Chivalry Quotes - Page 4

• Other Courtesies have been -
  Other Courtesy may be -
  We commend ourselves to thee
  Paragon of Chivalry.

  Emily Dickinson

  May, Courtesy, Thee

  Emily Dickinson, Ralph William Franklin (1999). “The Poems of Emily Dickinson”, p.505, Harvard University Press

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• Another writer asserts that the tyranny of man over woman has its roots, after all, in his nobler feelings; his love, his chivalry, and his desire to protect woman in the barbarous periods of pillage, lust, and war. But wherever the roots may be traced, the results at this hour are equally disastrous to woman. Her best interests and happiness do not seem to have been consulted in the arrangements made for her protection. She has been bought and sold, caressed and crucified at the will and pleasure of her master.

  Susan B. Anthony

  Women, War, Roots

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, Matilda Gage, Harriot Stanton Blatch, Ida H. Harper (2017). “THE HISTORY OF WOMEN’S SUFFRAGE - Complete 6 Volumes (Illustrated): Everything You Need to Know about the Biggest Victory of Women’s Rights and Equality in the United States – Written By the Greatest Social Activists, Abolitionists & Suffragists”, p.7, e-artnow

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• Go little book, thy self present, As child whose parent is unkent: To him that is the president Of noblesse and of chivalry, And if that Envy bark at thee, As sure it will, for succour flee.

  Edmund Spenser

  Children, Book, Self

  1579 The Shepherd's Calendar, 'To His Book'.

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• To him who has thought, or done, or suffered much, the level days of his childhood seem at an immeasureable distance, far off as the age of chivalry, or as the line of Sesostris.

  Thomas Noon Talfourd

  Distance, Past, Childhood

  Thomas Babington Macaulay, Thomas Noon Talfourd, James Stephen (1854). “Essays, Critical and Miscellaneous: Critical and miscellaneous writings”, p.102

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• for ... austere and gracious allegory, as for so much of its mysticism and its chivalry, its ardours and its endurances, the world is in debt to Spain.

  Helen Waddell

  Europe, Debt, World

  Helen Waddell (2000). “The Wandering Scholars of the Middle Ages”, p.24, Courier Corporation

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• All peace-loving women shut up when they sense they have stepped onto Guy Turf. Guy Turf is a murky realm of ego and pride and chivalry and testosterone and heroism.

  Jeanne Marie Laskas

  Pride, Guy, Ego

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• Muhammad sets the model for being a good statesman. He also sets the model for being a good warrior, for chivalry, of nobility, of all the things which the Quran and Hadith [The recorded collections of the sayings and traditions of the Prophet] says of treating your enemy with dignity and kindness.

  Seyyed Hossein Nasr

  Kindness, Warrior, Enemy

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• You know, ever since I was a kid I've always been fascinated by the Arthurian Legend and, you know, the notion of nobility in battle and the - the notion of chivalry. And, you know, that's a - whether to not that's a dying theme in today's world. And then the offer of the White Knight came along and the writing was just beautiful and it was something that I just leapt at. I mean, it was great fun to do.

  Matt Frewer

  Beautiful, Fun, Mean

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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• The fame of a battlefield grows with its years; Napoleon storming the Bridge of Lodi, and Wellington surveying the towers of Salamanca, affect us with fainter emotions than Brutus reading in his tent at Philippi, or Richard bearing down with the English chivalry upon the white armies of Saladin.

  Robert Aris Willmott

  Reading, Army, Years

  Robert Aris WILLMOTT (1851). “Pleasures,objects and advantages of literature”, p.12

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• I didn’t realize I was frozen in place until a classmate shouldered into me, knocking my heavy backpack from my shoulder. “’Scuse me,” he grumbled, his tone more Get out of the way than Sorry I ran into you. As I bent to retrieve my backpack, praying Kennedy and his fangirl hadn’t seen me, a hand grasped the strap and swung the pack up from the floor. I straightened and looked into clear gray-blue eyes. “Chivalry isn’t really dead, you know.

  Tammara Webber

  Sorry, Eye, Blue

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• I truly love our Code of Chivalry. We are taught that noblemen must take everything and say nothing. Noblemen must stand alone. Well, we're men, and men aren't born to stand alone.

  Tamora Pierce

  Men, Taught, Stand Alone

  "Alanna: The First Adventure (Song of the Lioness, Book 1)". Book by Tamora Pierce, September 1983.

