A Quote by Charles Dickens

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

Charles Dickens

Quote Topics

Age Bores Chivalry Dragons Past Succeeded

Quote Author

Charles Dickens
English - Novelist
February 7, 1812 - June 9, 1870

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

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

You live in the present and you eliminate things that don't matter. You don't carry the burden of the past. I'm not impressed by the past very much. The past bores me, to tell you the truth; it really bores me. I don't remember many movies and certainly not my own.

Paulette Goddard

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

Charles Sumner

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

Charles Sumner

In the system of chivalry, men protect women against men. This is not unlike the protection relationship which [organized crime] established with small businesses in the early part of this century. Indeed, chivalry is an age-old protection racket which depends for its existence on rape.

Susan Griffin

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

It seems as if an age of genius must be succeeded by an age of endeavour; riot and extravagance by cleanliness and hard work.

Virginia Woolf

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

Mason Cooley

Alas! it is true: "Be polite to bores and so shall you have bores always round about you."

Emily Post

We give kudos to people who have succeeded. We don't care in what they succeeded as long as they succeeded. The worst thing that can happen to anybody in this cultural environment is to fail.

Desmond Tutu

What bores the listener bores the speaker too.

Marshall B. Rosenberg

People who deny the existence of dragons are often eaten by dragons. From within.

Ursula K. Le Guin

I daresay Freddy might not be a great hand at slaying dragons- but one has not the smallest need of a man who can kill dragons!

Georgette Heyer

If God bores you, tell Him that He bores you, that you prefer the vilest amusements to His presence, that you only feel at your ease when you are far from Him.