Technically, I'm a knight. My family goes back a thousand years in the Naples area. We're a titled, noble people.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
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.
The culmination of three trophies was the pinnacle of my career and it has been rewarded with a knighthood.
The preparatory education of candidates for knighthood was long and arduous.
And much more am I sorrier for my good knights' loss than for the loss of my fair queen; for queens I might have enough, but such a fellowship of good knights shall never be together in no company.
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 generally believe in people being knighted.
There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow men. True nobility lies in being superior to your former self.
And though it is much to be a nobleman, it is more to be a gentleman.
I'm glad a genre writer has got a knighthood, but stunned that it was me.
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.