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• He released her with obvious reluctance and shoved open his door, then came around to open her door. His chivalry brought an even broader smile. "Bet this doesn't last long", she teased. He took her hand. "You keep waiting for me to open it, and I will keep coming around.

  Colleen Coble

  Doors, Hands, Long

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• I have never thought much of the courage of a lion tamer. Inside the cage he is at least safe from other men. There is not much harm in a lion. He has no ideals, no religion, no politics, no chivalry, no gentility; in short, no reason for destroying anything that he does not want to eat

  George Bernard Shaw

  Men, Doe, Lions

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• But fear no more! I would not take this thing, if it lay by the highway. Not were Minas Tirith falling in ruin and I alone could save her, so, using the weapon of the Dark Lord for her good and my glory. No, I do not wish for such triumphs, Frodo son of Drogo.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Fall, Son, Dark

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Two Towers: Being the Second Part of The Lord of the Rings”, p.656, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• There was a sound of revelry by night, And Belgium's capital had gathered then Her beauty and her chivalry, and bright The lamps shone o'er fair women and brave men. A thousand hearts beat happily; and when Music arose with its voluptuous swell, Soft eyes looked love to eyes which spake again, And all went merry as a marriage bell. But hush! hark! a deep sound strikes like a rising knell!

  Lord Byron

  Eye, Heart, Men

  Lord Byron (2013). “Byron: Selected Poetry and Prose”, p.347, Routledge

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• All of that is true,’ responded Don Quixote, ‘but we cannot all be friars, and God brings His children to heaven by many paths: chivalry is a religion, and there are sainted knights in Glory.’ Yes,’ responded Sancho, ‘but I’ve heard that there are more friars in heaven than knights errant.’ That is true,’ responded Don Quixote, ‘because the number of religious is greater than the number of knights.’ There are many who are errant,’ said Sancho. Many,’ responded Don Quixote, ‘but few who deserve to be called knights.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Religious, Children, Knights

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• Every man I meet wants to protect me. I can't figure out what from.

  Mae West

  Relationship, Women, Independent

  Mae West (1967). “The wit and wisdom of Mae West”

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• I don't know where my romanticism comes from. My mom and dad would read to me a lot. 'Treasure Island,' 'Robinson Crusoe,' tales of chivalry and knights, things like that. Those are the stories I loved growing up.

  Daniel Radcliffe

  Mom, Growing Up, Dad

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• It's stasis that kills you off in the end, not ambition.

  Bono

  Ambition, Growth, Ends

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• As if Spade's chivalry would allow him to do anything to a woman. The harshest punishment she could imagine him dishing out to Cat would be refusing to open a door for her.

  Jeaniene Frost

  Cat, Doors, Punishment

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• In the system of chivalry, men protect women against men. This is not unlike the protection relationship which [organized crime] established with small businesses in the early part of this century. Indeed, chivalry is an age-old protection racket which depends for its existence on rape.

  Susan Griffin

  Men, Age, Protection

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• Muslims are peace-loving people generally. Among the young, yes, there are some militant attitudes. But a lot of it arises out of chivalry.

  Hamza Yusuf

  Attitude, People, Young

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Chilvalry's essential function, Maurice Keen has written, is always to hold up an idealised image of armed conflict in defiance of the harsh realities of actual warfare. By definition, chivalry also reaffirms the paramount importance of custom, hierarchy and inherited rank.

  Linda Colley

  Reality, Essentials, Warfare

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• We live in a world where it's so accessible to date now, which is great. I don't judge that. We have so many ways of meeting people. I like to meet someone and have that chivalry, to take them out on a date and actually be a gentleman. I think that's becoming rarer and rarer.

  Alex Pettyfer

  Thinking, People, Judging

  Source: collider.com

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• Vain-glorious man, when fluttering wind does blow
  In his light wing's, is lifted up to sky;
  The scorn of-knighthood and true chivalry.
  To think, without desert of gentle deed
  And noble worth, to be advanced high,
  Such praise is shame, but honour, virtue's meed,
  Doth bear the fairest flower in honourable seed.

  Edmund Spenser

  Flower, Blow, Men

  Edmund Spenser (1965). “Books I and II of the Faerie queene: the mutability cantos, and selections from the minor poetry”

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