K Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with K. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Knavery is the best defense against a knave.”
“Knavery seems to be so much a the striking feature of its inhabitants that it may not in the end be an evil that they will become aliens to this kingdom.”
“Knavery's plain face is never seen till used.”
Source: Othello: Third Series
“Knaves starve not in the land of fools.”
Source: The Poetical Works of Charles Churchill: With Memoir, Critical Dissertation, and Explanatory Notes
“Knaves will come and knaves will go.”
“Knaves will thrive when honest plainness knows not how to live.”
Source: The Maid's Revenge. A Tragedy [in Five Acts, in Prose and Verse].
“Knee replacement is serious stuff. And it actually could have made me worse”
“Knee-deep in the cosmic overwhelm, I’m stricken by the ricochet wonder of it all: the plain everythingness of everything, in cahoots with the everythingness of everything else.”
Source: Jaguar of Sweet Laughter: New and Selected Poems
“Knee-Jerk Irony: The tendency to make flippant ironic comments as a reflexive matter of course in everyday conversation.”
“Knee-jerk liberals and all the certified saints of sanctified humanism are quick to condemn this great and much-maligned Transylvanian statesman.”
“Kneecaps only exist to get hit with claw-hammers; grace only exists to be fallen from.”
Source: I, Lucifer: Finally, the Other Side of the Story
“Kneel and swear to the Lord Dragon, or you will be knelt.”
“Kneel down to pray. Step up to serve. Reach out to rescue. Each is a vital page of God's blueprint to make a house a home and a home a heaven.”
“Kneel!” he ordered.
My head raised in defiance, I stepped forward. “I am Princess Andrea de Montemaior. I will kneel to no one,” I said to the shadows inside.”
Source: Two Moon Princess
“Kneel or bleed.”
Source: Glass Sword
“Kneel to nobody; bow to everyone.”
“Kneeling before the Eyucharist is truly a profession of freedom. In the end, it is the most worthwhile and radical remedy against the idolatries of yesterday and of today.”
Source: Could You Not Watch with Me One Hour?: How to Cultivate a Deeper Relationship with the Lord through Eucharistic Adoration
“KNEES FOLDED, SPREAD FAR APART from each other, parallel to the floor—like those of a monk sitting in a lotus pose and peacefully meditating. Except, she’s not meditating; she’s dancing, and she’s not at peace. Sweat forming, flowing down her neck and cleavage, dampening her vest. Her fingers gripping her waist. Only her toes touch the ground to kick off and defeat gravity for one moment, until she drops back to the floor on just her toes, making it a flawless leaping-footwork of Bharatanatyam—a traditional dance.
Well, nearly flawless.
Soon, her one hand releases her waist in the middle of the dance, breaking the perfection of the footwork. She brushes nothing in particular from her face as if she’s pushing away her blue strands of hair, but she is not. Her hair is tied into a ponytail reaching her waist. No loose strands of hair are annoying her that she’d need to touch her face. At least, not during a dance.”
Source: The Oldest Dance
“Knees suddenly weak, she reached for his forearms to stabilize herself. “You came for me.”
He beamed, looking for all the world like a selfless, daring hero.
“Don’t sound so surprised.” Dropping the cane, he pulled her into a crushing embrace that tore her away from Wolf and lifted her clean off the floor. “It turns out you are worth a lot of money on the black market.”
Source: Cress
“Knelt on those stars and mountains inked on his knees. He would bow for no one and nothing-
But his mate. His equal.”
Source: A Court of Mist and Fury
“Knew I how to pray, to intercede for your [broken] Foot were intuitive - but I am but a Pagan.”
“knew only too well that the path of grief could not be scripted.”
Source: Among the Mad
“knew the futility of agonizing over why things had transpired as they had. What could have happened, did.”
Source: King of Foxes
“Knicks and dull edges are abominations, so use knives and hatchets for nothing but they were made for.”
Source: Camping
“Knife by the bed
Wary of thieves—
A chilly night
- Masaoka Shiki”
Source: Haiku Illustrated: Classic Japanese Short Poems
“Knife crime and gun crime is poverty-driven, and poverty leads to insecurity.”
“Knight and Vaughn are the closest to each other, practically brothers, which is weird because they are also like fire and ice. Vaughn is a crazy artist with psychotic tendencies, and Knight is the definition of a popular jock.
One is Edward Scissorhands; the other is Zac Efron's prettier long-lost brother.”
Source: Pretty Reckless
“Knight is gorgeous, and not only does he know it, but he would also advertise it on a billboard if it were possible.”
