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- About the last thing I ever wanted in life was a knighthood, and even today some forty years after the event, I… — 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.… — Harold Pinter
- Religion united its influence with those of loyalty and love, and the order of knighthood, endowed with all the sanctity and religious… — 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… — 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… — 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