Chivalry Quotes

85 Chivalry quotes by 73 unique authors

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
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 chivalry… — Daniel Radcliffe
Every man I meet wants to protect me. I can't figure out what from. — Mae West
If you're walking with your lady on the sidewalk, I still like to see a man walking street-side, to protect the lady from traffic. I… — Betty White
There's no chivalry in culture any more. Sometimes you meet someone who everyone says is polite and you're like, 'Wow,' but then it's like, 'Hang… — will.i.am
Chivalry!---why, maiden, she is the nurse of pure and high affection---the stay of the oppressed, the redresser of grievances, the curb of the power of… — Walter Scott
In self-defense and in defense of the innocent, cowardice is the only sin. — Dean Koontz
All of that is true,’ responded Don Quixote, ‘but we cannot all be friars, and God brings His children to heaven by many paths: chivalry… — Miguel de Cervantes
But fear no more! I would not take this thing, if it lay by the highway. Not were Minas Tirith falling in ruin and I… — J.R.R. Tolkien
As if Spade's chivalry would allow him to do anything to a woman. The harshest punishment she could imagine him dishing out to Cat would… — Jeaniene Frost
I truly love our Code of Chivalry. We are taught that noblemen must take everything and say nothing. Noblemen must stand alone. Well, we're men,… — Tamora Pierce

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