Gallantry Quotes
32 quotes by 30 authors
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Conscience has no more to do with gallantry than it has with politics.
— Richard Brinsley Sheridan
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Those officers and men who were immediately under my observation, evinced the greatest gallantry, and I have no doubt that all others conducted themselves as…
— Oliver Hazard Perry
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Gallantry of mind consists in saying flattering things in an agreeable manner.
— Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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Gratefulness is the gallantry of a heart ready to rise to the opportunity a given moment offers.
— David Steindl-Rast
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For dash and gallantry the bloodthirsty Scots, Australians and Canadians led the way, with the impetuous Irish close behind. The Australian to my mind were…
— Adrian Carton de Wiart
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Enlightenment is like witnessing the brilliant sun for the first time in the morning. It is like seeing the beautiful flowers that grow in the…
— Chogyam Trungpa
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This fight has nothing to do with soldierly gallantry or principles of the Geneva Convention. If the fight against the partisans is not waged with…
— Wilhelm Keitel
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The gallantry and aggressive fighting spirit of the Russian soldiers command the American army's admiration.
— George C. Marshall
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What men call gallantry, and gods adultery, is much more common where the climate's sultry.
— Lord Byron
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There was something terrible, but also something sad and melancholy in this long cry uttered by the Russian infantry as they staged an attack. As…
— Vasily Grossman
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I have read that the secret of gallantry is to accept the pleasures of life leisurely, and its inconveniences with a shrug; as well as…
— James Branch Cabell
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Beautiful and rich is an old friendship, Grateful to the touch as ancient ivory, Smooth as aged wine, or sheen of tapestry Where light has…
— Eunice Tietjens
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What shall I say of the gallantry with which these Marines have fought! Of the slopes of Hill 142; of the Mares Farm; of the…
— James Harbord
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The gallantry of his grief did put me into a towering passion.
— William Shakespeare
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Gallantry to women - the sure road to their favor - is nothing but the appearance of extreme devotion to all their wants and wishes,…
— William Hazlitt
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We remember those who were called upon to give all a person can give, and we remember those who were prepared to make that sacrifice…
— Ronald Reagan
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You must survive with grace. You must do so gallantly. How archaic these terms seem to us in our modern world. There is little grace…
— Chris Cooper
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The consequence of a very free commerce between the sexes, and of their living much together, will often terminate in intrigues and gallantry.
— David Hume
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Any woman may act the part of a coquette successfully who has the reputation without the scruples of modesty. If a woman passes the bounds…
— William Hazlitt
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Let's drink to the spirit of gallantry and courage that made a strange Heaven out of unbelievable Hell, and let's drink to the hope that…
— Noel Coward
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