Hedge Knight Quotes

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A hedge knight must hold tight to his pride. Without it, he was no more than a sellsword
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George R.R. Martin (The Hedge Knight (The Tales of Dunk and Egg, #1))
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Why?” he asked Pate. β€œWhat am I to them?” β€œA knight who remembered his vows,” the smith said.
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George R.R. Martin (The Hedge Knight (The Tales of Dunk and Egg, #1))
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Even a hedge knight has his honor.
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George R.R. Martin (A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms (The Tales of Dunk and Egg, #1-3))
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Sweet lady," said Florian, "all men are fools, and all men are knights, where women are concerned.
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George R.R. Martin (The Hedge Knight (The Hedge Knight Graphic Novels, #1))
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A Hedge Knight is the truest kind of knight, Dunk. Other Knights serve the Lords who keep them, or from whom they hold their lands, but we serve where we will, for men whose causes we believe in. Every Knight swears to protect the weak, but we keep the vow the best, I think.
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George R.R. Martin (The Hedge Knight (The Tales of Dunk and Egg, #1))
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Dunk the lunk, thick as a castle wall.
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George R.R. Martin (The Hedge Knight (The Tales of Dunk and Egg, #1))
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If she wants I can find a hundred men and line them up before her naked, and she can pick the one she likes,” the king said. β€œI would sooner she wed a lord, but if she prefers a hedge knight or a merchant or Pate the Pig Boy, I am past the point of caring, so long as she picks someone.
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George R.R. Martin (Fire & Blood (A Targaryen History, #1))
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Three good men dead, to save a hedge knight's foot.
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George R.R. Martin (A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms (The Tales of Dunk and Egg, #1-3))
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The world made no sense when a great prince died so a hedge knight might live.
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George R.R. Martin (A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms (The Tales of Dunk and Egg, #1-3))
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Egg has the truth of it. Aerion's quite the monster. He thinks he’s a dragon in human form, you know. That’s why he was so wroth at that puppet show. A pity he wasn't born a Fossoway, then he’d think himself an apple and we’d all be a deal safer, but there you are.
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George R.R. Martin (The Hedge Knight (The Tales of Dunk and Egg, #1))
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A hedge knight must hold tight to his pride. Without it, he was no more than a sellsword.
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George R.R. Martin (A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms (The Tales of Dunk and Egg, #1-3))
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I stalked into the moonlit garden and lost myself in its labyrinth of hedges and flower beds. I didn't care where I was going. After a while, I paused in the rose garden. The moonlight stained the red petals a deep purple and cast a silvery sheen on the white blooms. 'My father had this garden planted for my mother,' Tamlin said from behind me. I didn't bother to face him. I dug my nails into my palms as he stopped by my side. 'It was a mating present.' I stared the flowers without seeing anything. The flowers I'd painted on the table at home were probably crumbling or gone by now. Nesta might have even scraped them off. My nails pricked the skin of my palms. Tamlin providing for them or no, glamouring their memories or no, I'd been... erased from their lives. Forgotten. I'd let him erase me. He'd offered me paints and the space and time to practice; he'd shown me pools of starlight; he'd saved my life like some kind of feral knight in a legend, and I'd gulped it down like faerie wine.
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Sarah J. Maas (A Court of Thorns and Roses (A Court of Thorns and Roses, #1))
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(...) the farming districts, the civilized world over, are dependent upon the cities for the gathering of the harvests. Then it is, when the land is spilling its ripe wealth to waste, that the street folk, who have been driven away from the soil, are called back to it again. But in England they return, not as prodigals, but as outcasts still, as vagrants and pariahs, to be doubted and flouted by their country brethren, to sleep in jails and casual wards, or under the hedges, and to live the Lord knows how. It is estimated that Kent alone requires eighty thousand of the street people to pick her hops. And out they come, obedient to the call, which is the call of their bellies and of the lingering dregs of adventure- lust still in them. Slum, stews, and ghetto pour them forth, and the festering contents of slum, stews, and ghetto are undiminished. Yet they overrun the country like an army of ghouls, and the country does not want them. They are out of place. As they drag their squat, misshapen bodies along the highways and byways, they resemble some vile spawn from underground. Their very presence, the fact of their existence, is an outrage to the fresh bright sun and the green and growing things. The clean, upstanding trees cry shame upon them and their withered crookedness, and their rottenness is a slimy desecration of the sweetness and purity of nature. Is the picture overdrawn? It all depends. For one who sees and thinks life in terms of shares and coupons, it is certainly overdrawn. But for one who sees and thinks life in terms of manhood and womanhood, it cannot be overdrawn. Such hordes of beastly wretchedness and inarticulate misery are no compensation for a millionaire brewer who lives in a West End palace, sates himself with the sensuous delights of London's golden theatres, hobnobs with lordlings and princelings, and is knighted by the king. Wins his spurs- God forbid! In old time the great blonde beasts rode in the battle's van and won their spurs by cleaving men from pate to chin. And, after all, it is far finer to kill a strong man with a clean-slicing blow of singing steel than to make a beast of him, and of his seed through the generations, by the artful and spidery manipulation of industry and politics.
