Gallant Quotes

61 quotes by 57 authors

As a final crash of self-indulgent nonsense, when the incontrovertible truth of your panoramic and murderous deceit has even begun to cost your political party… — Keith Olbermann
I can think of nothing more gallant, even though again and again we fail, than attempting to get at the facts; attempting to tell things… — Peter Viereck
Major Richard Bong was an example of the tragic and terrible price we must pay to maintain principles of human rights, of greater value than… — Eddie Rickenbacker
We have counted the cost of this contest, and find nothing so dreadful as voluntary slavery.-Honor, justice, and humanity, forbid us tamely to surrender that… — Thomas Jefferson
Let vice and immorality of every kind be discouraged as much as possible in your brigade; and, as a chaplain is allowed to each regiment,… — George Washington
The current fashion in belligerent atheism usually involves flinging condemnation around with a kind of gallant extravagance, more or less in the direction of all… — David Bentley Hart
The sunshine was delightful, the foliage gently astir, more from the activity of birds than from the breeze. One gallant little bird, doubtless lovelorn, was… — Victor Hugo
The Puerto Ricans forming the ranks of the gallant 65th Infantry on the battlefields of Korea â€¦ are writing a brilliant record of achievement in… — Douglas MacArthur
The day dawns; the morning star is bright upon the horizon! The iron gate of our prison stands half open. One gallant rush from the… — Frederick Douglass
Perfumed and gallant words make our ears belch. — Pietro Aretino
There is no food more satiating than milk and honey; and just as such foods produce disgust for the palate, so perfumed and gallant words… — Pietro Aretino
Every age has a keyhole to which its eye is pasted. Spicy court-memoirs, the lives of gallant ladies, recollections of an ex-nun, a monk's confession,… — Mary McCarthy
I am not sure if women are attracted to genius. Can you imagine the wise wizard winning the woman over the gallant swordsman? It seems… — Criss Jami
As that gallant can best affect a pretended passion for one woman who has no true love for another, so he that has no real… — Charles Caleb Colton
Ever note, Lucilius, When love begins to sicken and decay It useth an enforced ceremony. There are no tricks in plain and simple faith; But… — William Shakespeare
She comes majestic with her swelling sails, The gallant Ship: along her watery way, Homeward she drives before the favouring gales; Now flirting at their… — Robert Southey
Fair laughs the morn, and soft the zephyr blows, While proudly rising o'er the azure realm In gallant trim the gilded vessel goes, Youth on… — Thomas Gray
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
Surrender means that the history of this heroic struggle will be written by the enemy; that our youth will be trained by Northern school teachers;… — Patrick Cleburne
Oh, the gallant fisher's life!It is the best of any;'T is full of pleasure, void of strife,And 't is beloved by many. — Izaak Walton

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