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)

    What is grand is necessarily obscure to weak men. That which can be made explicit to the idiot is not worth my care.
    William Blake (1757–1827)

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