Knight Quotes

Bobby Knight told me this: 'There is nothing that a good defense cannot beat a better offense.' In other words a good offense wins. (Dan Quayle)
So faithful in love, and so dauntless in war, There never was knight like young Lochinvar. View quote
Walter Scott
The Senator from South Carolina has read many books of chivalry, and believes himself a chivalrous knight, with sentiments of honor and courage. Of course he has chosen a mistress to whom he has made his vows, and who, though ugly to others, is always lovely to him; though polluted in the sight of the world, is chaste in his sight I mean the harlot, Slavery. For her, his tongue is always profuse in words. View quote
Charles Sumner
Sanya, Knight of the Cross: Laugh whenever you can. Keeps you from killing yourself when things are bad. That and vodka. View quote
Jim Butcher
Sanya, Knight of the Cross: There is, I think, humor here which does not translate well from English into sanity. View quote
Jim Butcher
I love to read the dedications of old books written in monarchies-for they invariably honor some (usually insignificant) knight or duke with fulsome words of sycophantic insincerity, praising him as the light of the universe (in hopes, no doubt, for a few ducats to support future work); this old practice makes me feel like such an honest and upright man, by comparison, when I put a positive spin, perhaps ever so slightly exaggerated, on a grant proposal. View quote
Stephen Jay Gould
As a girl, she had come to believe in the ideal man -- the prince or knight of her childhood stories. In the real world, however, men like that simply didn't exist. View quote
Nicholas Sparks
With that truncheon thou hast slain a good knight, and now it sticketh in thy body. View quote
Thomas Malory
The very purpose of a knight is to fight on behalf of a lady. View quote
Thomas Malory
A true knight is fuller of bravery in the midst, than in the beginning of danger. View quote
Philip Sidney
This Knight was indeede a valiant Gent: but not a little given to romance, when he spake of himselfe. (John Evelyn)
I have fought my fight, I have lived my life, I have drunk my share of wine; From Trier to Köln there was never a knight Had a merrier life than mine. View quote
Charles Kingsley
The idea that Bill Gates (one of the founders of Microsoft) has appeared like a knight in shining armour to lead all customers out of a mire of technological chaos neatly ignores the fact that it was he, by peddling second rate technology, led them into it in the first place... View quote
Douglas Adams
Like an armed warrior, like a plumed knight, James G. Blaine marched down the halls of the American Congress and threw his shining lance full and fair against the brazen forehead of every traitor to his country and every maligner of his fair reputation. View quote
Robert G. Ingersoll
A knight errant who turns mad for a reason deserves neither merit nor thanks. The thing is to do it without cause. View quote
Miguel de Cervantes
When I am trying to understand the method of winning in the endgame with two bishops against the knight, chess is a science, when I admire a beautiful combination or study, then chess is art, and when I am complicating position in the approaching time trouble of my opponent, then chess is sport. View quote
Ashot Nadanian
I'm Phil Knight, and I don't believe in advertising. View quote
Phil Knight
I thought you were her knight, but you have become only her woodsman--taking little girls into the forest to cut out their hearts. View quote
Holly Black
Relax? he repeated incredulously. You're going to fight an armored knight with nothing more than a bow and you tell me to relax? I'll have one or two arrows as well, you know, Halt told him mildly, and Horace shook his head in disbelief. View quote
John Flanagan
'The Dark Knight' is a really good movie that reached both critics and mainstream audiences. View quote
Anurag Kashyap
I was the adoring son of a Welsh-Irish father, a dyed-in-the-wool Democrat, a Catholic Knight of Columbus who was a blue-collar, trade union organizer and, not surprisingly, a fervid Nixon-hater. (Bob Gunton)
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 a knight in shining armor. View quote
Barbara Feldon
The Bishop and Knight, in contradistinction to the Queen and Rook, are called Minor Pieces. View quote
Howard Staunton
Technically, I'm a knight. My family goes back a thousand years in the Naples area. We're a titled, noble people. View quote
Paul Sorvino
Men, we don't need you to be a knight in shining armor. We just need you to be a little bit brave, just a little bit. And some of them are, and that's what he does. View quote
Virginia Madsen