Top Knights Quotes Collection

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Image of Alan Goldsher
I said to him, "State your business, mortal!" There was no need for me to call him "mortal" or to speak like a sixteenth-century knight. It just sounded cool.
- Alan Goldsher
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Image of Jenna Black
I can see why you opted out of Knight training,” I countered. “They’d have ‘accidentally’ killed you before you made it to adulthood.
- Jenna Black
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Image of Gerald Morris
How did they know that I was the one who saved them?" "They don't. You're the third knight they've celebrated over since it happened.
- Gerald Morris
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Image of Janette Rallison
I bet you Cinderella didn't get along with Prince Charming's friends. Oh sure, the knights and barons probably put up with her on account that she was pretty and had such dainty feet and all, but you should know every duchess and contess in the kingdom hated her guts.
- Janette Rallison
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Image of Maile Meloy
Diabetes is passed that way -- over and down, like a knight in chess.
- Maile Meloy
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Image of Phil Knight
Play by the rules, but be ferocious.
- Phil Knight
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Image of Sharyn McCrumb
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
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Image of Emily Post
The honor of a gentleman demands the inviolability of his word, and the incorruptibility of his principles. He is the descendent of the knight, the crusader; he is the defender of the defenseless and the champion of justice--or he is not a gentleman.
- Emily Post
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Image of Emanuel Lasker
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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Image of Jose Raul Capablanca
Although the Knight is generally considered to be on a par with the Bishop in strength, the latter piece is somehat stronger in the majority of cases in which they are opposed to each other.
- Jose Raul Capablanca
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Image of John Evelyn
This knight was indeed a valiant gentleman; but not a little given to romance, when he spake of himself.
- John Evelyn
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Image of Thomas Malory
With that truncheon thou hast slain a good knight, and now it sticketh in thy body.
- Thomas Malory
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Image of Larry Evans
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 hesitation.
- Larry Evans
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Image of John O'Keefe
What baron or squire Or knight of the shire Lives half so well as a holy friar.
- John O'Keefe
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Image of Froma Harrop
No female - young, old, black or white - could ever play the knight-on-charger with meager experience. If she presented herself as the human embodiment of national unity and world peace, everyone would have fallen down laughing.
- Froma Harrop
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Image of Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum
Not every rider is a horseman and not every horseman is a knight.
- Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum
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Image of Vlastimil Hort
In blitz, the Knight is stronger than the Bishop
- Vlastimil Hort
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Image of Taylor Kinney
Women love firefighters so much because it’s like a knight in shining armor kind of thing.
- Taylor Kinney
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Image of William W. Johnstone
Anglo-Saxon barbarians. Arthur should have been made a Knight
- William W. Johnstone
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Image of David E. Bonior
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 'Well, OK, we'll let you try one more time.'
- David E. Bonior
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Image of Jay Carr
[The Front Page] is still full of peppy banter as it sends its seedy knights after cheap scoops.
- Jay Carr
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Image of Marie de France
In times gone by there lived a Count of Ponthieu, who loved chivalry and the pleasures of the world beyond measure, and moreover was a stout knight and a gallant gentleman
- Marie de France
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Image of John Smit
For in Virginia, a plaine Souldier that can use a Pick-axe and spade, is better than five Knights.
- John Smit
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Image of A. Meredith Walters
I still hung onto the hope that my broken knight would gallop back into my life and sweep me off my feet.
- A. Meredith Walters
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Image of Anatoly Karpov
The fact that a knight is temporarily on the edge of the board is of no great significance.
- Anatoly Karpov
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Image of Efim Bogoljubov
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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Image of Robbie Rist
Sometimes people will bring up these odd things that I did a one-off from. Like, I did a 'Knight Rider,' and I'll get an E-mail from a 'Knight Rider' fan who says, 'Look what I did to my car!' And I don't know if you know about this, but there is a sub-cult of 'Knight Rider' fan who trick out their cars to look like KITT. I'm, like, 'Really? Isn't there anything else you can do? Do you make that much money? Because I have projects I'd like to get off the ground, so how about you don't make KITT and you give it to me?'
