"Chivalry is the most delicate form of contempt." — Unknown Author

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• The motto of chivalry is also the motto of wisdom; to serve all, but love only one. — Honore de Balzac
• It's stasis that kills you off in the end, not ambition. — Bono
• But the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophisters, economists, and calculators has succeeded; and the glory of Europe… — Edmund Burke
• Cervantes smiled Spain's chivalry away; A single laugh demolished the right arm Of his country. — Lord Byron
• The institution of chivalry forms one of the most remarkable features in the history of the Middle Ages. — Horatio Alger
• Justice is better than chivalry if we cannot have both. — Alice Stone Blackwell
• Chivalry is a poor substitute for justice, if one cannot have both. Chivalry is something like the icing on the… — Nellie L. McClung
• The age of chivalry has gone; the age of humanity has come. — Charles Sumner
• Yea, death and prison we mete out To small offenders of the laws, While honor, wealth, and full respect On… — Khalil Gibran
• The word "Chivalry" is derived from the French Cheval, a horse. — Thomas Bulfinch
• I heard that chivalry was dead, but I think it's just got a bad flue. — Meg Ryan
• Whatever happened to chivalry? Does it only exist in 80's movies? I want John Cusack holding a boombox outside my… — Emma Stone

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