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

— Ariel Durant

“In these latter days, knighthood was an honor few Englishmen escaped.”

— Arthur C. Clarke

“He was confounded by the idea that passing the prime of your life in a cubicle, spending hours a day at a computer, in…

— Michael Finkel

“His chief form of entertainment was reading. The last moments he was in a cabin were usually spent scanning bookshelves and nightstands. The life…

— Michael Finkel

“From the moment he looked through the lens of his father’s microscope to the day he was knighted by Queen Victoria, his life was…

— Lindsey Fitzharris

“Uneasy lies the head that wears a Knighthood”

— Dean Cavanagh

The impenetrable stupidity of Prince George (son-in-law of James II) served his turn. It was his habit, when any news was told him, to…

— Thomas B. Macaulay

“I would have thee to know, Sancho, that it is the glory of knights-errant to go without eating for a month, and even when…

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

I love to read the dedications of old books written in monarchies for they invariably honor some (usually insignificant) knight or duke with fulsome…

— Stephen Jay Gould

It even has the same phraseology as the English orders of knighthood, companions and this sort of thing.

— George Woodcock

“Should we Knights, in years to come, dwindle into memory, perhaps the world will recall that in the days of our demise we stood,…

— A.S. Peterson

Authorised royal biographers are so straitjacketed, deferential, fawning, and unadventurous that they can only be after a knighthood. Or they're completely scurrilous and insolent,…

— Peter Morgan