Knight quotes

Discover inspiring quotes about valor, chivalry, and honor from legendary knights throughout history on our quote website's Knight category. Embark on a journey of courage and noble virtues.

Newspaper men, perhaps more than any other class, are rated by ability.

- Franklin Knight Lane

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

- Howard Staunton

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

My stars and my stripes are your dream and your labors.

- Franklin Knight Lane

What's happened has happened, so what can we do to make it better for tomorrow and the day after? That's why we're here.

- Ian Botham

To me, it doesn't matter how good you are. Sport is all about playing and competing. Whatever you do in cricket and in sport, enjoy it, be positive and try to win.

- Ian Botham

I watched children dying. That will be the image that will stay with me.

- Ian Botham

There will be no politics, no ifs and buts; if we see something and feel that work needs to be done, we will get people here we can rely on and ensure it is done in the same thorough way as our other projects.

- Ian Botham

Soccer and cricket were my main sports growing up. I had trials as a soccer player with a few clubs interested, Crystal Palace being one, but it was cricket which became my chosen profession.

- Ian Botham

You will attract the younger generation and they might well prove tougher than the older generation. What we are trying to do is to look at the future and see what we can do to bring some stability back to people's lives.

- Ian Botham

I half knew what to expect when I saw the cricket ground in the morning. It was when I started to talk to people working out there, I began to find what I was looking for.

- Ian Botham

Retiring for good wasn't difficult. I knew at the time it was right. I was no longer capable of achieving the standards I'd set myself and there was no light at the end of the tunnel.

- Ian Botham

I can remember running around at the age of 3, wanting to play golf, cricket and football. I was always active, one way or another, driving my parents mad.

- Ian Botham

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

I'm your knight in shining armor. I'm here to save you from Linkin Park.

- Rufus Wainwright

No man should have a political office because he wants a job.

- Franklin Knight Lane

Genghis Khan was a fascinating man and way ahead of his time.

- Ian Botham

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

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

The people in the villages had turned in on themselves. You can understand it. When you have a bad day on the field, what do you do? Talk to your teammates.

- Ian Botham