“The winner of this tournament - no, no, the privilege - will have the honour of rescuing the beautiful Princess Fiona from the fiery pit of that dragon! Should the winner fail to return, the runner-up shall take his place, and so on and so forth... Some of you may die, but that is a sacrifice I am willing to make.”

John Lithgow - Lord Farquaad

“In 1539, these crusading knights persuaded the Emperor Charles V to give them the island of Malta. He made them but one condition: they were to pay him, each year, the tribute of one falcon, in acknowledgment that Malta was still under Spain.”

Sydney Greenstreet - Kasper Gutman

“-Kasper Gutman: Do you have any conception of the extreme, the immeasurable wealth of the Order at that time?
- Sam Spade: I imagine they were pretty well fixed.
- Kasper Gutman: Pretty well is putting it mildly. They were rolling in wealth, sir.”

Sydney Greenstreet - Kasper Gutman
Humphrey Bogart - Samuel Spade

“A knight proves his worthiness by his deeds.”
Kieran Culkin - Kevin Dillon

“Back in the Middle Ages, in more noble times, when a knight failed his king, that knight would throw himself onto his sword to avoid the humiliation of being ostracized by his peers for his incompetence and cowardice.”
Gregg Henry - Robert Gant