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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 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.

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.

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

A true knight is fuller of bravery in the midst, than in the beginning of danger.

The judge is not the knight-errant, roaming at will in pursuit of his own ideal of beauty or of goodness.

I'm glad a genre writer has got a knighthood, but stunned that it was me.

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.

It even has the same phraseology as the English orders of knighthood, companions and this sort of thing.