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 Olympian gods cannot have grand passions because they cannot die.
    Mason Cooley (b. 1927)

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