg to differ. Some women actually find me quite charming.

Klaus

So Mikael If you're going to kill me, then get on with it.

Mikael

Au contraire, Niklaus. Some things remain unsaid. For instance, you were right to be proud of your achievement here. As I walked the streets, your name was spoken of in reverent tones by the city's finest. So after I kill you, I will remain here in New Orleans until every last person who remembers you is dead. The deeds of the mighty Klaus will be remembered by no one. And you, boy, will simply never have existed.