- Robbie Rist
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Image of Ewan McGregor
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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Image of J. K. Rowling
Yeah, we’ll call you,” muttered Ron as the knight disappeared, “If we ever need someone mental.
- J. K. Rowling
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Image of Andrew Wyeth
And, of course, I began drawing so much - wild, undisciplined pencil drawings and watercolors of knights battling and such.
- Andrew Wyeth
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Image of Lauren Oliver
So are you going to be my knight in shining armor or what?' Kent does a little bow. 'You know I can't resist a damsel in distress.
- Lauren Oliver
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Image of Edmund Spenser
A Gentle Knight was pricking on the plaine.
- Edmund Spenser
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Image of David Bowie
We can't stop trying til we break up our minds, til the sun drips blood on the seedy young knight.
- David Bowie
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Image of Ambrose Bierce
MISERICORDE, n. A dagger which in mediaeval warfare was used by the foot soldier to remind an unhorsed knight that he was mortal.
- Ambrose Bierce
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Image of Mark Wahlberg
For Michael [Bay] and I [ Transformers: The Last Knight ] is our third movie so we're quite familiar with each other and know where to push each other and bring the best out of each other. But I'm definitely not as young as I used to be, that's the biggest difference.
- Mark Wahlberg
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Image of Alfred Lord Tennyson
She hath no loyal knight and true, The Lady of Shalott.
- Alfred Lord Tennyson
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Image of Beryl Markham
In the family of continents, Africa is the silent, the brooding sister, courted for centuries by knight-errant empires - rejecting them one by one and severally, because she is too sage and a little bored with the importunity of it all.
- Beryl Markham
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Image of John Milton
Fairy damsels met in forest wide / By knights of Logres, or of Lyones, / Lancelot or Pelleas, or Pellenore.
- John Milton
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Image of Ilona Andrews
I was a knight," Andrea said. "I'm not just going to start shooting every dickhead who mouths off to me." "Just making sure." "Besides, if I shot him, I'd do it so nobody could trace it back to me. I'd shoot him somewhere remote, his head would explode like a melon, and they would never find his body. He would just vanish.
- Ilona Andrews
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Image of Trenton Lee Stewart
Remember the White Knight.
- Trenton Lee Stewart
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Image of Catherynne M. Valente
So most people go around with grimy machinery, when all it would take is a bit of spit and polish to make them paladins once more, bold knights and true.
- Catherynne M. Valente
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Image of Steven Pressfield
The only intercourse possible between the knight and the dragon is battle.
- Steven Pressfield
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Image of Tamora Pierce
My new knight mistress is famed for wielding sharp edges: Sword, Knife and Tongue!
- Tamora Pierce
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Image of Jim Butcher
This is ridiculous. I look like the Games Workshop version of a Jedi Knight.
- Jim Butcher
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Image of Tamora Pierce
What if custom is wrong? demanded the part of her that believed in the code of chivalry. A knight must set things right.
- Tamora Pierce
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Image of Alfred Lord Tennyson
And sometimes through the mirror blue The knights come riding two and two.
- Alfred Lord Tennyson
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Image of Arthur Schopenhauer
Our civilized world is nothing but a great masquerade. You encounter knights, parsons, soldiers, doctors, lawyers, priests, philosophers and a thousand more: but they are not what they appear - they are merely masks... Usually, as I say, there is nothing but industrialists, businessmen and speculators concealed behind all these masks.
- Arthur Schopenhauer
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Image of Garry Trudeau
Keith Knight is mapping out a previously unknown vector of the vast cartoon universe.
- Garry Trudeau
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Image of William Shakespeare
QUINCE Francis Flute, the bellows-mender. FLUTE Here, Peter Quince. QUINCE Flute, you must take Thisby on you. FLUTE What is Thisby? a wandering knight? QUINCE It is the lady that Pyramus must love. FLUTE Nay, faith, let me not play a woman; I have a beard coming.
- William Shakespeare
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Image of Miguel de Cervantes
If you are ambitious of climbing up to the difficult, and in a manner inaccessible, summit of the Temple of Fame, your surest way is to leave on one hand the narrow path of Poetry, and follow the narrower track of Knight-Errantry, which in a trice may raise you to an imperial throne.
- Miguel de Cervantes
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