Chivalry Quotes

• A gentleman is someone who does not what he wants to do, but what he should do.

  Haruki Murakami

  Gentleman, Doe, Want

  Haruki Murakami (2011). “Norwegian Wood”, p.72, Random House

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• More than a code of manners in war and love, Chivalry was a moral system, governing the whole of noble life.

  Barbara Tuchman

  War, Knighthood, And Love

  Barbara W. Tuchman (2011). “A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century”, p.62, Random House

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• The motto of chivalry is also the motto of wisdom; to serve all, but love only one.

  Honore de Balzac

  Love, Motto, Cute Love

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• You cannot have a proud and chivalrous spirit if your conduct is mean and paltry; for whatever a man's actions are, such must be his spirit.

  Demosthenes

  Life, Success, Mean Girls

  Demosthenes (2015). “Complete Works of Demosthenes (Delphi Classics)”, p.1827, Delphi Classics

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• Gentlemen, be courteous to the old maids, no matter how poor and plain and prim, for the only chivalry worth having is that which is the readiest to to pay deference to the old, protect the feeble, and serve womankind, regardless of rank, age, or color.

  Louisa May Alcott

  Color, Gentleman, Age

  Louisa May Alcott (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Louisa May Alcott (Illustrated)”, p.604, Delphi Classics

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• There is no better test of a man's ultimate chivalry and integrity than how he behaves when he is wrong... A stiff apology is a second insult.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Integrity, Apology, Men

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• Some say that the age of chivalry is past, that the spirit of romance is dead. The age of chivalry is never past, so long as there is a wrong left unredressed on earth.

  Charles Kingsley

  Birthday, Romantic, Past

  Charles Kingsley, Frances Eliza Kingsley (2011). “Charles Kingsley, His Letters and Memories of His Life”, p.461, Cambridge University Press

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

  Charles Dickens

  Past, Bores You, Dragons

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• For me chivalry isn't dead; it's an involuntary reflex.

  Jim Butcher

  Reflexes, Involuntary

  Jim Butcher (2002). “Summer Knight: Book four of The Dresden Files”, p.107, Penguin

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• But the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophisters, economists, and calculators has succeeded; and the glory of Europe is extinguished forever.

  Edmund Burke

  Birthday, Europe, Forever

  Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790)

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• To risk life to save a smile on a face of a woman or a child
  Is the secret of chivalry.

  Dejan Stojanovic

  Smile, Children, Risk

  "Simplicity". Poem by Dejan Stojanovic,

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• The whole of heraldry and of chivalry is in courtesy. A man of fine manners shall pronounce your name with all the ornament that titles of nobility could ever add.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Names, Titles

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, David Mikics (2012). “The Annotated Emerson”, p.147, Harvard University Press

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• Chivalry - ...a romantic idealism closely related to Christianity, which makes honor the guiding principle of conduct. Connected with this is the ancient concept of the gentleman.

  Richard M. Weaver

  War, Guiding Principles, Gentleman

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• Whatever happened to chivalry? Does it only exist in 80's movies? I want John Cusack holding a boombox outside my window. I wanna ride off on a lawnmower with Patrick Dempsey. I want Jake from Sixteen Candles waiting outside the church for me. I want Judd Nelson thrusting his fist into the air because he knows he got me. Just once I want my life to be like an 80's movie, preferably one with a really awesome musical number for no apparent reason. But no, no, John Hughes did not direct my life.

  Emma Stone

  Air, Numbers, Waiting

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• The institution of chivalry forms one of the most remarkable features in the history of the Middle Ages.

  Horatio Alger

  Age, Form, Middle

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• Chivalry!---why, maiden, she is the nurse of pure and high affection---the stay of the oppressed, the redresser of grievances, the curb of the power of the tyrant ---Nobility were but an empty name without her, and liberty finds the best protection in her lance and her sword.

  Walter Scott

  Names, Tyrants, Nurse

  Walter Scott (2001). “Ivanhoe”, p.109, Classic Books Company

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• The age of Chivalry is gone. An age of Humanity has come.

  Charles Sumner

  Diversity, Justice, Humanity

  "The Complete Works of Charles Sumner".

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• Here is the world of imagination, hopes, and dreams. In this timeless land of enchantment, the age of chivalry, magic and make-believe are reborn - and fairy tales come true. Fantasyland is dedicated to the young-in-heart, to those who that when you wish upon a star, your dreams come true.

  Walt Disney

  Dream, Stars, Believe

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• When his apprenticeship was finished (the candidate for Knighthood) was received into the Knightly Order by a ritual of sacramental awe.

  Ariel Durant

  Order, Knighthood, Apprenticeship

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• Thank God for the passing of the discomforts and vile cuisine of the age of chivalry!

  Mason Cooley

  Thank God, Age, Cuisine

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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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