The Hedge Knight Quotes

#1. Egg has the truth of it. Aerion's quite the monster. He thinks he's a dragon in human form, you know. That's why he was so wroth at that puppet show. A pity he wasn't born a Fossoway, then he'd think himself an apple and we'd all be a deal safer, but there you are.

George R R Martin

#2. A hedge knight must hold tight to his pride. Without it, he was no more than a sellsword

George R R Martin

#3. A Hedge Knight is the truest kind of knight, Dunk. Other Knights serve the Lords who keep them, or from whom they hold their lands, but we serve where we will, for men whose causes we believe in. Every Knight swears to protect the weak, but we keep the vow the best, I think.

George R R Martin

#4. Three good men dead, to save a hedge knight's foot.

George R R Martin

#5. Even a hedge knight has his honor.

George R R Martin

#6. An expert is somebody who is more than 50 miles from home, has no responsibility for implementing the advice he gives, and shows slides.

Edwin Meese

#7. One by one, the three picture-in-picture mini-screens drop off. They've grown tired of the geek-speak. They have more important things to do than watch the blow-by-blow engineering sausage-making.

Eduardo Suastegui

#8. The earth's lungs, coated in green ooze and thaw, breathed out blossom-scent and sour rot and fungus-must, wet and warm and aware, where before the air had been cold and blind, remote as the moon.

Margo Lanagan

#9. And he pictured her down below, turning slowly in the currents, her skin pale blue in the cold rays of sunlight slanting down through the water, her hair flowing lazily around her face.

Richard Laymon

#10. No, no, no. Dick Cheney forbade me to waste time on his image. I would have liked to have done more.

Mary Matalin