Chivalry Quotes
85 Chivalry quotes by 73 unique authors
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Gentlemen, be courteous to the old maids, no matter how poor and plain and prim, for the only chivalry worth having is that which is…
— Louisa May Alcott
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He released her with obvious reluctance and shoved open his door, then came around to open her door. His chivalry brought an even broader smile.…
— Colleen Coble
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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
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Defend the weak, protect both young and old, never desert your friends. Give justice to all, be fearless in battle and always ready to defend…
— Brian Jacques
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I did a research assignment on life in the Middle Ages only last year. I found the era fascinating, all that chivalry and court romance.…
— Marianne Curley
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I have never thought much of the courage of a lion tamer. Inside the cage he is at least safe from other men. There is…
— George Bernard Shaw
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For me chivalry isn't dead; it's an involuntary reflex.
— Jim Butcher
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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
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Even if I’d been wide awake, I knew Dimitri would’ve taken my suitcase anyway. That’s how he was, a lost remnant of chivalry in the…
— Richelle Mead
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To risk life to save a smile on a face of a woman or a child is the secret of chivalry.
— Dejan Stojanovic
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A gentleman is someone who does not what he wants to do, but what he should do.
— Haruki Murakami
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I didn’t realize I was frozen in place until a classmate shouldered into me, knocking my heavy backpack from my shoulder. “’Scuse me,” he grumbled,…
— Tammara Webber
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Chivalry isn't really dead you know." "Oh?" "Nah. That guy's just an asshole.
— Tammara Webber
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In the system of chivalry, men protect women against men. This is not unlike the protection relationship which [organized crime] established with small businesses in…
— Susan Griffin
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The odious and disgusting aristocracy of wealth is built upon the ruins of all that is good in chivalry or republicanism; and luxury is the…
— Percy Bysshe Shelley
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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.
— John Fowles
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Who killed Chivalry? They need to get their sentencing Meanwhile we arguing and I can't get a sentence in
— Drake
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With the advent of chivalry, the art of boxing waned. The evolution of feudal aristocracy, with other and widely different exercises, pastimes and weapons from…
— John Boyle O'Reilly
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The idea of a stag hunt evokes chivalry - knights in jerkins and hose, ladies on sidesaddles with wimples and billowing dresses, a white stag…
— P.J. O'Rourke
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We take so many of our freedoms for granted nowadays - I can travel where I like, I can do any job I want -…
— Michelle Dockery
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Chivalry is dead.
— Sienna Miller
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We take so many of our freedoms for granted nowadays - I can travel where I like, I can have a baby when I like,…
— Dan Stevens
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In our fathers' time nothing was read but books of feigned chivalry, wherein a man by reading should be led to none other end, but…
— Roger Ascham
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But the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophisters, economists, and calculators, has succeeded; and the glory of Europe is extinguished for ever.
— Edmund Burke
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Chivalry is not dead, it just got tired of being taken for granted.
— Vladislas Nikilovic
Who Wrote These Chivalry Quotes
73 authors contributed a total of 85 Chivalry Quotes, led by these top contributors: