Quotes About Knighthood

The odd thing about ambition is this: You can acquire it like a fever, but it is not so easy to shed. Once, I was content to hope for knighthood and the power to force Cardan and his friends to leave me alone. All I wanted was to find some place to fit in here in Faerie. Now I wonder what it would be like to choose the next king.

As I thought. I didn't appreciate you properly. I dismissed your desire for knighthood. I dismissed your capacity for strategy, for strength- and for cruelty. That was my mistake, and one I will not make again.' I am not sure if that's a threat or an apology.

it had always been the custom in Jemmerdy for young women between the ages of fourteen and (if unmarried) forty, to hold positions in the Nine Knightly Fellowships which comprised the army of the Jemmerdines. At seventeen, Xarda was dubbed knight — or "knightrix," as the female soldiers were called in her homeland.

The law stated that those with property worth more than £20 a year were obliged to adopt the status of knights; but knighthood was an expensive business, with the cost of equipment alone, and many landowners were ready to pay a relatively large sum to avoid the honour.

None of us is ever ready,' he (Ned) said. 'For knighthood?' 'For death.

I remembered a definition of chivalry I'd heard once: a man protecting a woman against every man but himself.