[on his knighthood being blocked by the Labour government for the second time in 1998] It`s purely political. I have never made any secret of my association, affiliation with the Scottish National Party. I don`t like the turn it`s taken now when they drag...
Sean Connery
[on being told he was being awarded an honorary knighthood] What an honor and what a surprise for a boy born in England, raised in Cleveland and schooled in vaudeville.
Bob Hope
On receiving an honorary British knighthood: You have permission to call me anything you want - except sir, all right? Lord of lords, your demigodness, that`ll do.
Bono
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.
Andrew Bozoian
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
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
[on his knighthood being blocked by the Labour government for the second time in 1998] It`s purely political. I have never made any secret of my association, affiliation with the Scottish National Party. I don`t like the turn it`s taken now when they drag...
Sean Connery
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