Chivalry Quotes

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

Justice is better than chivalry if we cannot have both.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

Chivalry is dead.

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.

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