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Quotes About Knight

Calling Batman 'the Dark Knight' is like calling Papa Smurf 'the Blue Patriarch':you're not fooling anyone.
~ Charlie Brooker
The whole street took part in the serenade to Flor, Flor leaning against her high window, all ruffles and lace, drenched in moonlight. Down below Vadinho, her gallant knight, with the red rose in his hand, so red it was almost black, the rose of her love.
~ Jorge Amado
Little did they suspect that the years would end by wearing away the disharmony. Little did they suspect that La Mancha and Montiel and the knight's frail figure would be, for the future, no less poetic than Sinbad's haunts or Ariosto's vast geographies. For myth is at the beginning of literature, and also at its end.
~ Jorge Luís Borges
That would be the desirable situation most of the time. The five main virtues of the medieval knight might be brought in here. One is temperance, another is courage, another is love, another is loyalty, and another is courtesy. Courtesy is respect for the decorum of the society in which you are living.
~ Joseph Campbell
Well, the old English tale of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight is a famous one.
~ Joseph Campbell
Even a Jedi Knight is still a living being, with the same failings. - Qui-Gon Jinn
~ Jude Watson
So faithful in love, and so dauntless in war,There never was knight like the young Lochinvar.
~ Walter Scott
Chivalry is not dead it is just hiding underground
~ James D Wilson
How people admire the courage of the chevalier in the field, charging the enemy, when true courage is the knight who defies his friends.
~ James Meek
And at thirty-eight a brilliant exponent of arms and a knight of the great fighting and religious Order of St John, the Chevalier de Villegagnon had absolutely no use for common sense himself, but respected it in the laity.
~ Dorothy Dunnett
The idea that Bill Gates has appeared like a knight in shining armor to lead all customers out of a mire of technological chaos neatly ignores the fact that it was he who, by peddling second-rate technology, led them into it in the first place.
~ Douglas Adams
A large armored knight exoskeleton
~ Alan Jacobson
They said this is Vanity Fair, and I said, Oh, I already take the magazine. They said Annie Leibovitz wants to take your picture and I thought, How nice!
~ Shirley Knight
The Tools of Witchcraft 10 The Tools and Symbols of Streg 1eria Many people have noticed the resemblance of the witches' tools to the armor and weapons of a Knight. There is a definite connection, and any true `Witch must (to some degree) be a Spiritual `Warrior. This is equally true of anyone who walks a magickal path in life.
~ Raven Grimassi
Today the American knight holds the commercial supremacy of the world.
~ Betsy Ross
I looked down at the chessboard. The move with the knight was wrong. I put it back where I had moved it from. Knights had no meaning in this game. It wasn't a game for knights.
~ Raymond Chandler
The main hallway looked just the same. The portrait over the mantel had the same hot black eyes and the knight in the stained-glass window still wasn't getting anywhere untying the naked damsel from the tree.
~ Raymond Chandler
Once upon a time there was a dwarf knight who only had fifty words to live in and they were so fleeting that he only had time to put on a suit of armor and ride swiftly on a black horse into a very well-lit woods where he vanished forever.
~ Richard Brautigan
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
'The Dark Knight' is a really good movie that reached both critics and mainstream audiences.
~ Anurag Kashyap
Deare knight, as deare, as euer knight was deare, That all these sorrowes suffer for my sake, High heuen behold the tedious toyle, ye for me take . . .
~ Edmund Spenser
His louely words her seemd due recompence Of all her passed paines: one louing howre For many yeares of sorrow can dispence: A dram of sweete is worth a pound of sowre: Shee has forgott, how many, a woeful stowre For him she late endurd; she speakes no more Of past . . . Before her stands her knight, for whom she toyld so sore.
~ Edmund Spenser
Maybe it's a way for you to be that knight in shining armor who comes to the rescue—the one who never came to your rescue as a child." Maggie
~ Alex Kava
It was his duty as a card-carrying Knight in Shining Armor to answer the call of a woman in distress. Okay, he didn't actually have a card, but still...
~ Alexandra Ivy