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Quotes About Knight

He must have seen the question in her eyes. He must have read her confusion, for he smiled gently, folded her hand in his, and raised it to his lips. "I know what you're thinking," he said softly, looking at her from over the top of her knuckles, "but you see, Maeve—I am you Gallant Knight after all. I fulfill every blasted one of your criteria.
~ Unknown
Pirate?" "Aye, Majesty?" His fingers drifted through her hair, and she kissed his damp chest. "I . . . I don't believe I'll kill you, after all." She felt him smile against her forehead. "Maybe you really are my Gallant Knight," she murmured, and on that thought, drifted off to sleep.
~ Unknown
My affections are one thing you won't be stealing." "A pity, that. A kiss then, Majesty, for your Gallant Knight?" he asked, looking up at her through his lashes in the manner that had devastated many a heart before hers. "Surely, you can grant me that. Or will such an act put you in irons once again?
~ Unknown
Lewis was no fan of war, but he was unashamed to champion the beauty of the knight, of the medieval Crusader, of the "Christian in arms for the defense of a good cause.
~ Unknown
Peaky' is the luckiest project I've ever been involved with.
~ Steven Knight
When I was writing the early scripts for Star Wars, I wanted to develop an essentially evil character that was frightening," says Lucas. "Darth Vader started as a kind of intergalactic bounty hunter in a space suit and evolved into a more grotesque knight as I got more into knights and the codes of everything.
~ J.W. Rinzler
Oh what can ail thee, knight-at-arms, Alone and palely loitering?
~ John Keats
Lo! I must tell a tale of chivalry;
~ John Keats
No one doubts your courage, but you are a headstrong knight and when you choose a way you cannot change your course even if it lead to your destruction. That is your fault and your destiny.
~ John Steinbeck
A knight without mercy is without honor.
~ John Steinbeck
And what could be more frightening than a child with total power? A spear and sword are terrible, God knows. That is why the knight who carries them is first taught pity, justice, mercy, and only last--force.
~ John Steinbeck
Papers there were in the chest, and parchments, and stiff untanned skins, written in English and Latin and the old Cumric tongue: Morgan was born, Morgan was married, Morgan became a knight, Morgan was hanged. Here lay the history of the house, shameful and glorious.
~ John Steinbeck
Technically, I'm a knight. My family goes back a thousand years in the Naples area. We're a titled, noble people.
~ Paul Sorvino
Acepta tus miedos pues son los que te han retado para que desarrolles la misma fuerza y coraje de un esforzado caballero en la batalla.
~ Unknown
A handsome young knight is madly in love with a princess, and she too is in love with him, though she seems not to be entirely aware of it. Despite the friendship that blossoms between them, or perhaps because of that very friendship, the young knight finds himself so humbled and speechless that he is totally unable to bring up the subject of his love. Until one day he asks the princess point-blank: Is it better to speak or to die?
~ Unknown
A knight whose heart is set upon the Way, but who is ashamed of wearing shabby clothes and eating coarse food, is not worth calling into counsel.
~ Confucius
Church teaching stated the conditions under which citizens could kill tyrants. Catholic doctrine permitted capital punishment; and though a priest himself could not shed blood, a Christian knight could wield the sword of justice at the bidding of a priest.
~ Unknown
it please Your Majesty," said the young knight, in firm tones, "the question I put to the court is: Can love truly survive marriage?" The ladies
~ Unknown
Fair knight, the code of love says that marriage is no obstacle to lovers." Her brow wrinkled. "Does that satisfy you?
~ Unknown
The most beautiful life that has been imagined is the life of the knight Don Quixote who created danger where he did not find it. But more beautiful still is the lived life of him who finds danger in all places. All creation stands on the edge of being; all creation is risk. He who does not risk his soul can only ape the creator.
~ Martin Buber
To every lovely lady bright, I wish a gallant faithful knight; To every faithful lover, too, I wish a trusting lady true.
~ Walter Scott
The rook is my favorite piece.' she said. 'It's the one you think you don't have to watch out for. It is straightforward. You keep your eyes on the queen, and the knight and the bishop, because they are the sneaky ones. But is the rook that often gets you. The straightforward is never quite what it seems.
~ Matt Haig
Yet just as a classic heroic tale needs a Saint, an unabashedly White-Hatted and periodically naive champion of romantic love, so too it isn't quite complete without that other, more dubious, good guy: The Black Knight.
~ Unknown
I don't know what I'll be in the future, Anakin, but I know you'll be a great Jedi Knight." - Jacen Solo
~ Michael A. Stackpole