Top 100 Sayings About A Knight
#1. No cursing," I scolded him. "You're a knight. You don't get to do that. You gave up that right when you swore your oath to the King. You have to lead by example now. So say stuff like 'fudge toast' and 'mothercrackers' instead of 'shit whore' and 'fuck storm.
T.J. Klune
#2. I was, in life, to be a gambler, a risk taker, a swashbuckler, a knight. I accepted, then and there, my place in this world. I was a fighter of windmills. I was a chaser of whales.
Percival Everett
#3. And so I am become a knight of the Kingdom of Dreams and Shadows
Mark Twain
#4. You missed your place as a knight-errant three hundred years ago. Always defend a lady, always stand by a friend, and never betray your lord.
Django Wexler
#5. What if custom is wrong? demanded the part of her that believed in the code of chivalry. A knight must set things right.
Tamora Pierce
#6. This is true valor, I hope you know. Legends have sprung from less. All Lancelot did was paddle about in a balmy lake." She smiled. "Lancelot was a knight. You're a viscount. The bar is higher.
Tessa Dare
#7. Few minutes later, when she momentarily forgot that the water was off
and turned on
the faucet, it ran beautifully.
Andrew had, once again, succeeded. He'd arrived unannounced like a knight on
his shiny
white horse to save the damsel in distress.
Damn him.
Bella Andre
#8. The world is a chessboard, Madam, on which we play out our ploys and follies. You are the Queen, of course. Your moves are the strongest. For myself, I claim only to be a knight, advancing in a crooked progress. Do we move ourselves, do you think, or does a great gloved hand place on our squares
Catherine Fisher
#9. 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
#10. An admiral without ships, a hand without fingers, in service of a king without a throne. Is this a knight who comes before us, or the answer to a child's riddle?
George R R Martin
#11. If I'd thought I would regret it," he said calmly, "I never would have made that oath. I knew what becoming a knight would mean. And if you asked me again, the answer would still be the same." He sighed, framing my face with his hands. "My life ... everything I am ... belongs to you.
Julie Kagawa
#12. And don't even suggest that these would be better off in Tiercel's hands. No, Tiercel has other things to do with his life. You, on the other hand, get to protect him. And guess what that makes you?"
"Stupid?" Harrier suggested. "Suicidal?"
"A Knight-Mage!" the unicorn cried cheerfully.
Mercedes Lackey
#13. And while she hadn't been looking for a knight, she hadn't been searching out ogres, either.
Nora Roberts
#14. the princess locked herself away in the highest tower, hoping a knight in shining armor would come to her rescue. - i didn't realize i could be my own knight.
Amanda Lovelace
#15. 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
#16. Diabetes is passed that way
over and down, like a knight in chess.
Maile Meloy
#17. A knight's a sword with a horse. The rest, the vows and the sacred oils and the lady's favors, they're silk ribbons tied round the sword.
Maybe the sword's are prettier with ribbons hanging off it, but it will kill you just as dead.
George R R Martin
#18. My first career ambitions involved turning into a boy; I intended to be either a railway guard or a knight errant.
Hilary Mantel
#19. Are you waiting for a knight in shining armor, Ren? Or will you take this soldier with a broken sword who is willing to take his last breath fighting by your side?
Ky Lehman
#20. I'm not a Knight. I'm a Bishop. Or at least I am trying to be. And traveling with you is the most slantwise, backward thing I can possibly think of, which in this place probably means it's the right thing to do.
Catherynne M Valente
#21. Now that you made me a knight again", he said lightly, "I'll have to keep my mind on certain knightly virtues like chastity."
Ciara could not remember that ever being a knightly virtue.
Shelly Thacker
#22. Destriers began to perish of exhaustion and exposure. "What is a knight without a horse?" men riddled. "A snowman with a sword.
George R R Martin
#23. But I am a knight of the Round Table," he protested, weakly. "I am a protector of the realm, a slayer of evil, I defeat all those who raise their swords in opposition to Arthur, King of all Britain."
"Trust me, kid, women prefer a man who can cook.
Tanya Huff
#24. I saw myself as a knight-errant ... but the damsel in distress stabbed me in the back, my sword shattered on the dragon's hide, and my grail turned out to be the bottom of a whiskey bottle.
Simon R. Green
#25. You are quick, for a dancing master, said Ser Meryn. You are slow, for a knight, Syrio replied.
George R R Martin
#26. Shut up, you brat," interrupted Geralt, smiling nastily "Halt your uncontrolled little tongue. You speak to a lady who deserves respect, especially from a Knight of the White Rose ...
Andrzej Sapkowski
#27. 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
#28. There was a knight came riding by
In early spring, when the roads were dry;
And he heard that lady sing at the noon,
Two red roses across the moon.
William Morris
#29. I'm not a princess but Ryan is a knight, he just belongs to someone else.
Katie McGarry
#30. We no need to be a knight for to live in a castle and fight for a better life.
Jan Jansen
#31. Without honor, a knight is no more than a common killer. It is better to die with honor than to live without it.
George R R Martin
#32. A knight," Allan muttered. "As if I would ever be a knight. I'm far too handsome to be a knight.
A.C. Gaughen
#33. But I want to be loved. I have always been loved. I want my husband to love me with a passion, like in a troubadour tale, like a knight.
Philippa Gregory
#34. The perception of the West as mostly a "knight of democracy" has been replaced with the disappointed belief that pragmatism, often cynical and selfish, lies at the core of Western policies. For many Russians it was a grave disillusion, a crushing of ideals.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
#35. 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
#36. glass knives were about as useful as nipples on a knight's breastplate,
George R R Martin
#37. When people say a knight's job is all glory, I laugh and laugh and laugh. Often I can stop laughing before they edge away and talk about soothing drinks.
Tamora Pierce
#38. I learned that evening that rain falls equally on all things. Jealousy, fear, and anger are obstacles to a knight's first goal: a clear mind.
Ethan Hawke
#39. Renly thought she was absurd. A woman dressed in man's mail, pretending to be a knight." "If he'd ever seen her in pink satin and Myrish lace, he would not have complained.
George R R Martin
#40. She closed her eyes and lowered her head, feeling like a knight taking a knee and pledging her sword to a far superior warrior.
Reki Kawahara
#41. Stand and answer! Why are ye come? By whom are ye sent to trouble me? I am a knight of the Great King. In the King's Name, speak!
~Sir Constant
W.E. Cule
#42. While some are as loathe to trade a Bishop for a Knight as a Cadillac for a Chevrolet, others are prepared to do so without hesitation.
Larry Evans
#43. I have fought my fight, I have lived my life,
I have drunk my share of wine;
From Trier to Coln there was never a knight
Led a merrier life than mine.
Charles Kingsley
#44. Oh, I would not want a knight with no dents. It means he has never been to battle, never fought for his honor, the things he believes in, or for sheer survival. Without the dents, sir, I would not trust my knight to be fully human.
Kathleen Bittner Roth
#45. And yet you're a knight. (Rowena)
Because I have seen the great evil that is done on this earth to those who can't fight for themselves. The meek only inherit the grave while the strong go on until someone stronger stops them. (Stryder)
Kinley MacGregor
#46. Theirs was a long, complicated story with a monster and a knight. What made their story unique was that these two players were the same person.
Aleatha Romig
#47. The Block were not his enemy any more than the terror groups had been, however. They were just opponents in someone's obscene game of chess. It was stupid for a knight to hate a pawn just because it flew a different flag.
Evan Currie
#48. But Gale? Gale is a warrior. He's a rebel. He's a badass. He's a knight.
Leah Wilson
#49. You have the knowledge of a businessman, the plans of a criminal mastermind, the actions of a cold-blooded killer, and the words of honor like those of a knight.
Kel Kade
#50. You've got this whole knight-in-shining-armor vibe going on."
I shake my head. "My armor was tarnished a long time ago, Brent."
"A knight in tarnished armor is still a knight.
Emma Chase
#51. The light was so dim that Jaime could scarcely see her, though they stood a scant few feet apart. 'In this light she could almost be a beauty', he thought. 'In this light she could almost be a knight'.
George R R Martin
#52. 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
#53. My lord, what do you call a whore when she is a knight's daughter?" "Ah," the cardinal says, entering into the problem. "To her face, 'my lady.
Hilary Mantel
#54. 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
#55. For a knight to ride in a carriage was against the principles of chivalry and he never under any circumstances rode a mare.
Barbara W. Tuchman
#56. Tell me, cat-man, why can I understand her?"
"First," said Eanrin with a glower, "you will not call me 'cat-man' again. I am a knight, a poet, and a gentleman, and you will address me as sir or not address me at all.
Anne Elisabeth Stengl
#57. You have another choice, though," Prince Baelor said quietly. "Whether it is a better choice or a worse one, I cannot say, but I remind you that any knight accused of a crime has the right to demand trial by combat. So I ask you once again, Ser Duncan the Tall - how good a knight are you? Truly?
George R R Martin
#58. Dany kissed him lightly on the cheek. It heartened her to see him smile. I must be strong for him as well, she thought grimly. A knight he may be, but I am the blood of the dragon.
George R R Martin
#59. Must I say it, ser? You call me love, yet you refuse me, when I have most desperate need of you. Is it so wrong of me to want a knight to keep me safe? - Arianne
George R R Martin
#60. So then, his armour being furbished, his morion turned into a helmet, his hack christened, and he himself confirmed, he came to the conclusion that nothing more was needed now but to look out for a lady to be in love with; for a knight-errant without love was like a tree soul.
Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra
#61. Luce had to fight every urge in her body not to run into his arms. He was breathtaking: a knight in shining armor to outshine any fairy-tale knight.
Lauren Kate
#62. Henry went down on one knee. 'Like King Arthur's knights,' Mr. Fogarty had told him, but he didn't feel much like a knight. In fact he felt like a twit.
Herbie Brennan
#63. A knight can fight. As you well know, I fight about as well as a pillow."
"That's an insult to pillows. At least they can take a beating.
