Klaus Mikaelson quotes from The Originals

Jackson Kenner

You don't know a damn thing about being a wolf.

Klaus Mikaelson

No. I don't. I never had the luxury to live among my kind nor the chance to truly know my father, but you knew him. Perhaps he saw in you the son he always wanted. I'm glad I was spared such a sorry fate.

Hayley Marshall

I know this wedding can work. We can bring our little girl home. But you have to trust me.

Klaus Mikaelson

I do trust you. More than you know. (breaks Hayley's neck) Just I don't trust Jackson.

Rebekah Mikaelson

[on a painting of her] That is just not my chin, Nik. It was much more delicate.

Klaus Mikaelson

The only delicate thing about you, sister, is your ego.

Rebekah Mikaelson

When placed beside the behemoth size of yours, certainly.

Klaus Mikaelson

This spell that Finn cast to lock you in your body, do you remember it?

Kol Mikaelson

Well, I was a little distracted by the murdery part.

Kol Mikaelson

Oh, you're angry, are you? Well, join the party! I've been here a thousand years! I was building that dagger to protect myself against you, Nik. I'm not the bad guy in this chapter of our family's story. I'm the wronged; I'm the dead but never mourned, and whilst you got everything that you wanted, I got a family who didn't care if I lived or if I died.

Klaus Mikaelson

Oh, shut up! [shoves Kol against wall] We've all suffered! We've all been wronged!

Kol Mikaelson

Go on! Go on and finish it off! Go on and kill me!

Klaus Mikaelson

[drops Kol] I'm not gonna kill you, you idiot! Despite your behavior, you're still my brother.

Kol Mikaelson

Yeah… just the one you dagger repeatedly.

Klaus Mikaelson

I've daggered all of you! Each for you own good! If you don't agree with my motives, fine - I never claimed to be the bastion of temperance but stop this drivel about being singled out and unloved. You are a Mikaelson! You're my blood. And I need you… I need you by my side.

Kol Mikaelson

What does it even mean, Nik? Hmm? You talk about family; family this, family that. I haven't earned the right to share your secrets, have I?

Klaus Mikaelson

No, you haven't. But by all means, brother, prove yourself. It's not too late.

Klaus Mikaelson

You know, you are a brave and selfless leader, Jackson, and I'm positive you'll remain so for the entire duration of your reign. Festivities begin at 8:00 at my compound. Spread the word and do arrive early enough to clean yourself up. It's your wedding day for God's sake.

Jackson Kenner

[to Aiden] Am I crazy, or did he just do his version of a nice thing?

Kol Mikaelson

I think I want to be alone for this bit.

Elijah Mikaelson

I'm afraid that's not an option.

Klaus Mikaelson

Always and forever is not just something weasel out of, brother.

Klaus Mikaelson

Your mind always drifts to violence, doesn't it, even when you're so clearly outmatched. What was it you tried teaching us? Ah, yes, £the true viking warrior hones his fear like a blade"!

Mikael

Did you come here to critique my parenting skills or to whine about how little you were loved? You were weak before, but you are weaker still. If you truly thought me weak, you would snatch this weapon from my hand, but you don't because you know better.

Klaus Mikaelson

Davina, whatever you may think of me, I am a man of my word.

Mikael

Actually, he's a liar, a beast, and a degenerate, but in this exceptional instance, he may be of some use.

Klaus Mikaelson

You just wouldn't be you if you didn't have a knife, would you?

Mikael

Well, perhaps you can steal it later and dull its blade with your art.

Mikael

Betrayal is in your nature, boy.

Klaus Mikaelson

No. I wasn't born like this. Her, you fight for. Lovely Freya, the daughter you barely know. Yet there was a time when you knew me as your son, a time before all the disappointments, the revelations of betrayal. There were moments when all you had to do was be my father, and even then, you despised me, didn't you? I want to know why.

Mikael

I don't know. I just did.

Klaus Mikaelson

Are those your final words?

Mikael

[looking at Freya] Freya, I'm so sorry. I love you.

Tell me you didn't do it. Tell me you didn't kill that sweet boy.

Klaus Mikaelson

Camille

They said you admitted it.

Klaus Mikaelson

Then why even come here? To see for yourself, morbid curiosity, a new piece of the puzzle in your long-standing analysis of the immortal bastard? If I tell you who I am, and you refuse to believe me, then I can hardly be blamed for your disappointment.

I wish I did believe you, and you know what? Maybe you were right, maybe about everything, even Freya. Maybe she's not what she seems. Maybe she is out to get you and twisting everyone against you, and maybe she is this terrible person, but you know what she didn't do, Klaus? She didn't just kill Aiden. She didn't just murder an innocent guy.

Klaus Mikaelson

And neither did I!

What? Why did you tell them that you did?

Klaus Mikaelson

If I have spilled Crescent blood, then Hayley will be forced to question her pack's loyalty to Hope, and she will not run.

But if they don't protect her, then who.

Klaus Mikaelson

Only I can save her, and I need them to fear me!

Am I supposed to fear you, too?

Klaus Mikaelson

It would be better for you if you did, for you to believe I am the monster they would paint me as. And then one day when all of this was past, I might find you and profess my innocence, and because you are you, you would believe me, and we would pass a perfect afternoon in a corner cafe together. And I would wish for nothing more... A better man would protect you with that lie, but I am not that man, and so I leave you with the burden of a truth that no one will believe.