Knight Quotes

245 Knight quotes by 201 unique authors

A comparably capacious embrace of beauty and pleasure - an embrace that somehow extends to death as well as life, to dissolution as well as… — Stephen Greenblatt
If you envy me whatever modicom of success that I enjoy, you must also envy me my time, my labour, my finance, my anxiety, my… — Don King
A knight errant who turns mad for a reason deserves neither merit nor thanks. The thing is to do it without cause — Miguel de Cervantes
I have not conceived my mission to be that of a knight-errant wandering everywhere to deliver people from difficult situations. My humble occupation has been… — Mahatma Gandhi
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… — Confucius
This knight was indeed a valiant gentleman; but not a little given to romance, when he spake of himself. — John Evelyn
I've always supported myself. I like the sense of knowing exactly where I stand financially, but there is a side of me that longs for… — Barbara Feldon
A novice was trying to fix a broken Lisp machine by turning the power off and on. Knight, seeing what the student was doing, spoke… — Danny Hillis
The very purpose of a knight is to fight on behalf of a lady. — Thomas Malory
The only intercourse possible between the knight and the dragon is battle. — Steven Pressfield
A hedge knight must hold tight to his pride. Without it, he was no more than a sellsword — George R. R. Martin
This China trade deal is basically like the Bobby Knight of trade deals. You know, you abuse, you abuse, you abuse, and then they say… — David E. Bonior
I was excited about The Dark Knight until Heath Ledger gave away the ending, Batman always wins. — Zach Braff
Women love firefighters so much because itâ€™s like a knight in shining armor kind of thing. — Taylor Kinney
How vain are our fears! I thought to myself. Sometimes we fear that which our opponent (or fate) had never even considered! After this, then,… — Aron Nimzowitsch
So faithful in love, and so dauntless in war, There never was knight like young Lochinvar. — Walter Scott
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… — Emanuel Lasker
While some are as loathe to trade a Bishop for a Knight as a Cadillac for a Chevrolet, others are prepared to do so without… — Larry Evans
Most chess players know, thanks to the study of master games, that two bishops are stronger than two knights or than bishop and knight, though… — Richard Reti
A knight ending is really a pawn ending. — Mikhail Botvinnik

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201 authors contributed a total of 245 Knight Quotes, led by these top contributors: