Chivalry Quote by Albert Guerard Download Open image “Chivalry is the most delicate form of contempt.” — Albert Guerard ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.6 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Chivalry
Chivalry is one of the great civilizing forces, taming men and introducing social graces and nuance to what would otherwise be a brutish social… — Heather Mac Donald Copy Share Image
Contempt is the weapon of the weak and a defense against one's own despised and unwanted feelings. — Alice Miller Copy Share Image
Contempt is a kind of gangrene which, if it seizes one part of a character, corrupts all the rest by degrees. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Genuine contempt, on the other hand, is the unsullied conviction of the worthlessness of another. — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
There is another side to chivalry. If it dispenses leniency, it may with equal justification invoke control. — Freda Adler Copy Share Image
None but the contemptible are apprehensive of contempt. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Contempt is not a thing to be despised. It may be borne with a calm and equal mind, but no man, by lifting his… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
Contempt; the feeling of a prudent man for an enemy who is too formidable safely to be opposed. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
The most unequivocal sign of contempt for man is to regard everybody merely as a means to one's own ends, or of no account… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Here is the world of imagination, hopes, and dreams. In this timeless land of enchantment, the age of chivalry, magic and make-believe are reborn… — Walt Disney Copy Share Image
To awaken chivalry we must return to femininity. We must stop doing the masculine things and become the gentle, tender, dependent women we were… — Helen Andelin Copy Share Image
Chivalry is a poor substitute for justice, if one cannot have both. Chivalry is something like the icing on the cake, sweet but not… — Nellie L. McClung Copy Share Image
What if custom is wrong? demanded the part of her that believed in the code of chivalry. A knight must set things right. — Tamora Pierce Copy Share Image
My further advice on your relations to women is based upon that other motto of chivalry, "Serve all, love one. — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
I admit it is better fun to punt than be punted, and that a desire to have all the fun is nine-tenths of the… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
I named my album Year of the Gentleman. Just looking at how the essence of what it is to be a gentleman is very… — Ne-Yo Copy Share Image
Knighterrantry is a most chuckleheaded trade, and it is tedious hard work, too, but I begin to see that there is money in it,… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I don't know where my romanticism comes from. My mom and dad would read to me a lot. 'Treasure Island,' 'Robinson Crusoe,' tales of… — Daniel Radcliffe Copy Share Image
“... for a man may cover his blemish, but unbind it he cannot, for where once 'tis applied, thence part will it never.” — J.R.R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
