Knighthood Quotes

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
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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. Michael Korda
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I am hugely honoured and proud to be receiving a knighthood. Alastair Cook
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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
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The culmination of three trophies was the pinnacle of my career and it has been rewarded with a knighthood. Alex Ferguson
Three Has-Been Trophies Knighthood Culmination Been Pinnacle Rewarded Career
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. Steven Berkoff
Too Much Whatever Too Bit Those Would Would-Be More Knighthood Much Elegant
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
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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. Peter Morgan
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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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It even has the same phraseology as the English orders of knighthood, companions and this sort of thing. George Woodcock
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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
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The preparatory education of candidates for knighthood was long and arduous. Thomas Bulfinch
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