Knighthood Quotes

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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