The Saint's Tragedy (1848), Act i, scene ii, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
Attributed
“Knights had no meaning in this game. It wasn't a game for knights.”
Source: The Big Sleep (1939), Chapter 28
Context: I looked down at the chessboard. The move with the knight was wrong. I put it back where I had moved it from. Knights had no meaning in this game. It wasn't a game for knights.
Source: The Mysterious Benedict Society
“A Gentle Knight was pricking on the plaine.”
Canto 1, stanza 1
The Faerie Queene (1589–1596), Book I
“To the knights of faith nobody believes.”
”The Thin Thread,” p. 64
Circling: 1978-1987 (1993), Sequence: “A Warden with No Keys”
cue Python sketch: "Upper Class Twit of the Year"
From PBS series Monty Python's Personal Best: John Cleese's Personal Best (2006), playing role of senile old man.
Source: Monty Python and the Holy Grail (Book): Mønti Pythøn Ik Den Hølie Gräilen
“Then were they afeard when they saw a knight.”
Book I, ch. 23
Le Morte d'Arthur (c. 1469) (first known edition 1485)
“The very purpose of a knight is to fight on behalf of a lady.”
“We need knew knights, but without swords.”
“Knights,” p. 82
The Sun Watches the Sun (1999), Sequence: “What After”
