Top 130 Chivalry Quotes & Sayings

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.

To risk life to save a smile on a face of a woman or a child Is the secret of chivalry.

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

Unfortunately, chivalry seems to be on the decline, but let's hope that manners can remain important. I, for one, will certainly be an evangelist with it.

Chivalry isn't really dead you know." "Oh?" "Nah. That guy's just an asshole.

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.

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

Chivalry isn't dead. It's just no longer gender-based.

Other Courtesies have been - Other Courtesy may be - We commend ourselves to thee Paragon of Chivalry.

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

More than a code of manners in war and love, Chivalry was a moral system, governing the whole of noble life.

Cervantes smiled Spain's chivalry away.

Muslims are peace-loving people generally. Among the young, yes, there are some militant attitudes. But a lot of it arises out of chivalry.

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

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

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

I thought ten thousand swords must have leaped from their scabbards to avenge even a look that threatened her with insult. But the age of chivalry is gone.

Who killed Chivalry? They need to get their sentencing Meanwhile we arguing and I can't get a sentence in

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.

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

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

Ever since I was a kid, I've always been fascinated by the Arthurian Legend, and, you know, the notion of nobility in battle and the - the notion of chivalry.

There's a big difference between chauvinism and chivalry.

Chivalry is not only dead, it’s decomposed.

For me chivalry isn't dead; it's an involuntary reflex.

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.

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

A woman must be truly refined to incite chivalry in the heart of a man.

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

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.

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

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

Chivalry - ...a romantic idealism closely related to Christianity, which makes honor the guiding principle of conduct. Connected with this is the ancient concept of the gentleman.

My further advice on your relations to women is based upon that other motto of chivalry, "Serve all, love one."

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

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.

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

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

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

There is no better test of a man's ultimate chivalry and integrity than how he behaves when he is wrong... A stiff apology is a second insult.

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

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.

To him who has thought, or done, or suffered much, the level days of his childhood seem at an immeasureable distance, far off as the age of chivalry, or as the line of Sesostris.

... 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.

Chivalry is dead.

Chivalry is dead. Women killed it.

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.

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

The whole of heraldry and of chivalry is in courtesy. A man of fine manners shall pronounce your name with all the ornament that titles of nobility could ever add.

Justice is better than chivalry if we cannot have both.

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.

The odious and disgusting aristocracy of wealth is built upon the ruins of all that is good in chivalry or republicanism; and luxury is the forerunner of a barbarism scarcely capable of cure.

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.

for ... austere and gracious allegory, as for so much of its mysticism and its chivalry, its ardours and its endurances, the world is in debt to Spain.

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

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.

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

Chivalry is not dead and you should be a gentleman. But if you are going to buy a girl a drink, buy it. Don't just offer it. Follow through.

There are two aspects around which the dynamics of Bollywood revolve - chivalry and chauvinism.

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.