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The word knight, which originally meant boy or servant, was particularly applied to a young man after he was admitted to the privilege of bearing arms.

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.

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.

And though it is much to be a nobleman, it is more to be a gentleman.

The Divinity could be invoked as well in the English language as in the French.

I don't generally believe in people being knighted.

Technically, I'm a knight. My family goes back a thousand years in the Naples area. We're a titled, noble people.

You don't expect to get the letter saying, Her Majesty would like to appoint you Knight Commander of the British Empire! It was just a completely overwhelming and exciting day.

Male supremacy is fused into the language, so that every sentence both heralds and affirms it.

Mind you, the Elizabethans had so many words for the female genitals that it is quite hard to speak a sentence of modern English without inadvertently mentioning at least three of them.