René of Anjou [(1409-80)] painted a picture of his mistress's corpse as he found it eaten by worms on having it [her… — Horace Walpole Copy Share Image
The gallantry and aggressive fighting spirit of the Russian soldiers command the American army's admiration. — George C. Marshall Copy Share Image
Enlightenment is like witnessing the brilliant sun for the first time in the morning. It is like seeing the beautiful flowers that… — Chogyam Trungpa Copy Share Image
“I don't like this war. I don't like the cold-blooded scheming at the beginning and the carnage at the end and the… — Dorothy Dunnett Copy Share Image
You must survive with grace. You must do so gallantly. How archaic these terms seem to us in our modern world. There… — Chris Cooper Copy Share Image
There was a land of Cavaliers and Cotton Fields called the Old South. Here in this pretty world, Gallantry took its last… — Ben Hecht Copy Share Image
What shall I say of the gallantry with which these Marines have fought! Of the slopes of Hill 142; of the Mares… — James Harbord Copy Share Image
The consequence of a very free commerce between the sexes, and of their living much together, will often terminate in intrigues and… — David Hume Copy Share Image
The gallantry of his grief did put me into a towering passion. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
A slave's soul has no worth, my brothers; it lacks strength to tread on this great earth with gallantry and freedom. I… — Nikos Kazantzakis Copy Share Image
We have no government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion. Avarice, ambition, revenge or… — John Adams Copy Share Image
In France, you have 900 years of romantic love going back to the troubadours and minstrels that wrote stories of Lancelot and… — Marilyn Yalom Copy Share Image
The writer is delegated to declare and to celebrate man's proven capacity for greatness of heart and spirit—for gallantry in defeat, for… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“Politeness is the first thing people lose once they get the power.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
Any woman may act the part of a coquette successfully who has the reputation without the scruples of modesty. If a woman… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
What men call gallantry, and gods adultery, is much more common where the climate's sultry. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It was this feminine conspiracy which made Southern society so pleasant. Women knew that a land where men were contented, uncontradicted ans… — Margaret Mitchell Copy Share Image
“The gallantry was the women's. ... The woman's chivalry in such circumstances is obviously expected.” — Bryn Hammond Copy Share Image
There was something terrible, but also something sad and melancholy in this long cry uttered by the Russian infantry as they staged… — Vasily Grossman Copy Share Image
If I cannot narrate a life of adventurous and daring exploits, fortunately I have no heavy crimes to confess: and, if I… — Frederick Marryat Copy Share Image
There is a sort of veteran women of condition, who, having lived always in the grand mode, and having possibly had some… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image