Chivalrous Quotes
21 quotes by 20 authors
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It is not merely true that a creed unites men. Nay, a difference of creed unites men - so long as it is a clear…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Give us a man, young or old, high or low, on whom we know we can thoroughly depend, who will stand firm when others fail;…
— Arthur Penrhyn Stanley
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Feminism was recognized by the average man as a conflict in which it was impossible for a man, as a chivalrous gentleman, as a respecter…
— Wyndham Lewis
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I don’t like boys who are mean to their mommies. That’s a real turn off for me. And I don’t like boys who aren’t chivalrous.…
— Megan Fox
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I think the honesty not only shines through in my work, but also my personal life. And I get in trouble for being honest. I'm…
— Charlie Sheen
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Man is always something worse or something better than an animal; and a mere argument from animal perfection never touches him at all. Thus, in…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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When a chivalrous man makes an oath, he is faithful to it, and when he attains power, he spares his enemy.
— Muhammad Ali
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You cannot have a proud and chivalrous spirit if your conduct is mean and paltry; for whatever a man's actions are, such must be his…
— Demosthenes
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No festival of martial glory or warrior's renown is this; no pageant pomp of war-like conquest, no glory of fratricidal strife attend this day. It…
— Peter J. McGuire
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Many heroic exploits and chivalrous adventures are related to me which exist only in the regions of fancy. With me the world has taken great…
— Daniel Boone
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Near the end of his life, my father proved to be, at his core, a very polite, chivalrous man. He walked the halls of the…
— Jennifer L. Knox
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As for this young Ali, one cannot but like him. A noble-minded creature, as he shows himself, now and always afterwards; full of affection, of…
— Edward Gibbon
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For a Russian to be chivalrous with an American is a spiritual impossibility, a conradiction in terms.
— Kurt Vonnegut
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I believe in pride of race and lineage and self: in pride of self so deep as to scorn injustice to other selves; in pride…
— W. E. B. Du Bois
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The chivalrous man who holds a door open or signals a woman to go ahead of him when he's driving is negotiating both status and…
— Deborah Tannen
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Lord Aberdeen was quite touched when I told him I was so attached to the dear, dear Highlands and missed the fine hills so much.…
— Queen Victoria
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As a bathtub lined with white porcelain, When the hot water gives out or goes tepid, So is the slow cooling of our chivalrous passion,…
— Ezra Pound
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It has drowned the most heavenly ecstasies of religious fervour, of chivalrous enthusiasm, of Philistine sentimentalism, in the icy water of egotistical calculation. It has…
— Karl Marx
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There are those who maintain that in this world women have no right to interfere in the affairs of state, in politics, in plots and…
— Belle Boyd
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If Europe had known as much of Islam, as Muslims knew of Christendom, in those days, those mad, adventurous, occasionally chivalrous and heroic, but utterly…
— Muhammad Marmaduke Pickthall
Who Wrote These Chivalrous Quotes
20 authors contributed a total of 21 Chivalrous Quotes as follows: