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Tag Name "Knighthood" (14)

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I turned down a knighthood. It would be like having to wear a suit every day of your life.
Alan Bennett
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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
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For all his horses, knighthoods and championships, he hasn't got two of what I've got. And I don't mean balls!
Brian Clough
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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
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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 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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I'm glad a genre writer has got a knighthood, but stunned that it was me.
Terry Pratchett
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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
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When his apprenticeship was finished (the candidate for Knighthood) was received into the Knightly Order by a ritual of sacramental awe.
Ariel Durant
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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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None of us is ever ready,' he (Ned) said. 'For knighthood?' 'For death.
George R. R. Martin
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I`ve been all over the world - honorary knighthood .
Hillary Clinton
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I feel like Ive been engaged to the British Empire since 1980 and tonight you have given me the ring knighthood.
Steven Spielberg
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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