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The preparatory education of candidates for knighthood was long and arduous. -- Thomas Bulfinch
I'm glad a genre writer has got a knighthood, but stunned that it was me. -- Terry Pratchett
The culmination of three trophies was the pinnacle of my career and it has been rewarded with a knighthood. -- Alex Ferguson
When his apprenticeship was finished (the candidate for Knighthood) was received into the Knightly Order by a ritual of sacramental awe... -- Ariel Durant
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 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. -- 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 the priesthood, became an object of ambition to the greatest sovereigns. -- Thomas Bulfinch
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. -- Anthony Hopkins
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. -- Derek Jacobi
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I never accepted a knighthood because to me, is honour enough? -- George Bernard Shaw
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
It even has the same phraseology as the English orders of knighthood, companions and this sort of thing. -- George Woodcock
I turned down a knighthood. It would be like having to wear a suit every day of your life. -- Alan Bennett
For all his horses, knighthoods and championships, he hasn't got two of what I've got. And I don't mean balls! -- Brian Clough
I feel like Ive been engaged to the British Empire since 1980 and tonight you have given me the ring knighthood. -- Steven Spielberg
More than a code of manners in war and love, Chivalry was a moral system, governing the whole of noble life... -- Barbara Tuchman
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. -- Thomas Malory
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. -- Kathy Acker
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. -- Edward Gibbon
One of the nicest things about receiving the accolade of Australia is that, previously, the knighthood was historically for what was termed 'the establishment.' Now, this is an accolade for somebody who comes from a working-class background. Someone whose father was a truck driver and decided to buy a truck. -- Lindsay Fox
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. -- Edmund Spenser
I`ve been all over the world - honorary knighthood . -- Hillary Clinton
In these latter days, knighthood was an honor few Englishmen escaped. -- Arthur C. Clarke

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