Source: Pretty Reckless
“Knight, of course, felt that anyone's willing assistance tainted the whole thing. Either you are hidden or you're not, no middle ground. He wished to be unconditionally alone, exiled to an island of his own creation, an uncontacted tribe of one.”
Source: The Stranger in the Woods: The Extraordinary Story of the Last True Hermit
“Knight’s helmet and hunter’s horn,
Wise words of those grown old,
Rage between brothers,
The lute-playing of women’s souls.
Branch upon branch urged on,
Nowhere disentangled ...
One is free! Oh, climb! ... oh, climb! ...
Ah, but they break off.
Yet one, reaching the top, bends
Into a lyre.”
Source: Sonnets to Orpheus
“Knight saved it with his back arm”
“Knight takes Knight,” I called into the cloudy night air. “Check.”
“Knight without fear and without reproach.”
“Knighterrantry is a most chuckleheaded trade, and it is tedious hard work, too, but I begin to see that there is money in it, after all, if you have luck. Not that I would ever engage in it, as a business, for I wouldn't. No sound and legitimate business can be established on a basis of speculation. A successful whirl in the knighterrantry line--now what is it when you blow away the nonsense and come down to the cold facts? It's just a corner in pork, that's all.”
Source: A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
“Knighthood became an anachronism not because its weapons, but because its ‘idealism’ and irrationalism had become out of date. The knight did not understand the motive forces behind the new economy, the new society and the new state; he still persisted in regarding the middle class with its money and ‘narrow-minded’ commercial outlook as an anomaly. The men of the middle class knew much better where they stood with the knights. It amused them to join in the masquerade of the knightly tournaments and the ‘courts of love’, but they treated all such activities as mere sport; in their business activities they remained hard-headed and free from illusions in a world which was the very opposite of chivalrous.”
Source: The Social History of Art, Volume 1: From Prehistoric Times to the Middle Ages
“Knighthood lies above eternity; it doesn’t live off fame, but rather deeds.”
“Knighthood. Was he even worthy? Just a little while ago, he’d have answered yes without a doubt, but now, facing the cross and his own desires, he wasn’t so sure. Courage, loyalty, obedience, faith. If even a man like Ulric could act against those virtues, then they were not something one possessed, but something to be constantly guarded and reclaimed.”
Source: The Lion of Kent
“Knightley Academy stood out against the moonlight in silhouette, a ramshackle collection of chimneys, turrets and gables. Both boys stopped to take in the sight of the manicured lawns and tangled woods, the soaring chapel and the ivy-covered brick of the headmaster's house. They were home. For this, Henry felt, was home. Not some foreign castle encircled by guard towers, but this cozy, bizarre assortment of buildings with its gossiping kitchen maids and eccentric professors and clever students.”
Source: The Secret Prince
“Knightly love is blent with reverence As heavenly air is blent with heavenly blue.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)
“Knights are cavalry, bishops are archers, rooks are cannons and queens are wizards.”
“Knights die in battle,” Catelyn reminded her. Brienne looked at her with those blue and beautiful eyes. “As ladies die in childbed. No one sings songs about them.”
Source: George R. R. Martin's A Game of Thrones 5-Book Boxed Set (Song of Ice and Fire Series): A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, A Feast for Crows, and and A Dance with Dragons
“Knights of the spirit; warriors in the cause Of justice absolute 'twixt man and man.”
“Knights who go charging after fire-breathing dragons out of some sense of duty to protect their fair maidens die in vain.”
Source: A Wind Named Amnesia / Invader Summer
“Knights would have probably liked refrigerator magnets.”
“Knik to Willow, the race is on,
across the Tundra, miles from home,
Girl in Red flies through the snow,
shimmering dreams of ice-rainbows.
Sinuous bodies seem to fly
like a wolf-pack going by!
How they thunder as they run
steaming fur, in icy sun.”
Source: The Girl in The Red Cape
“Knit on with confidence and hope through all crises.”
“Knit your hearts with an unslipping knot.”
Source: An index to the remarkable passages and words made use of by Shakespeare
“Knitted fur is so modern and light, it makes this retro shape cool again.”
“Knitters just can't watch TV without doing something else. Knitters just can't wait in line, knitters just can't sit waiting at the doctor's office. Knitters need knitting to add a layer of interest in other, less constructive ways.”
Source: Free-Range Knitter: The Yarn Harlot Writes Again
“Knitters use knitting to value-add to the world.”