Knight Quotes
245 Knight quotes by 201 unique authors
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Of course, the age-old tradition that a star must appear even if he or she is practically dying is an excellent one, but it can…
— Noel Coward
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The fact that a knight is temporarily on the edge of the board is of no great significance.
— Anatoly Karpov
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Seize the outpost K5 with your knight, and you can go to sleep. Checkmate will come by itself.
— Savielly Tartakower
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Anglo-Saxon barbarians. Arthur should have been made a Knight
— William W. Johnstone
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Diabetes is passed that way -- over and down, like a knight in chess.
— Maile Meloy
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We think, sometimes, there’s not a dragon left. Not one brave knight, not a single princess gliding through secret forests... What a pleasure to be…
— Richard Bach
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God is no White Knight who charges into the world to pluck us like distressed damsels from the jaws of dragons, or diseases. God chooses…
— Nancy Mairs
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Not since the Lord himself showed his stuff to Ezekiel in the valley of dry bones had anyone shown such grace and skill in the…
— Stephen Jay Gould
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The knight is renowned for, among other things, its suitability as a blockader ... Because its strength lies in short-range operations it is not uncomfortable…
— Samuel Reshevsky
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Tartakower once wrote that after planting a Knight in the center you can go to sleep. This is not to be taken literally, of course,…
— Samuel Reshevsky
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The code of the knight is still the code of the gentleman today.
— Baden Powell de Aquino
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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 spent my entire experience with Gary [ on Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy] staring at him and not returning any lines because I think he's…
— Tom Hardy
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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
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Knight without fear and without reproach.
— Richard Harris
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Look, I like gritty. I write gritty. There is a time and a place for gritty. I'll take my Batman gritty, thank you, and I…
— Greg Rucka
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I could give any woman in the world a piece and a move; to Gaprindashvili even, a knight.
— Bobby Fischer
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Fischer is Fischer, but a knight is a knight!
— Mikhail Tal
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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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If, anywhere, brethren of a particular religious belief have been excluded from this Degree [18° Knight Rose Croix], it merely shows how gravely the purposes…
— Albert Pike
Who Wrote These Knight Quotes
201 authors contributed a total of 245 Knight Quotes, led by these top contributors: