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)

    “The grand Perhaps! We look on helplessly,
    There the old misgivings, crooked questions are.”
    —Robert Browning (1812–1889)

    “Every commander is alone.”
    —Michael Powell. Captain Lansdorff (Peter Finch)