Chivalry Quotes - Page 2

• Baseball and cricket are beautiful and highly stylized medieval war substitutes, chess made flesh, a mixture of proud chivalry and base-in both senses-greed.

  John Fowles

  Beautiful, Baseball, War

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• The Southern whites are in many respects a great people. Looked at from a certain point of view, they are picturesque. If one will put oneself in a romantic frame of mind, one can admire their notions of chivalry and bravery and justice.

  James Weldon Johnson

  Romantic, Views, People

  James Weldon Johnson, Sondra K. Wilson (1995). “The Selected Writings of James Weldon Johnson: Social, political, and literary essays”, p.352, Oxford University Press on Demand

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• Cervantes smiled Spain's chivalry away; A single laugh demolish'd the right arm Of his own country.

  Lord Byron

  Country, Laughing, Spain

  "Don Juan".

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• The old interests of aristocracy - the romance of action, the exalted passions of chivalry and war - faded into the background, and their place was taken by the refined and intimate pursuits of peace and civilization.

  Lytton Strachey

  War, Taken, Passion

  Lytton Strachey (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Lytton Strachey (Illustrated)”, p.48, Delphi Classics

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• In our fathers' time nothing was read but books of feigned chivalry,
  wherein a man by reading should be led to none other end, but only
  to manslaughter and bawdry.

  Roger Ascham

  Father, Book, Reading

  Roger Ascham (1815). “The English Works. A New Ed”, p.55

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• I heard that chivalry was dead, but I think it's just got a bad flue.

  Meg Ryan

  Thinking, Heard

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• Chivalry is not dead and you should be a gentleman. But if you are going to buy a girl a drink, buy it. Don't just offer it. Follow through.

  Mila Kunis

  Girl, Gentleman, Drink

  "Jim Beam & Mila Kunis". Interview with Robert Haynes-Peterson, www.askmen.com. February 25, 2014.

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• I often think a lot of women's attraction to vampires is based on the fact that vampires come from centuries ago, from eras of chivalry and courtly virtues.

  Stephen Moyer

  Thinking, Vampire, Eras

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• I still like to see that a man opens the door. I like those touches of chivalry that are fast disappearing. If I sound old-fashioned, it's because I'm as old as I am! But it's just polite.

  Betty White

  Men, Doors, Sound

  "Betty White's Love Lessons". Sydney Morning Herald Interview, www.smh.com.au. May 17, 2011.

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• Cervantes smiled Spain's chivalry away.

  Lord Byron

  Spain, Ridicule

  'Don Juan' (1819-24) canto 13, st. 11

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• Chivalry is not only dead, it’s decomposed.

  Rudy Vallee

  Palm Beach

  "Fictional character: J.D. Hackensacker III". "The Palm Beach Story", www.imdb.com. 1942.

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• The world's male chivalry has perished out, but women are knights-errant to the last; and, if Cervantes had been greater still, he had made his Don a Donna.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Courage, Knights, Bravery

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning (Illustrated)”, p.1099, Delphi Classics

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• I thought ten thousand swords must have leaped from their scabbards to avenge even a look that threatened her with insult. But the age of chivalry is gone.

  Edmund Burke

  Age, Looks, Gone

  Edmund Burke (1826). “The Works of Edmund Burke”, p.149

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• I did a research assignment on life in the Middle Ages only last year. I found the era fascinating, all that chivalry and court romance. But I never pictured anything as poor as this village. This is the pits. There's no romance here, definitely no chivary. And it stinks--of sweat and smoke and sewage.

  Marianne Curley

  Years, Sweat, Romance

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• The odious and disgusting aristocracy of wealth is built upon the ruins of all that is good in chivalry or republicanism; and luxury is the forerunner of a barbarism scarcely capable of cure.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Luxury, Aristocracy, Ruins

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Percy Bysshe Shelley, John Keats (1831). “The poetical works of Coleridge, Shelley, and Keats”, p.387

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• If you're walking with your lady on the sidewalk, I still like to see a man walking street-side, to protect the lady from traffic. I grew up with that, and I hate to see something like that get lost. I still like to see that a man opens the door. I like those touches of chivalry that are fast disappearing.

  Betty White

  Hate, Men, Doors

  "Follow a lady's word: Betty White dispenses some relationship advice for the average male". Q&A, www.heraldextra.com. May 13, 2011.

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• Modern critics, who refuse to let a plain thing alone, have now started a theory that Cervantes's work is a vast piece of "symbolism." If so, Cervantes didn't know it himself and nobody thought of it for three hundred years. He meant it as a satire upon the silly romances of chivalry.

  Stephen Leacock

  Silly, Years, Symbolism

  Stephen Leacock, Gerald Lynch (2002). “Leacock on Life”, p.49, University of Toronto Press

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• I don't allow chivalry to die, on my part, but as far as guys taking care of their woman, and, making sure that it's not all about self, it's about giving, and how a lot of guys don't groom themselves, how a lot of guys don't take care of themselves.

  Ginuwine

  Self, Giving, Guy

  Source: www.parlemag.com

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• The sword was a very elegant weapon in the days of the samurai. You had honor and chivalry much like the knights, and yet it was a gruesome and horrific weapon.

  Dustin Diamond

  Knights, Honor, Samurai

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• We have prayed, we have coaxed, we have begged, for the vote, with the hope that men, out of chivalry, would bestow equal rights upon women and take them into partnership in the affairs of the state. We hoped that their common sense would triumph over prejudices and stupidity. We thought their boasted sense of justice would overcome the errors that so often fetter the human spirit; but we have always gone away empty handed. We shall beg no more.

  Helen Keller

  Men, Errors, Rights

  Helen Keller (2000). “To Love this Life: Quotations”, p.55, American Foundation for the Blind

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• Chivalry isn't really dead you know." "Oh?" "Nah. That guy's just an asshole.

  Tammara Webber

  Guy, That Guy, Knows

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• Who killed Chivalry? They need to get their sentencing Meanwhile we arguing and I can't get a sentence in

  Drake

  Relationship, Breakup, Needs

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• Chivalry is dead. Women killed it.

  Dave Chappelle

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• I love having the door opened for me. Isn't that just polite? But the key is, would you then mind if I opened the door for you? The key is, chivalry should be consensual. Both parties should be feeling good about that.

  Emma Watson

  Should

  "We were there: Emma Watson's IWD talk on gender equality", www.elle.com. September 3, 2015.

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• My further advice on your relations to women is based upon that other motto of chivalry, "Serve all, love one."

  Honore de Balzac

  Women, Advice, Motto

  "The Lily of the Valley". Book by Honoré de Balzac, 1835.

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