Gallantry of mind consists in saying flattering things in an agreeable manner. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
He had never known such gallantry as the gallantry of Scarlett O'Hara going forth to conquer the world in her mother's velvet… — Margaret Mitchell Copy Share Image
When death captures me,' the boy vowed, 'he will feel my fist on his face.' Personally, I quite like that. Such stupid… — Markus Zusak Copy Share Image
Sadly the age of gallantry seems to be dead. You look around and all you see are small men, not big enough… — Morgana Copy Share Image
I had a theoretical reverence and homage for beauty, elegance, gallantry, fascination but had I met those qualities incarnate in masculine shape,… — Charlotte Bronte 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
Certainly the effort to remain unchanged, young, when the body gives so impressive a signal of change as the menopause, is gallant;… — Ursula K. Le Guin 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
“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
“When I asked him how this cramping might affect his sword arm, he assured me it was only the narrow grip of… — Andrew Levkoff Copy Share Image
Gallantry to women - the sure road to their favor - is nothing but the appearance of extreme devotion to all their… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
In Europe itself it is not probable that war will ever absolutely cease until science discovers some destroying force so simple in… — William Winwood Reade 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
... while our men seem thoroughly abreast of the times on almost every other subject, when they strike the woman question they… — Anna Julia Cooper Copy Share Image
Remember, that when I speak of pleasures I always mean the elegant pleasures of a rational being, and not the brutal ones… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
For dash and gallantry the bloodthirsty Scots, Australians and Canadians led the way, with the impetuous Irish close behind. The Australian to… — Adrian Carton de Wiart Copy Share Image
Beautiful and rich is an old friendship, Grateful to the touch as ancient ivory, Smooth as aged wine, or sheen of tapestry… — Eunice Tietjens Copy Share Image
[writing to Stirling in 1740] ... an unlucky accident happened to some of the French mathematicians in Peru. It seems that they… — Colin Maclaurin 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
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