Knights Quotes · Page 4

Knight takes Knight,” I called into the cloudy night air. “Check.

— Jim Butcher

To have a knight planted in your game at K6 is worse than a rusty nail in your knee.

— Efim Bogoljubov

Earth is a merry damsel, and heaven a knight so true

— Emily Dickinson

Knighthood lies above eternity; it doesn’t live off fame, but rather deeds.

— Dejan Stojanovic

There isn't a woman player in the world I can't give knight-odds to and still beat.

— Bobby Fischer

Howard Dean is narrowing the field of potential running mates. It's down to Mike Tyson or Bobby Knight.

— Craig Kilborn

With that truncheon thou hast slain a good knight, and now it sticketh in thy body.

— Thomas Malory

“In the songs, the knights never screamed nor begged for mercy.”

— George R.R. Martin

God bless ABC. They are my knights in shining armor. I love their content. Just as a person, I'm a huge fan…

— Jaime Ray Newman

He was so far from the gallant knights in her romantic fantasies...He was tarnished, scarred, imperfect.

— Lisa Kleypas

In times gone by there lived a Count of Ponthieu, who loved chivalry and the pleasures of the world beyond measure, and…

— Marie de France

Am I going to have to carry you? If so, it would complete my badass knight-in-shining-armor act with you today.

— J. Lynn

The world's male chivalry has perished out, but women are knights-errant to the last; and, if Cervantes had been greater still, he…

— Elizabeth Barrett Browning

“The table was covered with food like roast chicken, roast potatoes, roast parsnips, roast turkey, roast liquorice and, the centrepiece, a roasted…

— Elias Zapple

“She would but be repaid by my taking her to wife, and that I could not grant her, for love cometh of…

— Rupert S. Holland

The story of Ulysses and Agamemnon and Menelaus, of Jesus, of the Good Knight of Chaucer, lives in every one of us.

— James Lee Burke

If you are ambitious of climbing up to the difficult, and in a manner inaccessible, summit of the Temple of Fame, your…

— Miguel de Cervantes

The idea of a stag hunt evokes chivalry - knights in jerkins and hose, ladies on sidesaddles with wimples and billowing dresses,…

— P. J. O'Rourke

We were king’s men, knights, and heroes . . . but some knights are dark and full of terror, my lady. War…

— Anonymous

Michael [Jackson] had paintings of himself at Neverland depicting himself as a knight and surrounded by cherubs and angels. People might think…

— David LaChapelle

We think, sometimes, there’s not a dragon left. Not one brave knight, not a single princess gliding through secret forests... What a…

— Richard Bach

My aim is to institute perpetual adoration," spoke St. Maximilian Maria Kolbe, Franciscan priest and founder of the Knights of the Immaculata.…

— Maximilian Kolbe

The generation of consumers who swallow this pessimistic sentiment can't see past the product to its debased morality. Instead, their excitement about…

— Armond White

Exactly what the fairy tale does is this: it accustoms him for a series of clear pictures to the idea that these…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

The illusion that consumption - and its correlative, income - is desirable probably stems from too great preoccupation with what Knight calls…

— Kenneth E. Boulding

I love to read the dedications of old books written in monarchies for they invariably honor some (usually insignificant) knight or duke…

— Stephen Jay Gould

Remember that you will derive strength by reflecting that the saints yearn for you to join their ranks; desire to see you…

— Henry Suso

Ergo, it is not St. George who is the patron saint of England, but Set of the Hyksos. In general terms whenever…

— Michael Tsarion

I don't have this fantasy about marriage anymore. Everyone says it takes hard work. Well, it kind of does -- and I'm…

— Jennifer Garner

Meliorn?” said Clary. “I’ve met you, haven’t I? You used to go out with Isabelle Lightwood.” Meliorn was almost expressionless, but Clary…

— Cassandra Clare

The word which is best said came nearest to not being spoken at all, for it is cousin to a deed which…

— Henry David Thoreau

The lingering laughter fled from his eyes as he realized that he'd given himself away. "Where's Fiddle now?" "Safe and cared for.…

— Hilari Bell

In tough times, we all hope for knights in shining armor, or the cavalry, to show up and effect change.

— Dean Devlin

In the songs all knights are gallant, all maids are beautiful, and the sun is always shining.

— Anonymous

This is ridiculous. I look like the Games Workshop version of a Jedi Knight.

— Jim Butcher

Yeah, we’ll call you,” muttered Ron as the knight disappeared, “If we ever need someone mental.

— Anonymous

I was excited about The Dark Knight until Heath Ledger gave away the ending, Batman always wins.

— Zach Braff

Knights would have probably liked refrigerator magnets.

— Demetri Martin

“knights.” Prianius was christened, and made a duke and knight of the Round Table. So Prianius”

— James Knowles

Anglo-Saxon barbarians. Arthur should have been made a Knight

— William W. Johnstone