Knight Quotes
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I want to be a knight, as my father was.
Kaspar Hauser
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You've always been your own knight, riding to your rescue. I'm just the man who came along and saw how brightly your armor shone.
Courtney Milan
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The mounted knight is irresistible; he would bore his way through the walls of Babylon.
Anna Komnene
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The very purpose of a knight is to fight on behalf of a lady.
Thomas Malory
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A knight whose heart is set upon the Way, but who is ashamed of wearing shabby clothes and eating coarse food, is not worth calling into counsel.
Confucius
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This knight so bold— And o’er his heart a shadow— Fell as he found No spot of ground That looked like Eldorado. And, as his strength Failed him at length, He met a pilgrim shadow— ‘Shadow,’ said he, ‘Where can it be— This land of Eldorado?’ ‘Over the Mountains Of the Moon, Down the Valley of the Shadow, Ride, boldly ride,’ The shade replied,— ‘If you seek for Eldorado!
Edgar Allan Poe
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With that truncheon thou hast slain a good knight, and now it sticketh in thy body.
Thomas Malory
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To refer to the oft mooted question, "Which piece is stronger, the Bishop or the Knight?" it is clear that the value of the Bishop undergoes greater changes than that of the Knight.
Emanuel Lasker
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Comes now a smiling New-Born Year To fill to-day with goodly cheer— An infant hale and lusty. Upon our door-sill he is left By Daddy Time, of clothes bereft Despite the season gusty. If he be Churl or doughty Knight, A Son of Darkness or of Light No man can tell, God bless him! But be he base or glorious Time puts it wholly up to us To dress him!
John Kendrick Bangs
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I feel like the knight in an ancient romance as, wrapped in his shining armor, after performing a thousand astonishing feats throughout the world, he meets a ragged, starving herdsman, who, never leaving his pasture, subdues and controls horrible beasts with his bare hands, and with prodigious courage.
Elena Ferrante
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She hath no loyal knight and true, The Lady of Shalott.
Alfred Lord Tennyson
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To have a knight planted in your game at K6 is worse than a rusty nail in your knee.
Efim Bogoljubov
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Beware, gentle knight - the greatest monster of them all is reason.
Miguel de Cervantes
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The knight departing for new adventures offends his lady, yet she has nothing but contempt for him if he remains at her feet.
Simone de Beauvoir
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I’ve been shot at, hacked at, pummelled with catapult-stones, doused in flaming oil, tipped into drowning-pits, even covered by a landslide. I’ve seen every kind of violence humans know how to wreak, and I have learnt that you are creatures beyond cruel, beyond vengeful, beyond dishonest. So, yes, Knight. You are all villains in my mind.
Ben Galley
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I've been waiting nearly twenty years to have my own light saber. Nothing's cooler than being a Jedi Knight.
Ewan McGregor
