Top 37 Quotes About Knighthood
#1. I turned down a knighthood. It would be like having to wear a suit every day of your life.
Alan Bennett
#2. 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
#3. It even has the same phraseology as the English orders of knighthood, companions and this sort of thing.
George Woodcock
#4. 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
#5. Bronn himself, who'd only smiled that insolent dark smile of his and afterward said, "They'll kill for that knighthood, but don't ever think they'll die for it."
Tyrion had no such delusion.
George R R Martin
#6. None of us is ever ready," he said. "For knighthood?" "For death.
George R R Martin
#7. It was all for the best. I am an elf, and he is a human. Thomas is a Knight, and I am a Princess. His Knighthood meant nothing in this world. Though it did make me wonder what it meant in his. In his world, did Knights and Princesses fall in love? I doubted it.
Rae Z. Ryans
#8. In emerald tufts, flowers purple, blue and white;
Like sapphire, pearl, and rich embroidery,
Buckled below fair knighthood's bending knee;
Fairies use flower for their charactery.
William Shakespeare
#9. 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
#10. 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
#11. I'm glad a genre writer has got a knighthood, but stunned that it was me.
Terry Pratchett
#12. I feel like Ive been engaged to the British Empire since 1980 and tonight you have given me the ring knighthood.
Steven Spielberg
#13. Bu-shi-do means literally Military-Knight-Ways - the ways which fighting nobles should observe in their daily life as well as in their vocation; in a word, the "Precepts of Knighthood," the noblesse oblige of the warrior class.
Inazo Nitobe
#14. The point of a knighthood for British actors is to enable them to play butlers.
Alec Guinness
#15. The culmination of three trophies was the pinnacle of my career and it has been rewarded with a knighthood.
Alex Ferguson
#16. None of us is ever ready,' he (Ned) said. 'For knighthood?' 'For death.
George R R Martin
#17. In these latter days, knighthood was an honor few Englishmen escaped.
Arthur C. Clarke
#19. Please." Ash gripped my hand, "Don't do this."
"I release you," I whispered. "From your vow of knighthood, and the promises you made. Your service to me is done, Ash. You're free.
Julie Kagawa
#20. Dieter, you're a brick!" I shouted. I couldn't help it. Dieter looked as pleased as punch. To him, being called a brick by an English native was probably more precious than a knighthood.
Alan Bradley
#21. 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
#22. When his apprenticeship was finished (the candidate for Knighthood) was received into the Knightly Order by a ritual of sacramental awe ...
Ariel Durant
#23. Pain was as much a part of knighthood as were swords and shields.
George R R Martin
#24. They'll kill for that knighthood, but don't ever think they'll die for it.
George R R Martin
#25. 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
#26. 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
#27. 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
#28. Remember, there were dragons long before men came into the world. Why, it was none other than The Great Dragons of Yore who invented the idea of knighthood. Yes, yes, that's right! Dragons had knights, Kings, princesses and queens long before men crawled out of the muck.
Sully Tarnish
#29. Knighthood lies above eternity; it doesn't live off fame, but rather deeds.
Dejan Stojanovic
#30. The preparatory education of candidates for knighthood was long and arduous.
Thomas Bulfinch
#31. 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
#34. More than a code of manners in war and love, Chivalry was a moral system, governing the whole of noble life ...
Barbara Tuchman
#35. Why?" he asked Pate. "What am I to them?"
"A knight who remembered his vows," the smith said.
George R R Martin
#36. When people say a knight's job is all glory, I laugh and laugh and laugh. Often I can stop laughing before they edge away and talk about soothing drinks.
Tamora Pierce
#37. What if custom is wrong? demanded the part of her that believed in the code of chivalry. A knight must set things right.
Tamora Pierce
