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 style follows suit with all great passion. It disdains to please, it forgets to persuade. It commands. It wills.
    Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)

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