Elijah Mikaelson quotes from The Originals

Marcel

(about Davina) She'll never trust me again.

Elijah

Perhaps. You must never surrender the fight to regain that trust.

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.

Elijah

(to Sabine) You ever experienced something so profoundly wonderful that when it was taken from you your life felt unbearable?

Yes, I have felt that. And I have the scars to prove it.

Elijah

I believe that when you love someone and that person loves you in return you're uniquely vulnerable. They have a power to hurt you that's like nothing else.

Elijah

I asked you to cease these petty moves against our family yet you conspire with this fool. Is this what it's come to, making moves against your own blood?

Rebekah

Don't you try and shame me. Nik grows more powerful by the day and you do nothing but encourage him.

Elijah

I offer him my council because it's clear to me he means to make this city our home. And perhaps leading these... derelicts will curb some of these impulses, grant him some degree of happiness.

Rebekah

You always talk of Nik's happiness, but for one-thousand years he's robbed me of any chance of my own. What about me, Elijah? Am I not a concern for you?

Elijah

We all make sacrifices in the name of this family Rebekah, but know this, I will never stand against you or Niklaus.

Rebekah

What about Hayley? Nothing I conspire to do, none of my treachery will harm this family as much as your feelings for her. You're a hypocrite, Elijah. You would chose love over family yet condemn me for doing the same.

Marcel

(about the sacrificed vampires) Back in the day, the witches wanted to send a threat, they'd just kill a chicken and leave it on your doorstep.

Elijah

That's a rather large and ominous chicken, wouldn't you say?

Marcel

They're putting eyes and ears out everywhere, daywalkers are working every contact we got, cops, dockworkers, guys in the Treme, the word is out, anyone trying to earn favor with me gets a lifetime levity if they find them.

Elijah

Good, I need a pen and paper.

Marcel

Hey, am I taking orders from you now or are we in this together?

Elijah

Pen and paper Marcel, now.

Marcel

Look, I want her back just as much as you do you know, both of them.

Hayley

You came back.

Elijah

I always come back.

Mikael

Stand with me or fall with him. (Klaus) Choose son.

Elijah

I will always choose him.

Klaus

(about Rebekah) How long do you think you can defend her?

Elijah

As long as it takes, and by whatever means necessary.

Klaus

Not a fan of cerulean blue?

Elijah

Not a fan of your continued indifference.

Elijah

(about Hayley) I have denied every single impulse that I have ever had for that woman, out of some misbegotten respect for intentions that you don't even have.

(near seething) I'm warning you!

Elijah

I'm warning you. I've forgiven you. I've stood by you. I've forsaken every single one of my desires in the name of your ridiculous redemption. No more. If I want something, I'll take it. And nothing-nothing will stand in my way.

Elijah

You look...

Hayley

A hundred months pregnant and pissed off at the world?

Elijah

I was going to say you look lovely.

Elijah

Please tell me you've designed a stronger method to control the witch than playing hard to get.

Klaus

Well I've always been partial to the classics.

Klaus

Seems rather uncivilized to laugh and dance around the body of a loved one.

Elijah

Yes, far better to practice your process of grief, Niklaus. Denial, rage, and hoarding coffins in basements.

Klaus

(looking over a tied up, beaten Jackson) Accolades to Marcel. He did quite a dance across the bridge of your nose.

Elijah

(sarcastically, opening a crate to reveal a bomb) Although he did leave us a delightful parting gift.