Eli Brown
#65. It was all for the best. I am an elf, and he is a human. Thomas is a Knight, and I am a Princess. His Knighthood meant nothing in this world. Though it did make me wonder what it meant in his. In his world, did Knights and Princesses fall in love? I doubted it.
Rae Z. Ryans
#66. As a knight, I was bound to believe the best about someone until proven otherwise.
Jody Hedlund
#67. A knight in tarnished armor is still a knight. When
Emma Chase
#68. I will be brave, thought Despereaux. I will try to be brave like a knight in shining armour. I will be brave for the Princess Pea.
Kate DiCamillo
#69. Aren't you just a knight in shining armor? ... Wherever do you keep your horse? And who scoops up the crap it leaves behind?
Myra McEntire
#70. In this light she could almost be a beauty, he thought. In this light she could almost be a knight. - Jaime
George R R Martin
#71. A knight must develop all his abilities, to the fullest.
Tamora Pierce
#72. I have not conceived my mission to be that of a knight-errant wandering everywhere to deliver people from difficult situations.
My humble occupation has been to show people how they can solve their own difficulties.
Mahatma Gandhi
#73. The very purpose of a knight is to fight on behalf of a lady.
Thomas Malory
#74. 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
#75. What makes you think I'm giving you a ride?" "Because I'm a damsel in distress," she said. "And you are a knight in whatever. A really dirty car.
Neil Gaiman
#76. You're unpredictable and dangerous and protect those you love fiercely. You should be proud. To me you're more than a knight in some stupid shiny armour. You're the monster who no one can tame but the woman he loves. - Tess Snow
Pepper Winters
#77. She'd known many men in her life but this bear of a man with a lawyer's mind, an accountant's habits, and a knight's spirit outshone them all.
Cathy Maxwell
#79. This was the first time that he thoroughly felt and believed himself to be a knight-errant in reality and not merely in fancy, now that he saw himself treated in the same way as he had read of such knights being treated in days of yore.
Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra
#80. I like getting on my high horse. I look good on it. Like a knight ...
Dan Miller
#81. An old woman selling piglets from a basket stopped to stare at him, a knight with a half-familiar face went to one knee, and two men-at-arms pissing in a ditch turned and sprayed each other.
George R R Martin
#82. For someone who is supposed to be a knight in shining armor, you're acting like an ass in aluminum foil.
Lisa Logue
#83. That's the thing about a knight whose armor shines, though. It's never been in battle.
Skye Warren
#84. Otchky-potchky, itchky-pitch,
Pay attention to this witch.
A donkey takes you to a knight
Him you conquer in a fight.
Then you wed a princess who
Is even uglier than you.
Ha ha ha and cockadoodle,
The magic words are 'Apple Strudel
William Steig
#85. To head north, a knight may use the North Star to guide him, but he will not arrive at the North Star. A knight's duty is to proceed in that direction.
Ethan Hawke
#86. A girl can't always wait for a knight in shining armor. She'd be dead long before he ever shows up, if at all.
Casey Odell
#87. I didn't choose you.
You didn't choose me.
We were thrown together in tragedy,
Joined by circumstance.
A hero and his hindrance.
A knight and his damsel.
Tara Hart
#88. Understanding that he relies on all that surrounds him, a knight is kind above all.
Ethan Hawke
#89. Some women waited for a night in shining armor. She, apparently, had ended up with a knight in black jeans and leather, who wanted to chase her down and have his evil way with her.
Ilona Andrews
#90. Women love firefighters so much because it's like a knight in shining armor kind of thing.
Taylor Kinney
#91. [,,,]he saw it as his Christian duty. Jesus had given his life for others, and a knight must do the same, and nothing was nobler than saving a young woman.
Melanie Dickerson
#93. She stood like a knight in a painting, her head bowed and her sword at her side, blood spattering her gear, her hair half-torn out of its bindings, floating down around her.
Cassandra Clare
#94. A man on a quest. A Don Quixote searching for his Dulcinea. But keep in mind my good friend, Don Quixote never found his Dulcinea, did he? He did not. There sometimes isn't much difference between a knight's quest and a fool's errand.
Morgan Matson
#95. And then he rushed off, like a knight in shining armor, leaving the party and one very unhappy Little Skanky Red Riding Hood behind.
J. Lynn
#96. On the field of The Self stand a knight and a dragon. You are the knight. Resistance is the dragon.
Steven Pressfield
#97. Quoting an experienced school counselor: "You can't change a bully into a flower child, but you can change him into a knight.
Leonard Sax
#98. I am a knight - " "So I've noted. Tell me - did Cersei have you knighted before or after she took you into her bed?" The flicker in Lancel's green eyes was all the admission Tyrion needed. So Varys told it true. Well, no one can ever claim that my sister does not love her family.
George R R Martin
#99. Like a butcher without a knife, a knight without a sword, and a farrier without a hammer, you cannot have a town without rules; if there were a town like that, a great big anarchy would reign there, just as in the realm of animals!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#100. Until this movie 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, and am ready for this phase of my career.
Orlando Bloom
