Gallant Quotes

61 Gallant quotes by 57 unique authors

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 … 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
All cities are mad: but the madness is gallant. All cities are beautiful: but the beauty is grim. — Christopher Morley
For a gallant spirit there can never be defeat. — Wallis Simpson
A man when he is making up to anybody can be cordial and gallant and full of little attentions and altogether charming. But when a… — Agatha Christie
He was so far from the gallant knights in her romantic fantasies...He was tarnished, scarred, imperfect. — Lisa Kleypas
Colin : “Perhaps now is the time to tell you that I have a weakness for agreeable women.” Sugar Beth : “Well, that sure does… — Susan Elizabeth Phillips
He was so far from the gallant knights in her romantic fantasies ... He was tarnished, scarred, imperfect. Deliberately he had destroyed any illusions she… — Lisa Kleypas
Talk English to me, Tommy. Parlez francais avec moi, Nicole. But the meanings are different-- in French you can be heroic and gallant with dignity,… — F. Scott Fitzgerald
There is nothing dictators hate so much as that unassailable, eternally elusive, eternally provoking gleam. One of the main reasons why the very gallant Russian… — Vladimir Nabokov
Gaily bedight, A gallant knight, In sunshine and in shadow, Had journeyed long, Singing a song, In search of Eldorado. But he grew old— This… — Edgar Allan Poe
One who has not only the four S's, which are required in every good lover, but even the whole alphabet; as for example... Agreeable, Bountiful,… — Miguel de Cervantes

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