Korean Drama Quotes - The Moon Embracing The Sun (2012)

Title: 해를 품은 달 / The Moon Embracing The Sun
Broadcast period: January 4 - March 15, 2012
Cast: Kim Soo Hyun, Han Ga In, Jung Il Woo, Kim Min Seo, Song Jae Hee, Song Jae Rim, Yoon Seung Ah, Nam Bo Ra.
Child cast: Kim Yoo Jung, Yeo Jin Goo, Lee Min Ho, Kim So Hyun, Siwan

The Moon That Embraces The Sun Drama Quotes

EPISODE  1

Neither the fact that you were born a legitimate son, nor the fact that your brother was born an illegitimate son, were decisions you could make yourself. So then, why are you blaming yourself? 

Heo Yeon Woo

The farmers don't blame their fields, and musicians don't blame their instruments.
The problem is in one's own self, and not in whom one faces. 

Heo Yeon Woo

With no heated debate, how am I to break through the walls that limit us?
Without doubt and questioning, how am I to really know this world?

Crown Prince Lee Hwon

EPISODE 2

+Queen Dowager: Do you know what the bonsai's charm is, Personnel Minister?

-Personnel Minister: Isn't it the opportunity to take a sapling and raise it into the form of your liking?

+ Queen Dowager: That's correct. But you see, about the bonsai... It's really harder than it looks. Because if you miss the right timing, it's going to be really hard to shape it into the form you want.

When you look at it from the eyes of a child, the entire world can become a problem, and the entire world can become the answer.

Heo Yeom

There are two important things for learning.

One is you have to lose the arrogance that you know the answer to everything, and the other is answering the questions from your pride and bias. That pride and bias is making Your Highness's eyes, heart, and everything dark.

Heo Yeom

But, having your eyelids closed tightly, how are you going to observe the citizens' well-being?
How are you going to become king? 

Heo Yeom

The road to being a treacherous subject is easy, and the road to being a loyal subject is hard.

Heo Yeon Woo

A monk who lived in the mountains wanted to have the moonlight. So he gathered the moonlight in a bottle. He went back to the temple and realized that when the bottle was emptied, the moonlight is gone.

A bottled up moonlight is impossible to have.

Heo Yeon Woo

EPISODE 3

Even if it is your enemy, on the outside, you must bite your tongue. You must never show your true feelings or allow anyone to discover them. That is politics.

Yoon Dae Hyung

+Heo Yeon Woo: Even when those closest to him asked what trees grew in the greenhouse, it is said that Kong Guang would never answer.

-The King: What is the meaning of the tale and phrase?

+Heo Yeon Woo: It means that matters regarding the palace and the court must never be spread outside the palace walls.

If the heavens have already determined what shall be, it is up to the people now to make it so. Do all we can and only then, leave the rest to the heavens.

Queen Dowager

EPISODE 4

A woman's jealousy is one of the seven valid reasons to divorce a wife.

Crown Prince Lee Hwon

A piece that has been placed cannot be taken back or moved.
A person's heart is the same.
A heart that has been placed cannot easily be moved.

Heo Yeon Woo

Regardless of the era, consulting the public is the way to obtain the consenting hearts of the people. Where there is public consultation, even the lower class cannot be treated lightly. And where there is no public consultation, even the words of the highest officials have no weight.

Minister

One day, a man named Geung Ja sought out Confucius and said,...

"Master, won't you praise me? My father beat me for no particular reason today, and I just bore it, staying still. Wasn't that commendable?"

Then, do you know what Confucius said?

"You fool. If you were to die, your father would have become a murderer of his own son. What a huge travesty of filial devotion that would be. When your father beats you without a reason, you must run away."

Prince Yang Myung

To the people that are starving and dressed in rags, there is nothing more earnestly valued than one nyang.

A wealthy man who has ten thousand nyang doesn't know how precious one nyang is, but a poor man who has nothing knows piercingly well how precious one nyang is.

To the poor, Your Majesty is as acutely precious as one nyang.

Heo Yeon Woo

EPISODE 5

When you have wings, not being able to fly is the greatest pain of all.

Yoon Dae Hyung