The gallantry of the mind consists in agreeable flattery. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Conscience has no more to do with gallantry than it has with politics. — Richard Brinsley Sheridan Copy Share Image
Gratefulness is the gallantry of a heart ready to rise to the opportunity a given moment offers. — David Steindl-Rast Copy Share Image
What men call gallantry, and gods adultery, is much more common where the climate's sultry. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The gallantry was the women's. ... The woman's chivalry in such circumstances is obviously expected.” — Bryn Hammond Copy Share Image
The gallantry of his grief did put me into a towering passion. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
[A] high minded gallantry in defense of the foundations of Christian culture. — Pope Pius XII Copy Share Image
Frenchmen have an unlimited capacity for gallantry and indulge it on every occasion. — Moliere Copy Share Image
A true friend is distinguished in the crisis of hazard and necessity; when the gallantry of his aid may show the worth… — Quintus Ennius 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
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
Those officers and men who were immediately under my observation, evinced the greatest gallantry, and I have no doubt that all others… — Oliver Hazard Perry 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
A high station in life is earned by the gallantry with which appalling experiences are survived with grace. — Tennessee Williams Copy Share Image
“Plants are more courageous than almost all human beings: an orange tree would rather die than produce lemons, whereas instead of dying… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana 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
Almost everything about a human creature is ridiculous, except its ability to suffer bravely and die gallantly for whatever it loves and… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
We remember those who were called upon to give all a person can give, and we remember those who were prepared to… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
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
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
in love, gallantry is necessary. Even when the first wild desire is gone, especially then, there is an inherent need for good… — Ilka Chase Copy Share Image
We have no government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion. Our constitution was made… — John Quincy Adams 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
“Gallantry,” he often told his men, “is an act of great courage under fire, of bravery beyond the call of duty. But… — Charles Todd Copy Share Image
This fight has nothing to do with soldierly gallantry or principles of the Geneva Convention. If the fight against the partisans is… — Wilhelm Keitel 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
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
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
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
Elizabeth, having rather expected to affront him, was amazed at his gallantry; and Darcy had never been so bewitched by any woman… — Seth Grahame-Smith 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
I have read that the secret of gallantry is to accept the pleasures of life leisurely, and its inconveniences with a shrug;… — James Branch Cabell Copy Share Image
“Politeness is the first thing people lose once they get the power.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
“Personally, I quite like that. Such stupid gallantry. Yes. I like that a lot.” — Markus Zusak Copy Share Image