Famous Quotes & Sayings

Demetri Martin

Knights would have probably liked refrigerator magnets.

Benjamin Cardozo

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

Bryant H. McGill

Women do not need a knight in shining armor or a Prince Charming to come to their rescue.

Charles Kingsley

Toil is the true knight's pastime.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Our civilized world is nothing but a great masquerade. You encounter knights, parsons, soldiers, doctors, lawyers, priests, philosophers and a thousand more: but they are not what they appear - they are merely masks... Usually, as I say, there is nothing but industrialists, businessmen and speculators concealed behind all these masks.

Edmund Spenser

A Gentle Knight was pricking on the plaine.

He was her knight in shining armor. That's the way Daryl was. He was the kind of person who'd light up anybody's moment.

Stephanie Mills

I have mad love for the way we were taught and trained back in the day. I mean, those of us - like Chaka Khan, Patti LaBelle, Gladys Knight - we didn't give into this new wave of celebrity.

Chanel Iman

I have had the privilege of working with the best in the business, from photographers to designers to magazines. There's not much more to ask for but I'm still looking forward to one day working with photographers Mert and Marcus, Tim Walker and Nick Knight.

Catherynne M. Valente

So most people go around with grimy machinery, when all it would take is a bit of spit and polish to make them paladins once more, bold knights and true.

Dustin Diamond

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.

Alex Newell

I have so many [on-set Glee BFFs]. I love Kevin (McHale). I love Amber (Riley); Amber and I are essentially the same person, even though one’s fiercer than the other—don’t tell her it’s me. I love Chris Colfer, he’s a gem. Melissa (Benoist) and Blake (Jenner), I love them. We’re such a tight-knight family because we spend so much time together.

Anatoly Karpov

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

Andrew Wyeth

And, of course, I began drawing so much - wild, undisciplined pencil drawings and watercolors of knights battling and such.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

She hath no loyal knight and true, The Lady of Shalott.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

And sometimes through the mirror blue The knights come riding two and two.

Dan Brown

Langdon turned to Sophie. "Who is that? What... happened?" Teabing hobbled over. "You were rescued by a knight brandishing an Excalibur made by Acme Orthopedic.

David Baldacci

Confidence is one thing, disrespect is quite another. (Justice Elizabeth Knight)

A maiden knight - to me is given/ Such hope, I know not fear.

I wanted to be a rock-and-roller, ... Not even a star, but one of the back -ups, like a Pip in Gladys Knight and the Pips.

Geoffrey Chaucer

Habit maketh no monk, ne wearing of gilt spurs maketh no knight.

George Bernard Shaw

I never accepted a knighthood because to me, is honour enough?

Jim Butcher

This is ridiculous. I look like the Games Workshop version of a Jedi Knight.

[The Front Page] is still full of peppy banter as it sends its seedy knights after cheap scoops.

Kirsten Dunst

And sometimes, you need your knight in shining armour,

J. K. Rowling

Yeah, we’ll call you,” muttered Ron as the knight disappeared, “If we ever need someone mental.

Marie de France

In times gone by there lived a Count of Ponthieu, who loved chivalry and the pleasures of the world beyond measure, and moreover was a stout knight and a gallant gentleman

Lauren Oliver

So are you going to be my knight in shining armor or what?' Kent does a little bow. 'You know I can't resist a damsel in distress.

Paul Sorvino

Technically, I'm a knight. My family goes back a thousand years in the Naples area. We're a titled, noble people.

Mick Jagger

Anarchy is the only slight glimmer of hope.

Harold Pinter

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.

Jeremy Clarkson

I therefore have to use The Force. And weirdly, this doesn't work very well. I don't understand why, because on the last census, I put my religion down as Jedi Knight...

George R. R. Martin

Lords are gold and knights steel, but two links can't make a chain. You also need silver and iron and lead, tin and copper and bronze and all the rest, and those are farmers and smiths and merchants and the like. A chain needs all sorts of metals, and a land needs all sorts of people.