Chivalry Quotes - Page 3

• 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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• In times gone by there lived a Count of Ponthieu, who loved chivalry and the pleasures of the world beyond measure, and moreover was a stout knight and a gallant gentleman

  Marie de France

  Knights, Gentleman, Gone

  Marie de France (2015). “Medieval Lays and Legends of Marie de France”, p.135, Xist Publishing

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• As for this young Ali, one cannot but like him. A noble-minded creature, as he shows himself, now and always afterwards; full of affection, of fiery daring. Something chivalrous in him; brave as a lion; yet with a grace, a truth and affection worthy of Christian knighthood.

  Edward Gibbon

  Christian, Brave, Grace

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• Even if I’d been wide awake, I knew Dimitri would’ve taken my suitcase anyway. That’s how he was, a lost remnant of chivalry in the modern world, ever-ready to help others.

  Richelle Mead

  Taken, Helping Others, World

  Richelle Mead (2012). “The Golden Lily: A Bloodlines Novel”, p.24, Penguin

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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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• Respect for woman, the much lauded chivalry of the Middle Ages, meant what I fear it still means to some men in our own day - respect for the elect few among whom they expect to consort.

  Anna Julia Cooper

  Mean, Men, Age

  Anna Julia Cooper (2016). “A Voice from the South”, p.3, Courier Dover Publications

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• He leaned forward and opened his door, politely standing aside to let me by before following me in. There are some advantages to dating a guy from another era, I thought. Though I am a big believer in gender equality, chivalry scores high in my book.

  Amy Plum

  Book, Men, Doors

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• I admit it is better fun to punt than be punted, and that a desire to have all the fun is nine-tenths of the law of chivalry.

  Dorothy L. Sayers

  Fun, Law, Desire

  'Gaudy Night' (1935) ch. 14

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• The tradition of professional baseball always has been agreeably free of chivalry. The rule is, "Do anything you can get away with."

  Heywood Broun

  Baseball, Tradition, Get Away

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• It's odd that men feel they must protect women, since for the most part they must be protected from men.

  Abigail Scott Duniway

  Men, Odd, Protect

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• If war has its chivalry and its pageantry, it has also its hideousness and its demoniac woe. Bullets respect not beauty. They tear out the eye, and shatter the jaw, and rend the cheek.

  John Stevens Cabot Abbott

  War, Eye, Tears

  John Stevens Cabot Abbott (1855). “The History of Napoleon Bonaparte”, p.326

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• Don Quixote thought he could have made beautiful bird-cages and toothpicks if his brain had not been so full of ideas of chivalry. Most people would succeed in small things if they were not troubled with great ambitions.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Beautiful, Ambition, Ideas

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, J. D. McClatchy (2000). “Poems and Other Writings”, p.796, Library of America

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• To awaken chivalry we must return to femininity. We must stop doing the masculine things and become the gentle, tender, dependent women we were designed to be.

  Helen Andelin

  Return, Femininity, Masculine

  Helen Andelin (2013). “Fascinating Womanhood: The Updated Edition of the Classic Bestseller That Shows You How to Strengthen our Marriage and Enrich Your Life”, p.143, Bantam

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• By Chivalries as tiny, A Blossom, or a Book, The seeds of smiles are planted- Which Blossom in the dark.

  Emily Dickinson

  Kindness, Book, Dark

  Emily Dickinson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Emily Dickinson (Illustrated)”, p.309, Delphi Classics

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• What if custom is wrong? demanded the part of her that believed in the code of chivalry. A knight must set things right.

  Tamora Pierce

  Knights, What If, Code

  Tamora Pierce (2007). “First Test: Book 1 of the Protector of the Small Quartet”, p.70, Random House Books for Young Readers

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• Chivalry is a poor substitute for justice, if one cannot have both. Chivalry is something like the icing on the cake, sweet but not nourishing.

  Nellie L. McClung

  Sweet, Cake, Justice

  Nellie L. McClung (1915). “In Times Like These”, p.42, University of Toronto Press

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• ... while our men seem thoroughly abreast of the times on almost every other subject, when they strike the woman question they drop back into sixteenth century logic. They leave nothing to be desired generally in regard to gallantry and chivalry, but they actually do not seem sometimes to have outgrown that old contemporary of chivalry--the idea that women may stand on pedestals or live in doll houses,... but they must not furrow their brows with thought or attempt to help men tug at the great questions of the world.

  Anna Julia Cooper

  Men, Ideas, House

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• It is always difficult for a woman to be grateful for a form of chivalry that seems to be based on the premise that she is a moron.

  Alice Duer Miller

  Grateful, Form, Difficult

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• The Spanish voyager, as his caravel ploughed the adjacent seas, might give full scope to his imagination, and dream that beyond the long, low margin of forest which bounded his horizon lay hid a rich harvest for some future conqueror; perhaps a second Mexico with its royal palace and sacred pyramids, or another Cuzco with its temple of the Sun, encircled with a frieze of gold. Haunted by such visions, the ocean chivalry of Spain could not long stand idle.

  Francis Parkman

  Dream, Ocean, Sea

  Francis Parkman, David Levin (1983). “France and England in North America: Pioneers of France in the New World. The Jesuits of North America in the seventeenth century. La Salle and the discovery of the Great West. The old régime in Canada”, p.27, Library of America

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• For my part, I may speak it to my shame,
  I have a truant been to chivalry;
  And so I hear he doth account me too.

  William Shakespeare

  May, Speak, Shame

  William Shakespeare, Roma Gill (2002). “Henry IV”, p.108, Oxford University Press, USA

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• The combat deepens. On, ye brave, Who rush to glory or the grave! Wave, Munich! all thy banners wave, And charge with all thy chivalry!

  Thomas Campbell

  Bravery, Munich, Wave

  Thomas Campbell (1822). “Poetical Works”, p.161

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• Only in the Roman Empire and in Spain under Arab domination has culture been a potent factor. Under the Arab, the standard attained was wholly admirable; to Spain flocked the greatest scientists, thinkers, astronomers, and mathematicians of the world, and side by side there flourished a spirit of sweet human tolerance and a sense of purist chivalry. Then with the advent of Christianity, came the barbarians.

  Adolf Hitler

  Sweet, Tolerance, World

  "Hitler's secret Conversations". Book by H R Trevor-Roper, p. 542, 1953.

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• 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

  Doors, Library, Different

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• Like a sea-beast fished up from the depths, or a diver too suddenly hoisted, my veins threatened to burst from the fall in pressure. I had great anxiety and no means of relieving it ... And then it was that the Muse of Painting came to my rescue - out of charity and out of chivalry ... - and said, "Are these toys any good to you? They amuse some people."

  Winston Churchill

  Fall, Mean, Sea

  Winston Churchill (2012). “Churchill: The Power of Words”, p.140, Da Capo Press

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• So the horns of the stag are sharp to offend his adversary, but are branched for the purpose of parrying or receiving the thrusts of horns similar to his own, and have therefore been formed for the purpose of combating other stags for the exclusive possession of the females; who are observed, like the ladies in the times of chivalry, to attend to the car of the victor. The final cause of this contest amongst the males seems to be, that the strongest and most active animal should propagate the species, which should thence become improved.

  Erasmus Darwin

  Animal, Car, Survival

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