Knights Quotes

• We are no longer the knights who say Ni! We are now the knights who say ekki-ekki-ekki-pitang-zoom-boing!

  Graham Chapman

  Change, Holy Grail, Zoom

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• A true knight is fuller of bravery in the midst, than in the beginning of danger.

  Philip Sidney

  Courage, Bravery, Be Brave

  Sir Philip Sidney, Jane Porter (1807). “Aphorisms of Sir Philip Sidney: With Remarks”, p.72

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• Knight without fear and without reproach.

  Richard Harris

  Reproach

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• The word knight, which originally meant boy or servant, was particularly applied to a young man after he was admitted to the privilege of bearing arms.

  Thomas Bulfinch

  Boys, Men, Arms

  Thomas Bulfinch (1858). “The Age of Chivalry: Or Legends of King Arthur, "King Arthur and His Knights", "The Mabinogeon", "The Crusades", "Robin Hood", Etc”, p.14

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• We were king’s men, knights, and heroes . . . but some knights are dark and full of terror, my lady. War makes monsters of us all.” “Are you saying you are monsters?” “I am saying we are human. You are not the only one with wounds, Lady Brienne

  George R. R. Martin

  Kings, War, Hero

  George R. R. Martin (2011). “A Game of Thrones 4-Book Bundle: A Song of Ice and Fire Series: A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, and A Feast for Crows”, p.3314, Bantam

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• The sword was a very elegant weapon in the days of the samurai. You had honor and chivalry much like the knights, and yet it was a gruesome and horrific weapon.

  Dustin Diamond

  Honor, Samurai, Weapons

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• I looked it at like this way. To get folks to like you, as a screen player I mean, I figured you had to sort of be their ideal. I don't mean a handsome knight riding a white horse, but a fella who answered the description of a right guy.

  Gary Cooper

  Beauty, Horse, Mean

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• The story of Ulysses and Agamemnon and Menelaus, of Jesus, of the Good Knight of Chaucer, lives in every one of us.

  James Lee Burke

  Jesus, Agamemnon, Stories

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• For as well as I have loved thee heretofore, mine heart will not serve now to see thee; for through thee and me is the flower of kings and knights destroyed.

  Thomas Malory

  Kings, Flower, Heart

  Sir Thomas Malory, Eugène Vinaver (1975). “King Arthur and His Knights: Selected Tales”, p.219, Oxford University Press, USA

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• The world organization debates disarmament in one room and, in the next room, moves the knights and pawns that make national arms imperative.

  E. B. White

  Moving, Organization, World

  E. B. White (2011). “In the Words of E.B. White: Quotations from America's Most Companionable of Writers”, p.200, Cornell University Press

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• And much more am I sorrier for my good knights' loss than for the loss of my fair queen; for queens I might have enough, but such a fellowship of good knights shall never be together in no company.

  Thomas Malory

  Queens, Loss, Together

  Thomas Malory (1998). “Le Morte Darthur : The Winchester Manuscript”, p.481, Oxford Paperbacks

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• 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.

  Barbara Feldon

  Two Sides, Knowing, Shining

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• I have played a boxer, a cowboy, a knight, a prince, an elf and a pirate. I am so glad to have done all of that already.

  Orlando Bloom

  Cowboy, Pirate, Done

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• 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

  Abuse, Trying, More Time

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• Generals think war should be waged like the tourneys of the Middle Ages. I have no use for knights; I need revolutionaries.

  Adolf Hitler

  War, Thinking, Evil

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• Marriage commissioners who choose not to marry homosexuals are being fired. A Knights of Columbus chapter in British Columbia is in court because it chooses not allow a lesbian group to use its facility for marriage ceremonies. The list goes on.

  Stockwell Day

  Groups, Use, Goes On

  House of Commons Debates, www.ourcommons.ca. March 24, 2005.

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• 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

  Sports, Winning, Stupidity

  David S. Broder, Bob Woodward, Dan Quayle (1992). “The man who would be president: Dan Quayle”

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• My whole career has been fulfilling my childhood fantasies, playing characters that are larger than life, getting to play a knight, an elf, a prince, and a soldier.

  Orlando Bloom

  Character, Play, Careers

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• I found the offer of a knighthood something that I couldn't possibly accept. I found it to be somehow squalid, a knighthood. There's a relationship to government about knights.

  Harold Pinter

  Relationship, Government, Literature

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• I'm your knight in shining armor. I'm here to save you from Linkin Park.

  Rufus Wainwright

  Shining, Parks, Armor

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• No false knight or lying priest ever prospered, I believe, in any age, but certainly not in the dark ones. Men prospered then, only in following openly-declared purposes , and preaching candidly beloved and trusted creeds.

  John Ruskin

  Love, Birthday, Lying

  "The Complete Works of John Ruskin".

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• Most of the auditions I went on, I passed up the projects because I just wasn't interested. When I read A Knight's Tale, that was that. I knew I wanted to do this movie.

  Shannyn Sossamon

  Auditions, Projects, Tales

  "Introducing Shannyn Sossamon " by Smitri Mundhra, www.ign.com. May 11, 2001.

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• The Bishop and Knight, in contradistinction to the Queen and Rook, are called Minor Pieces.

  Howard Staunton

  Queens, Bishops, Pieces

  Howard Staunton (1847). “The chess-player's handbook”, p.24

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  I believe that whatever doesn't kill you, simply makes you... stranger.

  Heath Ledger

  Believe, Dark, Stranger

  "Fictional character: The Joker". "The Dark Knight", 2008.

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• The noir hero is a knight in blood caked armor. He's dirty and he does his best to deny the fact that he's a hero the whole time.

  Frank Miller

  Dirty, Hero, Artist

  "Fictional character: Penelope Garcia". "Criminal Minds: True Night" (TV Series), www.imdb.com. 2007.

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