Knights Quotes

270 Knights quotes by 201 unique authors

Women love firefighters so much because it’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
SHADOW KNIGHT'S MATE is a compelling story, extremely well-written and alarmingly plausible. Jay Brandon does for politics what Dan Brown did for religion. — Sharyn McCrumb
A knight ending is really a pawn ending. — Mikhail Botvinnik
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
Knights are cavalry, bishops are archers, rooks are cannons and queens are wizards. — Unknown Author
The fact that a knight is temporarily on the edge of the board is of no great significance. — Anatoly Karpov
The night of QB3 is under obligation, the moment the enemy gives him the chance, of undertaking an invasion of the center by Kn-Q5. — Aron Nimzowitsch
Seize the outpost K5 with your knight, and you can go to sleep. Checkmate will come by itself. — Savielly Tartakower
This is the first teaching of the Knights: You will erase everything you had written in the book of your life up until now: restlessness,… — Paulo Coelho
Anglo-Saxon barbarians. Arthur should have been made a Knight — William W. Johnstone
Diabetes is passed that way -- over and down, like a knight in chess. — Maile Meloy
Fairy damsels met in forest wide / By knights of Logres, or of Lyones, / Lancelot or Pelleas, or Pellenore. — John Milton
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
The knights of the theater represented to me not only the pinnacle of the profession but the esteem in which the profession was held. To… — Patrick Stewart
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
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
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
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
The code of the knight is still the code of the gentleman today. — Baden Powell de Aquino
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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