Top 32 Knighthood Quotes & Sayings

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.

For a brief moment, Ian Fleming made being an Englishman seem sexy, even to the French. He should have been awarded a knighthood, even possibly the Garter.

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

A knighthood would be a bit too much. An OBE or an MBE or whatever they are called, one of those would be more elegant.

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.

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.

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

The knighthood for my humanitarian work meant more than if it had been for my acting.

Ronnie Barker was a man whom I thought more deserving of a knighthood than me.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 made a comment saying that it was 'mad' that I'm getting a knighthood for riding a bike but I meant mad as in unbelievable.

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, like Andrew Morton or Paul Burrell.

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.

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

I don't poo-pooh anyone's knighthood or other honors.

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

I am hugely honoured and proud to be receiving a knighthood.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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