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)

    You’re a grand old flag;
    You’re a high-flying flag.
    And forever in peace may you wave.
    George M. Cohan (1878–1942)

    A commander in the field must sometimes go against the king’s orders.
    Chinese proverb.