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Chivalry Quotes by John Fowles
- Though I like the various forms of football in the world, I don't think they begin to compare with these two great Anglo-Saxon ball games…
- Baseball and cricket are beautiful and highly stylized medieval war substitutes, chess made flesh, a mixture of proud chivalry and base-in both senses-greed.
More Chivalry Quotes
- The motto of chivalry is also the motto of wisdom; to serve all, but love only one. — Honore de Balzac
- It's stasis that kills you off in the end, not ambition. — Unknown Author
- But the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophisters, economists, and calculators has succeeded; and the glory of Europe is extinguished… — Edmund Burke
- Cervantes smiled Spain's chivalry away; A single laugh demolished the right arm Of his country. — Lord Byron
- The institution of chivalry forms one of the most remarkable features in the history of the Middle Ages. — Horatio Alger
- Justice is better than chivalry if we cannot have both. — Alice Stone Blackwell
- Chivalry is a poor substitute for justice, if one cannot have both. Chivalry is something like the icing on the cake, sweet… — Nellie L. McClung
- The age of chivalry has gone; the age of humanity has come. — Charles Sumner