Top 34 Knight Quotes

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Knights were the warriors of the Middle Ages. With that in mind, check out the top 34 knight quotes.

#34 – 30. Knight Quotes

34. Bobby Knight told me this: ‘There is nothing that a good defense cannot beat a better offense.’ In other words a good offense wins. – Dan Quayle

33. ‘The Dark Knight’ is a really good movie that reached both critics and mainstream audiences. – Anurag Kashyap

32. I believe that whatever doesn’t kill you, simply makes you… stranger. – Heath Ledger

31. We are no longer the knights who say Ni! We are now the knights who say ekki-ekki-ekki-pitang-zoom-boing! – Graham Chapman

30. 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

#29 – 20. Knight Quotes

29. The judge is not the knight-errant, roaming at will in pursuit of his own ideal of beauty or of goodness. – Benjamin Cardozo

28. I found the offer of a knighthood something that I couldn’t possibly accept. I found it to be somehow squalid, a knighthood. There’s a relationship to government about knights. – Harold Pinter

27. My whole career has been fulfilling my childhood fantasies, playing characters that are larger than life, getting to play a knight, an elf, a prince, and a soldier. – Orlando Bloom

26. The fact that a knight is temporarily on the edge of the board is of no great significance. – Anatoly Karpov

25. Marriage commissioners who choose not to marry homosexuals are being fired. A Knights of Columbus chapter in British Columbia is in court because it chooses not allow a lesbian group to use its facility for marriage ceremonies. The list goes on. – Stockwell Day

24. I’m your knight in shining armor. I’m here to save you from Linkin Park. – Rufus Wainwright

23. We were king’s men, knights, and heroes . . . but some knights are dark and full of terror, my lady. War makes monsters of us all. Are you saying you are monsters? I am saying we are human. You are not the only one with wounds, Lady Brienne – George R. R. Martin

22. Then when Gladys Knight came in to do my songs that was the straw that broke the camel’s back. – Brenda Holloway

21. For as well as I have loved thee heretofore, mine heart will not serve now to see thee; for through thee and me is the flower of kings and knights destroyed. – Thomas Malory

20. The world organization debates disarmament in one room and, in the next room, moves the knights and pawns that make national arms imperative. – E. B. White

#19 – 10. Knight Quotes

19. And, of course, I began drawing so much – wild, undisciplined pencil drawings and watercolors of knights battling and such. – Andrew Wyeth

18. 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

17. The code of the knight is still the code of the gentleman today. – Baden Powell de Aquino

16. 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

15. Generals think war should be waged like the tourneys of the Middle Ages. I have no use for knights; I need revolutionaries. – Adolf Hitler

14. The sword was a very elegant weapon in the days of the samurai. You had honor and chivalry much like the knights, and yet it was a gruesome and horrific weapon. – Dustin Diamond , Knight quotes for honor

13. The Bishop and Knight, in contradistinction to the Queen and Rook, are called Minor Pieces. – Howard Staunton

12. The story of Ulysses and Agamemnon and Menelaus, of Jesus, of the Good Knight of Chaucer, lives in every one of us. – James Lee Burke

11. This China trade deal is basically like the Bobby Knight of trade deals. You know, you abuse, you abuse, you abuse, and then they say ‘Well, OK, we’ll let you try one more time.’ – David E. Bonior

10. 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

#9 – 1. Knight Quotes

9. No false knight or lying priest ever prospered, I believe, in any age, but certainly not in the dark ones. Men prospered then, only in following openly-declared purposes , and preaching candidly beloved and trusted creeds. – John Ruskin

8. I always wanted to be a cowboy, and Jedi Knights are basically cowboys in space, right? – Liam Neeson

7. Knight without fear and without reproach. – Richard Harris

6. A true knight is fuller of bravery in the midst, than in the beginning of danger. – Philip Sidney

5. And much more am I sorrier for my good knights’ loss than for the loss of my fair queen; for queens I might have enough, but such a fellowship of good knights shall never be together in no company. – Thomas Malory

4. Her father said she was a princess. He did not see that she was a brave knight. – Anne Ursu

3. I looked it at like this way. To get folks to like you, as a screen player I mean, I figured you had to sort of be their ideal. I don’t mean a handsome knight riding a white horse, but a fella who answered the description of a right guy. – Gary Cooper

2. 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

1. A Marine should be sworn to the patient endurance of hardships, like the ancient knights; and it is not the least of these necessary hardships to have to serve with sailors. – Bernard Law Montgomery

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