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Quotes About Knights

What I call Professionalism someone else might call the Artist's Code or the Warrior's Way. It's an attitude of egolessness and service. The Knights of the Round Table were chaste and self-effacing. Yet they dueled dragons.
~ Steven Pressfield
What I call Professionalism someone else might call the Artist's Code or the Warrior's Way. It's an attitude of egolessness and service. The Knights of the Round Table were chaste and self-effacing. Yet they dueled dragons.
~ Steven Pressfield
According to legend, after the suppression of the Knights Templar in 1312, surviving Templars went into hiding in Scotland where they eventually resurfaced as Freemasons. An "Unknown Master" received these Templar secrets and fashioned seven degrees linked to knightly titles.
~ Judika Illes
Scutage was an aspect of two fundamental historic trends in twelfth-century Europe that profoundly affected the knights. The first was the increasing concentration of power in the hands of a few kings and great princes that gradually professionalized warfare. The second was the economic upturn from the depressed state of the ninth and tenth centuries to the Commercial Revolution of the eleventh and twelfth centuries that raised living standards and inflated prices.
~ Frances Gies
Chivalry is first and foremost the worldview of fighting men.
~ Brad Miner
Through this same man and me hath all this war been wrought, and the death of the most noblest knights of the world; for through our love that we have loved together is my most noble lord slain.
~ Thomas Malory
There have been many gay knights in the past - like Sir Noel Coward or Sir John Gielgud.
~ Ian Mckellen
I love horses. I think I may have been one of Henry VIII's knights in another life, riding through a great forest.
~ Madonna Ciccone
It was not enough for knights simply to love and fight well; they needed to sacrifice everything for the highest ideals, such as a Grail quest.
~ Brad Miner
He have allowed us to redeem one soul already, and we go out as the old knights of the Cross to redeem more. Like them we shall travel towards the sunrise. And like them, if we fall, we fall in good cause.
~ Bram Stoker
What-you're Smoke Knights! Stop this at once!" "Oh, do shut up, Your Highness.
~ Kaja Foglio
Getting cut off from the knights' magic rock also required a period of exile from their giant glass mushroom. (Those of you in the Hushlands, I dare you to work that last sentence into a conversation. "By the way, Sally, did you know that getting cut from the knight's magic rock also requires a period of exile from their giant glass mushroom?")
~ Brandon Sanderson
Saw the face of Robert Lee. Incredible eyes. An honest man, a simple man. Out of date. They all ride to glory, all the plumed knights.
~ Michael Shaara
Haste to thie kiste, thie onlie dortoure bedde.Cale, as the claie whiche will gre on thie hedde,Is Charitie and Love aminge highe elves;Knightis and Barons live for pleasure and themselves.
~ Thomas Chatterton
Maybe all young men who love us become knights in shining armor when we love them back.
~ Cameron Dokey
One aim of the Boy Scouts scheme is to revive amongst us, if possible, some of the rules of the knights of old.
~ Robert Baden-Powell
God bless ABC. They are my knights in shining armor. I love their content. Just as a person, I'm a huge fan of 'Scandal,' I still love 'Grey's Anatomy,' and 'Resurrection' looks amazing.
~ Jaime Ray Newman
I do more research about 'Lumberjanes' than I did for a story of medieval knights.
~ Noelle Stevenson
You need a name." I covered the receiver for a moment. "We need a team name." "Hunters," Raphael said. "Valiant Knights of the Fur," Dali said. "Justice Group," Jim said. "Since Justice League is taken." "Fools." Doolittle shook his head. "Fools," I said into the receiver.
~ Ilona Andrews
Endings bring new beginnings. Love has many truths. And knights come in all colours.
~ Dianna Hardy, Summer's End
NI! Oh no! Not ni!
~ Monty Python
and it came out that this King Arthur and his knights had done nothing of real note but to kill innocent dragons all around Britain: almost certainly a pack of lies, as Forthing admitted they had not possessed even any guns at the time, and unpleasant lies at that.
~ Naomi Novik
Didn't he come to—to ask you for some magic? No, he came to enjoy the view of the Wood, the Dragon said. Of course he came for magic, and I sent him about his business, which is hacking at enemy knights and not meddling in things he scarcely understands.
~ Naomi Novik
And therein were many knights and squires to behold, scaffolds and pavilions; for there upon the morn should be a great tournament: and the lord of the tower was in his castle and looked out at a window, and saw a damosel, a dwarf, and a knight armed at all points.
~ Thomas Malory