Celibacy wasn’t so bad. Lots of his heroes had been celibate. William of Ockham, Bede, Asser, Merlin. Well, there had been that thing with Nimue and nobody really knew about Bede, did they? Anyway.

(quoted from rosemaryandrue's most recent R/S story; which she immediately followed up with the following brainteaser: "It was all very well to be celibate if the person you wanted to be uncelibate with didn’t want to be uncelibate with you but if they were, for peculiar reasons of their own, actually unwilling to be celibate and pretending otherwise, then everything changed.")