Knighthood Quotes

22 quotes by 17 authors

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… — Donald Bradman
I feel like Ive been engaged to the British Empire since 1980 and tonight you have given me the ring knighthood. — Steven Spielberg
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… — Harold Pinter
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… — Thomas Bulfinch
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… — Edward Gibbon
More than a code of manners in war and love, Chivalry was a moral system, governing the whole of noble life... — Barbara Tuchman
When his apprenticeship was finished (the candidate for Knighthood) was received into the Knightly Order by a ritual of sacramental awe... — Ariel Durant
I turned down a knighthood. It would be like having to wear a suit every day of your life. — Alan Bennett
The culmination of three trophies was the pinnacle of my career and it has been rewarded with a knighthood. — Alex Ferguson
The preparatory education of candidates for knighthood was long and arduous. — Thomas Bulfinch
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… — Derek Jacobi
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. — Sean Connery
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. — Anthony Hopkins
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… — Anthony Hopkins
I'm glad a genre writer has got a knighthood, but stunned that it was me. — Terry Pratchett
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… — Kathy Acker
They'll kill for that knighthood, but don't ever think they'll die for it. — George R. R. Martin
None of us is ever ready,' he (Ned) said. 'For knighthood?' 'For death. — George R. R. Martin
Knighthood lies above eternity; it doesnâ€™t live off fame, but rather deeds. — Dejan Stojanovic
It even has the same phraseology as the English orders of knighthood, companions and this sort of thing. — George Woodcock

Who Wrote These Knighthood Quotes

17 authors contributed a total of 22 Knighthood Quotes as follows: