It is a kingly act to assist the fallen. — Mother Teresa
The age of chivalry is past. Bores have succeeded to dragons. — Benjamin Disraeli
In other countries they speak of nobility and courtesy, in London they practise it. — Frances Xavier Cabrini
Short Knighthood Quotes
The preparatory education of candidates for knighthood was long and arduous. — Thomas Bulfinch
They'll kill for that knighthood, but don't ever think they'll die for it. — George R. R. Martin
I turned down a knighthood. It would be like having to wear a suit every day of your life. — Alan Bennett
None of us is ever ready,' he (Ned) said. 'For knighthood?' 'For death. — George R. R. Martin
I'm glad a genre writer has got a knighthood, but stunned that it was me. — Terry Pratchett
I`ve been all over the world - honorary knighthood . — Hillary Clinton
I never accepted a knighthood because to me, is honour enough? — George Bernard Shaw
Knight Quotes
I am in love with no other than myself, and my very separation is my union... I am my beloved and my lover; I am my knight and my maiden. — Ibn Arabi
I believe that whatever doesn't kill you, simply makes you... stranger. — Heath Ledger
Fischer is Fischer, but a knight is a knight! — Mikhail Tal
"My aim is to institute perpetual adoration," spoke St. Maximilian Maria Kolbe, Franciscan priest and founder of the Knights of the Immaculata. For he said that this is "the most important activity," and "if half of the Brothers would work, and the other half pray, this would not require too much." — Maximilian Kolbe
Nobody panics when things go “according to plan”. Even if the plan is horrifying! — Heath Ledger
Play by the rules, but be ferocious. — Phil Knight
Here we have bishops, priests, and deacons, a Censorship Board, vigilant librarians, confraternities and sodalities, Duce Maria, Legions of Mary, Knights of this Christian order and Knights of that one, all surrounding the sinner's free will in an embattled circle. — Sean O'Casey
Once upon a time there was a dwarf knight who only had fifty words to live in and they were so fleeting that he only had time to put on a suit of armor and ride swiftly on a black horse into a very well-lit woods where he vanished forever. — Richard Brautigan
In the songs all knights are gallant, all maids are beautiful, and the sun is always shining. — George R. R. Martin
Of course, history is only a muddle of facts and a fuddle of professors, and anyone who thinks it is one clear voice saying "Arise, sir Knight" deserves a life sentence in Camelot. — Wilfrid Sheed
More than a code of manners in war and love, Chivalry was a moral system, governing the whole of noble life. — Barbara Tuchman
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
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
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
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
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
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
The culmination of three trophies was the pinnacle of my career and it has been rewarded with a knighthood. — Alex Ferguson
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. — Edmund Spenser
When his apprenticeship was finished (the candidate for Knighthood) was received into the Knightly Order by a ritual of sacramental awe. — Ariel Durant
I feel like Ive been engaged to the British Empire since 1980 and tonight you have given me the ring knighthood. — Steven Spielberg
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
It even has the same phraseology as the English orders of knighthood, companions and this sort of thing. — George Woodcock
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