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

    Knighthood   Said   Ready  
  • 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.

    Flower   Blow   Men  
    Edmund Spenser (1965). “Books I and II of the Faerie queene: the mutability cantos, and selections from the minor poetry”
  • 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.

    Pain   Blood   Feet  
    Thomas Malory (2009). “Le MORTE DARTHUR: the Book of King Arthur and of His Noble Knights of the Round Table [volume 1 Of 4]”, p.93, Lulu.com
  • I never accepted a knighthood because to me, is honour enough?

  • 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 (2015). “Bulfinch's Mythology”, p.378, Booklassic
  • I turned down a knighthood. It would be like having to wear a suit every day of your life.

  • For all his horses, knighthoods and championships, he hasn't got two of what I've got. And I don't mean balls!

    Soccer   Horse   Mean  
  • Anarchy is the only slight glimmer of hope.

  • 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.

  • 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 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.

  • 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.

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

    "The Sun Watches the Sun". Book by Dejan Stojanovic, "Eternity and Eternity" (p. 32), 1999.
  • When his apprenticeship was finished (the candidate for Knighthood) was received into the Knightly Order by a ritual of sacramental awe.

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

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

    Knighthood   Genre   Glad  
  • The preparatory education of candidates for knighthood was long and arduous.

    Thomas Bulfinch “Bulfinch's Mythology: Legends of Charlemagne or Romance of the Middle Ages, The Age of Chivalry or Legends of King Arthur and The Age of Fable or Stories of Gods and Heroes (Complete)”, Library of Alexandria
  • 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.

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

    George R. R. Martin (2012). “George R. R. Martin's A Game of Thrones 5-Book Boxed Set (Song of Ice and Fire Series): A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, A Feast for Crows, and and A Dance with Dragons”, p.1230, Bantam
  • I`ve been all over the world - honorary knighthood .

    Source: www.msnbc.com
  • I feel like Ive been engaged to the British Empire since 1980 and tonight you have given me the ring knighthood.

  • More than a code of manners in war and love, Chivalry was a moral system, governing the whole of noble life.

    Barbara W. Tuchman (2011). “A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century”, p.62, Random House
  • 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.

    Order   People   Insane  
    Kathy Acker, Dennis Cooper (2002). “Essential Acker: The Selected Writings of Kathy Acker”, p.206, Grove Press
  • 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.

  • 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.

    Nice   Titles   Use  
    "Anthony Hopkins: 'I've never been really close to anyone'" by John Crace, www.theguardian.com. January 23, 2012.
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