Chivalry Quotes - Page 5

• Women are safer in perilous situations and emergencies than men, and might be still more so if they trusted themselves more confidingly to the chivalry of manhood.

  Nathaniel Hawthorne

  Trust, Men, Might

  Nathaniel Hawthorne (2015). “The Marble Faun”, p.342, Booklassic

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• The Senator from South Carolina has read many books of chivalry, and believes himself a chivalrous knight, with sentiments of honor and courage. Of course he has chosen a mistress to whom he has made his vows, and who, though ugly to others, is always lovely to him; though polluted in the sight of the world, is chaste in his sight I mean the harlot, Slavery. For her, his tongue is always profuse in words.

  Charles Sumner

  Believe, Book, Mean

  Charles Sumner (2016). “The Complete Works of Charles Sumner”, p.1564, Library of Alexandria

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• The most part of all princes have more delight in warlike manners and feats of chivalry than in the good feats of peace.

  Thomas More

  Peace, Delight, Manners

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• Though I like the various forms of football in the world, I don't think they begin to compare with these two great Anglo-Saxon ball games for sophisticated elegance and symbolism. 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. With football we are back to the monotonous clashing armor of the brontosaurus.

  John Fowles

  Beautiful, Football, Baseball

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• Yea, death and prison we mete out To small offenders of the laws, While honor, wealth, and full respect On greater pirates we bestow. To steal a flower we call mean. To rob a field is chivalry; Who kills the body he must die, Who kills the spirit he goes free.

  Khalil Gibran

  Respect, Flower, Mean

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• In lawn tennis mixed, the basic chivalry move is to pretend to serve less fiercely to the woman than to the man. This is particularly useful if your first service tends to be out in any case.

  Stephen Potter

  Moving, Men, Tennis

  Stephen Potter (1950). “Some notes on lifemanship: with a summary of recent researches in gamesmanship”

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• You end up with this succession of periods when everything was marvellous - from King Arthur to the medieval times, Ivanhoe, chivalry, Henry VIII, Merry England, the Blitz

  Ian Hislop

  Kings, England, King Arthur

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• Never was Catholicism, never were the ideas of chivalry, impressed on men so deeply, so multifariously, as the bourgeois ideas.

  Alexander Herzen

  Men, Ideas, Catholicism

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• Knighterrantry is a most chuckleheaded trade, and it is tedious hard work, too, but I begin to see that there is money in it, after all, if you have luck. Not that I would ever engage in it, as a business, for I wouldn't. No sound and legitimate business can be established on a basis of speculation. A successful whirl in the knighterrantry line--now what is it when you blow away the nonsense and come down to the cold facts? It's just a corner in pork, that's all.

  Mark Twain

  Hard Work, Successful, Blow

  Mark Twain (2015). “A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court”, p.105, Xist Publishing

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• A gentleman who for reasons of chivalry I shall not mention, but who occupied grand office, and who had taken grandly of wine and allowed veritas to overcome him, went up to the Prime Minister and told her he had always fancied her, to which the Prime Minister replied, "Quite right - you have very good taste but I just don't think you would make it at the moment.

  Nicholas Fairbairn

  Taken, Wine, Thinking

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• ...I scarcely am able to govern my muscles, when I see a man start with eager, and serious solicitude, to lift a handkerchief, orshut a door, when the lady could have done it herself, had she only moved a pace or two.

  Mary Wollstonecraft

  Men, Two, Doors

  Mary Wollstonecraft, Philip Barnard, Stephen Shapiro (2013). “A Vindication of the Rights of Woman: Abridged with Related Texts”, p.34, Hackett Publishing

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• There is a certain... chivalry to the style of singing I normally do. Part of the fun for me will be to leave that at the door.

  Josh Groban

  Fun, Doors, Style

  "Josh Groban and Denée Benton are Broadway bound". Interview with David Cote, www.timeout.com. August 23, 2016.

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• In France those absurd perversions of the art of war which covered themselves under the name of chivalry were more omnipotent than in any other country of Europe. The strength of the armies of Philip and John of Valois was composed of a fiery and undisciplined aristocracy which imagined itself to be the most efficient military force in the world, but which was in reality little removed from an armed mob.

  Charles William Chadwick Oman

  Country, Art, Military

  Charles Oman, Sir Charles William Chadwick Oman (1924). “A history of the art of war in the middle ages”

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• Chivalry is like a line of credit. You can get plenty of it when you do not need it.

  Nellie L. McClung

  Needs, Credit, Lines

  Nellie L. McClung (1915). “In Times Like These”, p.41, University of Toronto Press

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• I named my album Year of the Gentleman. Just looking at how the essence of what it is to be a gentleman is very much lacking nowadays. Someone said to me that chivalry is dead, and I hated to have to agree, but it's true.

  Ne-Yo

  Essence, Years, Gentleman

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