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Jack London (The People of the Abyss)
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But the old man, Set Arlan, everyday at evenfall he'd say, 'I wonder what the morrow will bring.' He never knew, no more than we do.
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George R.R. Martin (The Hedge Knight, Vol. 1)
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Hedge knights had an unsavory reputation. β€œA hedge knight and a robber knight are two sides of the same sword,” it was said.
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George R.R. Martin (A Feast for Crows (A Song of Ice and Fire #4))
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You laid hands upon the blood of the dragon and for that offense, you must be punished.
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Ben Avery (The Hedge Knight (The Tales of Dunk and Egg, #1))
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Some knights never name their horses. That way, when they die in battle, the grief is not so hard to bear. There are always more horses to be had, but it's hard to lose a faithful friend.
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Ben Avery (The Hedge Knight II: Sworn Sword (The Tales of Dunk and Egg, #2))
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I have heard a thousand empty courtesies in my time, but you are the first knight who ever said "pissing" in my presence. Those pissing contents are how lords judge one another's strength, and woe to any man who shows weakness. A woman needs to piss twice as hard, if she hopes to rule.
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Ben Avery (The Hedge Knight II: Sworn Sword (The Tales of Dunk and Egg, #2))
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How could any debutante consider him dull merely because he refused to play whist? To her, all his ancestors’ lineage of fighting knights, keen leadership and stern authority were encapsulated within his lean, muscled body which pulsed with vigour and power. Sans tailcoat, she could appreciate his…attire: immaculate white billowing shirt sleeves, an equally immaculate burgundy waistcoat that enhanced his broad chest, immaculate cravat with a spanking diamond, immaculate black breeches which clung in all the right places and immacu– actually, no, his hair appeared scruffy, as though he’d been heaved through a hedge.
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Emily Windsor (The Duke of Diamonds (A Lady to Suit, #1))
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A hedge knight is the truest kind of knight, Dunk,” the old man had told him, a long long time ago. β€œOther knights serve the lords who keep them, or from whom they hold their lands, but we serve where we will, for men whose causes we believe in. Every knight swears to protect the weak and innocent, but we keep the vow best, I think.
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George R.R. Martin (A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms (The Tales of Dunk and Egg, #1-3))
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A hedge knight is the truest kind of knight, Dunk. Other knights serve the lords who keep them, or from whom they hold their lands, but we serve where we will, for men whose causes we believe in. Every knight swears to protect the weak and innocent, but we keep the vow the best, I think.
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Ben Avery (The Hedge Knight (The Tales of Dunk and Egg, #1))
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Trying to retain his enthusiasm, he led her toward the opening in the overgrown boxwood hedge where a pair of musk rose bushes formed a thorny turnstile, marking the exit from the garden to the fallow fields and woods beyond. They stopped to take deep, lung-filling inhalations of the musk roses' delicious, honeylike perfume. Exclaiming with unaffected joy at the roses' late-blooming beauty, Alice cupped one of the creamy white blossoms gracefully in her gloved hand. He picked one, pulled off the thorns, and offered it to her. She took it in silence, searching his face warily, then turned away and walked on. Lucien just stood there watching her, praying he wouldn't do anything wrong.
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Gaelen Foley (Lord of Fire (Knight Miscellany, #2))
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King Aenys himself. His scorn drove others to offer their swords. The names of the four Maegor chose are writ large in the history of Westeros: Ser Bramm of Blackhull, a hedge knight; Ser Rayford Rosby; Ser Guy Lothston, called Guy the Glutton; and Ser Lucifer Massey, Lord of Stonedance. The names of the seven Warrior’s Sons have likewise come down to us. They were: Ser Damon Morrigen, called Damon the Devout, Grand Captain of the Warrior’s Sons; Ser Lyle Bracken; Ser Harys Horpe, called Death’s Head Harry; Ser Aegon Ambrose; Ser Dickon Flowers, the Bastard of Beesbury; Ser Willam the Wanderer; and Ser Garibald of the Seven Stars, the septon knight. [Dick Bean] F&B
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George R.R. Martin
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After a time some of the hedge knights and men-at-arms amongst his rabble began to paint images of the β€œCock o’ the Moon” on their shields, and a brisk trade grew up in clubs, pendants, and staffs carved to resemble Moon’s member.
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George R.R. Martin (Fire & Blood (A Targaryen History, #1))