Gallantry Quotes
32 quotes by 28 authors
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Frenchmen have an unlimited capacity for gallantry and indulge it on every occasion.
— Moliere
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A high station in life is earned by the gallantry with which appalling experiences are survived with grace.
— Tennessee Williams
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The writer is delegated to declare and to celebrate man's proven capacity for greatness of heart and spirit—for gallantry in defeat, for courage, compassion and…
— John Steinbeck
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We have no government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion. Avarice, ambition, revenge or gallantry would break…
— John Adams
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I had a theoretical reverence and homage for beauty, elegance, gallantry, fascination but had I met those qualities incarnate in masculine shape, I should have…
— Charlotte Bronte
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Elizabeth, having rather expected to affront him, was amazed at his gallantry; and Darcy had never been so bewitched by any woman as he was…
— Seth Grahame-Smith
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He had never known such gallantry as the gallantry of Scarlett O'Hara going forth to conquer the world in her mother's velvet curtains and the…
— Margaret Mitchell
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There was a land of Cavaliers and Cotton Fields called the Old South. Here in this pretty world, Gallantry took its last bow. Here was…
— Ben Hecht
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When death captures me,' the boy vowed, 'he will feel my fist on his face.' Personally, I quite like that. Such stupid gallantry. Yes. I…
— Markus Zusak
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Wine gave a sort of gallantry to their own failure.
— F. Scott Fitzgerald
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It was this feminine conspiracy which made Southern society so pleasant. Women knew that a land where men were contented, uncontradicted ans safe in possession…
— Margaret Mitchell
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Sadly the age of gallantry seems to be dead. You look around and all you see are small men, not big enough to fill their…
— Unknown Author
Who Wrote These Gallantry Quotes
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