Chivalry Quotes

85 quotes by 73 authors

There is another side to chivalry. If it dispenses leniency, it may with equal justification invoke control. — Freda Adler
In lawn tennis mixed, the basic chivalry move is to pretend to serve less fiercely to the woman than to the man. This is particularly… — Stephen Potter
Thus the castle of each feudal chieftain became a school of chivalry, into which any noble youth, whose parents were from poverty unable to educate… — Horatio Alger
More than a code of manners in war and love, Chivalry was a moral system, governing the whole of noble life... — Barbara Tuchman
When his apprenticeship was finished (the candidate for Knighthood) was received into the Knightly Order by a ritual of sacramental awe... — Ariel Durant
I often think a lot of women's attraction to vampires is based on the fact that vampires come from centuries ago, from eras of chivalry… — Stephen Moyer
Like a sea-beast fished up from the depths, or a diver too suddenly hoisted, my veins threatened to burst from the fall in pressure. I… — Winston Churchill
The world's male chivalry has perished out, but women are knights-errant to the last; and, if Cervantes had been greater still, he had made his… — Elizabeth Barrett Browning
It's one thing, holding open the door for someone at a grocery store, or the library, or just about anyplace else. But the doughnut shop… — Linwood Barclay
The most part of all princes have more delight in warlike manners and feats of chivalry than in the good feats of peace. — Thomas More
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 law… — Dorothy L. Sayers
In times gone by there lived a Count of Ponthieu, who loved chivalry and the pleasures of the world beyond measure, and moreover was a… — Marie de France
So the horns of the stag are sharp to offend his adversary, but are branched for the purpose of parrying or receiving the thrusts of… — Erasmus Darwin
By Chivalries as tiny, A Blossom, or a Book, The seeds of smiles are planted- Which Blossom in the dark. — Emily Dickinson
My further advice on your relations to women is based upon that other motto of chivalry, "Serve all, love one. — Honore de Balzac
Another writer asserts that the tyranny of man over woman has its roots, after all, in his nobler feelings; his love, his chivalry, and his… — Susan B. Anthony
Modern critics, who refuse to let a plain thing alone, have now started a theory that Cervantes's work is a vast piece of "symbolism." If… — Stephen Leacock
The sword was a very elegant weapon in the days of the samurai. You had honor and chivalry much like the knights, and yet it… — Dustin Diamond
The age of chivalry is past. Bores have succeeded to dragons. — Charles Dickens
Some say that the age of chivalry is past, that the spirit of romance is dead. The age of chivalry is never past, so long… — Charles Kingsley

Who Wrote These Chivalry Quotes

73 authors contributed a total of 85 Chivalry Quotes, led by these top contributors: