Top Chivalry Quotes

She was so delicate that, while we sat beneath the linden branches, a leaf would fall and drift down and touch her skin, and it would leave a bruise. So as we sat in the afternoon hour, beneath that f...

The age of chivalry is past. Bores have succeeded to dragons.

Chivalry Definition

(n.) A body or order of cavaliers or knights serving on horseback; illustrious warriors, collectively; cavalry.

(n.) The dignity or system of knighthood; the spirit, usages, or manners of knighthood; the practice of knight-errantry.

(n.) The qualifications or character of knights, as valor, dexterity in arms, courtesy, etc.

(n.) A tenure of lands by knight's service; that is, by the condition of a knight's performing service on horseback, or of performing some noble or military service to his lord.

(n.) Exploit.

It was a symposium of horror and heroism, the like of which has not been known in the civilized world since man established his dominion over the sea.

In self-defense and in defense of the innocent, cowardice is the only sin.

Many of those who elected to remain might have escaped. 'Chivalry' is a mild appellation for their conduct. Some of the vaunted knights of old were desperate cowards by comparison. A fight in the open...

Though he was her enemy, he treated her with unfailing courtesy.

Every man is sensitive. Some cover it up with brutality, others with cowardice and vanity, but a small few wear it bravely like armor

What Melanie did was no more than all Southern girls were taught to do: to make those about them feel at ease and pleased with themselves. It was this happy feminine conspiracy which made Southern soc...

Avventurose età e benedette quelle che non seppero la spaventevole furia di queste indemoniate macchine dell'artiglieria, l'inventore delle quali io ritengo che sia nell'inferno a ricevere il guiderdo...

When boys unite hearts they become gentlemen.

Vossignoria pertanto creda a me e, come le ho detto già prima, legga di questi libri e vedrà come le bandiscono la malinconia che caso mai avesse e le fanno migliore il carattere se mai l'abbia guasto...

Taking good care of your husband or wife is the best way to thank their parent or parents for having taken good care of them.

A proper Irishman always does what a lady asks him. Sure an' it's been the ruin av us. We're at the mercy av the petticoats.

Gentleman: An imaginary creature found in Jane Austen novels.

What a loss it would be if feminism killed chivalry.

As a Texan, I say ma'm and sir to my age contemporaries and open doors for anyone that I can. This goes for men, too, though it is appreciated when they beat me to it and disappointing when they don't...

The most part of all princes have more delight in warlike manners and feats of chivalry than in the good feats of peace.

The plain of Bedegraine was a forest of pavilions. They looked like old-fashioned bathing tents, and were every colour of the rainbow. ... There were heraldic devices worked or stamped on the sides .....

I remembered a definition of chivalry I'd heard once: a man protecting a woman against every man but himself.

For any man may be a king in that life in which he is placed if so be he may draw forth the sword of success from out of the iron of circumstance. Where fore when your time of assay cometh, I do hope...