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)

    Loneliness is more likely to lead to fussy housekeeping than to grand views of the Universe.
    Mason Cooley (b. 1927)

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