Klaus Mikaelson quotes from The Originals

Klaus Mikaelson

What could possibly be more important than the return of our mother?

Elijah Mikaelson

Our father. I saw him, standing there in the flesh as you do now. He was enslaved with some spell cast by Davina. He holds the stake. If she chooses to release him...

Klaus Mikaelson

Well, then there's only one question we need to ask, isn't there? Which of our parents do we kill first?

Klaus Mikaelson

You ruined me. You left me to suffer at the hands of a father who valued only strength.

Esther Mikaelson

I kept you from becoming a beast for as long as I possibly could.

Klaus Mikaelson

Oh, you lied to me to hide your own transgressions because of your own fear! My whole life, I sought the approval I was denied by the man I thought was my father. You turned me into the weakling he hated! Look at me! You rant, and you rage about the monster I've become, but you, mother, you are the author of everything I am.

Klaus Mikaelson

I have a rather long list of people of people I need to track down and deal with, and at the top of that list is is a certain runaway witch.

Cami O'Connell

Maybe she doesn't want to be found.

Klaus Mikaelson

And for good reason. Had I magically resurrected the insane vampire-hunting father of my sworn enemy, I'd be hiding, too.

Klaus Mikaelson

You're outnumbered. Are you going to beg for your miserable life?

Mikael

You think having people makes you strong? It proves how weak you are. Come find me when you don't have fools, women, and children fighting your battles.

Klaus Mikaelson

You've been dead a thousand years.

Ansel

And through that time, I lingered on the Other Side, watching you let the world fall apart until I woke, four moons past, in the land of wolves like myself.

Klaus Mikaelson

(in total disbelief) No. No! No, you're just in my head. You're an illusion, meant by my mother to sway me to accept her bargain!

Ansel

I do not speak for Esther. I know nothing of her bargains... But you are my son.

Hayley

(looking at Elijah's neck) Is this rash a side effect of the witchy acid trip he's on?

Klaus

I haven't seen this since I was a child. Mikael would return home from battle more blindly temperamental than usual, and our mother would use the petals of a rare merlock orchid to put him to sleep. She would mend his mind with a spell, and then wake him with the roots of the same plant.

Ansel

A thousand years estranged, and you choose to walk in silence? Surely you have questions for me.

Klaus

Just one. Is there a way to cure Elijah without having to listen to the pointless ramblings of an old man?

Ansel

I'm afraid the price of my expertise is conversation.

Klaus

(regarding the sword) I've always seen a blade to have a very different use.

Ansel

Mikael taught you to kill, Klaus. But, you were born to create. Power lies in embracing your true nature.

Klaus

How do you fell?

Elijah

The worst has past. Though, I suspect the nightmares are far from over.

Klaus

Well, gather your strength. After the message I sent Mother tonight, I expect hellfire to rain upon us imminently.

Kol

You only daggered me a dozen times. You always cared more for Marcel than you did for me.

Klaus

Well, I didn't realize I had hurt your feelings.

Kol

Yeah, well, that's the thing, innit, Nik? You don't know squat about me.

Klaus

(holding a pair of spelled-manacles) So, brother-- ready to embrace your new life of freedom?

Finn

I'm already free, brother.

Klaus

You're aware our mother cares nothing for you?

Finn

Niklaus, I assure you, my mother loves me. She loves all of her children. You would not exist without her sacrifice.

Finn

Do you even know the truth? That she was barren? And she grew so desperate for a family that she begged one of the most powerful witches in history for help. Her sister, Dahlia. Of course, Dahlia's price was high. She agreed to make our mother fertile, but in exchange, she sought the first-born as sacrifice. Having no other choice, our mother gave away our beloved Freya.

Klaus

(not believing) Our sister died of plague.

Finn

Esther gave her away. Think about that. The pain, the grief?

Klaus

If what you say is true, then death is far too delicate a fate for her.

Finn

She loves us more than you realize.

Klaus

And is love the reason she wanted my child dead?

Finn

She was trying to protect you from Dahlia's curse!

Klaus

(angrily shouting) What curse?!?

Finn

Dahlia demanded the first-born of every generation. Had your child lived, she would have paid the price! And, if anyone had tried to protect her, Dahlia would come and destroy us all.

Kol

: For the record, I didn't know a bloody thing about Mother's plan for Cami, I swear.

Klaus

Well, I think I can judge for myself which of her schemes she would entrust to you, and which she would not.

Hayley

Klaus, have you seen Elijah? There's something I need to tell you both.

Klaus

(starts walking away) You can tell me on the way.

Hayley

What? Where are we going?

Klaus

(stops and turns toward her) To see our daughter.

Klaus Mikaelson

You are not leaving this bloody house, Marcel!

Marcel Gerard

My enlistment papers say otherwise. They call them the Harlem Hellfighters. Boat leaves tomorrow.

Klaus Mikaelson

Is this lunacy because I forbid you to be with Rebekah? So now you're going off to fight the Germans. Fine. Go, but remember, Marcel, this is your home. I am your family, and if you haven't learned that in the century since I took you in, then learn it now! Family are not just people who coddle you, who grant you your every whim. They are people who fight for you, who you fight for, and if this family endeavors to stop you from making a tragic error of the heart, then, by all means, express your discontent, but what you do not do is abandon us! [beat] Fine. Go. You'll be back. The prodigal son always returns home.