Chivalry Quotes

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

Love, Wisdom, Motto

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

Age, Gone, Forever

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

Age, Past, Long

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

Age, Past, Dragons

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

Bad, Dead, Heard

Chivalry is dead.
Sienna Miller

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

History, Middle, Remarkable

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, Lost, Door

There's no chivalry in culture any more. Sometimes you meet someone who everyone says is polite and you're like, 'Wow,' but then it's like, 'Hang on, isn't everyone supposed to be polite?'
will.i.am

Someone, Sometimes, Everyone

Cervantes smiled Spain's chivalry away; A single laugh demolished the right arm Of his country.
George Byron

Single, Laugh, Country

I find British men very gentlemanly... like opening doors. There is a certain chivalry about British men which I like, and I'm a sucker for an accent.
Rachel McAdams

Men, Find, British

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

Great, Romantic, Mind

We take so many of our freedoms for granted nowadays - I can travel where I like, I can have a baby when I like, I can do any job I want - but I do think chivalry has been lost a little bit.
Dan Stevens

Travel, Job, Lost

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

Honor, Days, Sword

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

Peace, War, Old

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

Women, Fact, Often

The age of chivalry has gone; the age of humanity has come.
Charles Sumner

Age, Humanity, Gone

Justice is better than chivalry if we cannot have both.
Alice Stone Blackwell

Justice, Cannot, Both

The word Chivalry is derived from the French cheval, a horse.
Thomas Bulfinch

Word, Horse, French

It's one thing, holding open the door for someone at a grocery store, or the library, or just about anyplace else. But the doughnut shop is a different thing altogether. This is a get-in-and-out-as-fast-as-you-can operation. There's no room for courtesy or chivalry here.
Linwood Barclay

Someone, Different, Else

There is another side to chivalry. If it dispenses leniency, it may with equal justification invoke control.
Freda Adler

May, Control, Another

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

Time, End, Nothing

Thus the castle of each feudal chieftain became a school of chivalry, into which any noble youth, whose parents were from poverty unable to educate him to the art of war, was readily received.
Horatio Alger

War, Art, School

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