Knighthood Quotes

None of us is ever ready,' he (Ned) said. 'For knighthood?' 'For death.

I don't know why they gave me a knighthood - though it's very nice of them - but I only ever use the title in the U.S. The Americans insist on it and get offended if I don't.

They'll kill for that knighthood, but don't ever think they'll die for it.

I found the offer of a knighthood something that I couldn't possibly accept. I found it to be somehow squalid, a knighthood. There's a relationship to government about knights.

Every person who is offered a knighthood has the opportunity to say yes or no. You get a letter from the Prime Minister saying you've been recommended for a knighthood and there are two little boxes, one says yes, one says no.

But now that she had achieved knighthood, and thought and acted as she wanted and decided, for one has to act in this way in order to save this world, she neither noticed nor cared that all the people around her thought she was insane.

I`ve been all over the world - honorary knighthood .

I'm glad a genre writer has got a knighthood, but stunned that it was me.

The knighthood I received was a fantastic honour but it's not something I've ever used and I don't think I ever will.

Knighthood lies above eternity; it doesn’t live off fame, but rather deeds.

The knighthood was a tremendous honour, I don't dismiss it. But I feel embarrassed by the flowery, theatrical stuff that goes with being an actor.

The culmination of three trophies was the pinnacle of my career and it has been rewarded with a knighthood.

Vain-glorious man, when fluttering wind does blow In his light wing's, is lifted up to sky; The scorn of-knighthood and true chivalry. To think, without desert of gentle deed And noble worth, to be advanced high, Such praise is shame, but honour, virtue's meed, Doth bear the fairest flower in honourable seed.

More than a code of manners in war and love, Chivalry was a moral system, governing the whole of noble life.

The preparatory education of candidates for knighthood was long and arduous.

I feel like Ive been engaged to the British Empire since 1980 and tonight you have given me the ring knighthood.

For all his horses, knighthoods and championships, he hasn't got two of what I've got. And I don't mean balls!

I turned down a knighthood. It would be like having to wear a suit every day of your life.

About the last thing I ever wanted in life was a knighthood, and even today some forty years after the event, I find it difficult to come to terms with a life where old and valued friends insist on calling me 'Sir' instead of Don, simply because they think it is protocol. But I have consciously shouldered these burdens because I felt that I was the medium through which cricket could achieve a higher status and gain maximum support from the people, not only in Australia but throughout the world.

Always Sir Arthur lost so much blood that it was a marvel he stood on his feet, but he was so full of knighthood that knightly he endured the pain.

When his apprenticeship was finished (the candidate for Knighthood) was received into the Knightly Order by a ritual of sacramental awe.

Anarchy is the only slight glimmer of hope.

Religion united its influence with those of loyalty and love, and the order of knighthood, endowed with all the sanctity and religious awe that attended the priesthood, became an object of ambition to the greatest sovereigns.

As for this young Ali, one cannot but like him. A noble-minded creature, as he shows himself, now and always afterwards; full of affection, of fiery daring. Something chivalrous in him; brave as a lion; yet with a grace, a truth and affection worthy of Christian knighthood.

I never accepted a knighthood because to me, is honour enough?