Knight Grand Commander

Famous quotes containing the words knight, grand and/or commander:

    “By a knight of ghosts and shadows
    I summon’d am to a tourney
    Ten leagues beyond the wide world’s end:
    Methinks it is no journey.”
    —Unknown. Tom o’ Bedlam’s Song (l. 57–60)

    “One would like to be grand and heroic, if one could; but if not, why try at all? One wants to be very something, very great, very heroic; or if not that, then at least very stylish and very fashionable. It is this everlasting mediocrity that bores me.”
    —Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811–1896)

    “A good old commander and a most kind gentleman.”
    —William Shakespeare (1564–1616)