Quotes
Quotes about Knight
He was a veray parfit gentil knight.
A gentle knight was pricking on the plaine.
The hum of either army stilly sounds,
That the fixed sentinels almost receive
The secret whispers of each other's watch;
Fire answers fire, and through their paly flames
Each battle sees the other's umbered face;
Steed threatens steed, in high and boastful neighs
Piercing the night's dull ear, and from the tents
The armourers, accomplishing the knights,
With busy hammers closing rivets up,
Give dreadful note of preparation.
As much valour is to be found in feasting as in fighting, and some of our city captains and carpet knights will make this good, and prove it.
We can make majors and officers every year, but not scholars; kings can invest knights and barons, as Sigismund the emperor confessed.
A prince can make a belted knight,
A marquis, duke, and a' that;
But an honest man's aboon his might,
Guid faith, he maunna fa' that.
Torn from their destined page (unworthy meed
Of knightly counsel and heroic deed).
The knight's bones are dust,
And his good sword rust;
His soul is with the saints, I trust.
Ay, knave, because thou strikest as a knight,
Being but knave, I hate thee all the more.
Toil is the true knight's pastime.
Knightly love is blent with reverence
As heavenly air is blent with heavenly blue.
Note 3.Beaumont and Fletcher: The Knight of the Burning Pestle, act i. sc. 3.
Accustom him to everything, that he may not be a Sir Paris, a carpet-knight, but a sinewy, hardy, and vigorous young man.
Soft carpet-knights, all scenting musk and amber.
Habit maketh no monke, ne wearing of guilt spurs maketh no knight.
A true knight is fuller of bravery in the midst, than in the beginning of danger.
Knight without fear and without reproach. [Fr., Chevalier sans peur et sans reproche.]
What baron or squire Or knight of the shire Lives half so well as a holy friar.
Or ever the knightly years were gone With the old world to the grave, I was a king in Babylon And you were a Christian slave.
As much valour is to be found in feasting as in fighting, and some of our city captains and carpet knights will make this good, and prove it.
Steed threatens steed, in high and boastful neighs Piercing the night's dull ear; and from the tents The armorers accomplishing the knights, With busy hammers closing rivets up, Give dreadful note of preparation.
The Jackdaw sat in the Cardinal's chair! Bishop and Abbot and Prior were there, Many a monk and many a friar, Many a knight and many a squire, With a great many more of lesser degree,-- In sooth a goodly company; And they served the Lord Primate on bended knee. Never, I ween, Was a prouder seen, Read of in books or dreamt of in dreams, Than the Cardinal Lord Archbishop of Rheims.
A true knight is fuller of bravery in the midst, than in the beginning of danger.
I thought of myself as a species of knight errant attacking dragons single-handedly and rescuing musical virtue in distress.
MISERICORDE, n. A dagger which in mediaeval warfare was used by the foot soldier to remind an unhorsed knight that he was mortal.
