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A gentleman doesn't have to flex to know that he is strong.
— Shay Dawkins
It is hard to feel safe and comfortable when the only measures for what is safe and comfortable are normative ideas you don't abide by.
— Samhita Mukhopadhyay
A gentleman is simply a patient wolf.
— Lana Turner
an age of chivalry as outmoded as honour, as obsolete as truth.
— Olivia Manning
Every man is sensitive. Some cover it up with brutality, others with cowardice and vanity, but a small few wear it bravely like armor
— Solange Nicole
Men were good for one thing only. Killing spiders. Other than that, I was on my own. It was sad though. Where was the chivalry of yesteryear?
— Kate Carlisle
Jealousy is but a fool's act of chivalry.
— Raneem Kayyali
When boys unite hearts they become gentlemen.
— Molly Friedenfeld
According to Margaret Mitchell, the Civil War destroyed a civilization of unsurpassable amenity, chivalry, and grace.
— Pat Conroy
Justice is better than chivalry if we cannot have both.
— Alice Stone Blackwell
The world is an ambitious business. It continuously expands and evolves. But people are lazy and God is far too lovely to do something about it.
— Stefan Emunds
Hello, Fortitude," Chivalry said, his voice grave and calm.
— M.L. Brennan
Chivalry was a poor substitute for love.
— Sarah M. Eden
After only a few moments in her presence, he found himself wondering what dragon he might slay for her.
— Regina Scott
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.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
Chivalry is not only dead, it's decomposed.
— Rudy Vallee
Gentleman: An imaginary creature found in Jane Austen novels.
— Natalya Vorobyova
Chivalry is dead. Women killed it.
— Dave Chappelle
The word Chivalry is derived from the French cheval, a horse.
— Thomas Bulfinch
Never was Catholicism, never were the ideas of chivalry, impressed on men so deeply, so multifariously, as the bourgeois ideas.
— Alexander Herzen
I remembered a definition of chivalry I'd heard once: a man protecting a woman against every man but himself.
— James Anderson
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
The age of chivalry is past. Bores have succeeded to dragons.
— Charles Dickens
Thank God for the passing of the discomforts and vile cuisine of the age of chivalry!
— Mason Cooley
When you are in love it's chivalry not rivalry.
— Johnnie Dent Jr.
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
For me chivalry isn't dead; it's an involuntary reflex.
— Jim Butcher
Cervantes smiled Spain's chivalry away; A single laugh demolished the right arm Of his country.
— Lord Byron
What a loss it would be if feminism killed chivalry.
— Joyce Rachelle
Chivalry should be consensual.
— Emma Watson
In this timeless land of enchantment, the age of chivalry, magic and make-believe are reborn and fairy tales come true.
— Walt Disney Company
To risk life to save a smile on a face of a woman or a child is the secret of chivalry.
— Dejan Stojanovic
The only thing I want more than you, is to do right by you.
— Angela N. Blount
For a knight to ride in a carriage was against the principles of chivalry and he never under any circumstances rode a mare.
— Barbara W. Tuchman
Don't worry. Chivalry has practically no appeal for me whatsoever. Neville Fletcher — Georgette Heyer
There is another side to chivalry. If it dispenses leniency, it may with equal justification invoke control.
— Freda Adler
Chivalry in academia is dead.
— Sylvain Reynard
It is chivalry that makes a true knight, not a sword.
— George R R Martin
Love has little to do with romance and everything to do with honor.
— Jesikah Sundin
A woman must be truly refined to incite chivalry in the heart of a man.
— Suzanne Curchod
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
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
A proper Irishman always does what a lady asks him. Sure an' it's been the ruin av us. We're at the mercy av the petticoats.
— L.M. Montgomery
Everything I have done, am doing, and shall do follows the dictates of reason and the laws of chivalry,
— Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra
The age of chivalry has gone; the age of humanity has come.
— Charles Sumner
I didn't hear any of that," he said. "You didn't?" "Nope. Chivalry occasionally causes deafness.
— Merrie Haskell
The institution of chivalry forms one of the most remarkable features in the history of the Middle Ages.
— Horatio Alger
Vagueness spurred him into knight errantry.
— E. M. Forster
The fantastic graces of Chivalry lay upon the surface of life,but beneath it was a half-savage population,fierce and animal,with little ruth or mercy.
— Arthur Conan Doyle
Her name was Hildegardis, and she was acknowledged far and wide as the fairest of maidens.
— Friedrich Heinrich Karl De La Motte Fouque
The motto of chivalry is also the motto of wisdom; to serve all, but love only one.
— Honore De Balzac
Masculinity must prove itself, and do so before an audience.
— Harvey Mansfield
Lovers and warriors are not bound by the rules of fair play.
— Wayne Gerard Trotman
After all of this you're still 'Rayhan the Chivalrous', full of hope and optimism?
— Elizabeth Carlton
We have had the morality of submission, and the morality of chivalry and generosity; the time is now come for the morality of justice.
— John Stuart Mill
Afterward Joe Biden greeted me outside the green room, falling on bent knee to kiss my hand. (Who says chivalry is dead!)
— Hillary Rodham Clinton
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
Was it worth it? My death, I mean. Did I die for something worthwhile?
— Elizabeth Carlton
The glamorous life is a facade, a frauda farce of frivolous trite
The storybook is blank inside
Chivalry has died — Donato DiCristino
Other Courtesies have been -Other Courtesy may be -
We commend ourselves to thee
Paragon of Chivalry. — Emily Dickinson
The very purpose of a knight is to fight on behalf of a lady.
— Thomas Malory
It's only Christian to be chivalrous to your enemies.
— James Clavell
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
Chivalry is dead.
— Sienna Miller
Chivalry does not imply that women are powerless. On the contrary, chivalry is an admission of women's superiority.
— Beth Fantaskey
You have an alarming streak of chivalry for a butler. I'd accuse you of aping your betters, but I have met your houseguests.
— Caroline Dunford
More than a code of manners in war and love, Chivalry was a moral system, governing the whole of noble life ...
— Barbara Tuchman
Jamie, to the best of my understanding, anything you do to help a woman who needs help is chivalry. In this case, that's ploughing.
— Miles Cameron
Aren't you just a knight in shining armor? ... Wherever do you keep your horse? And who scoops up the crap it leaves behind?
— Myra McEntire
Chivalry isn't dead. It's just no longer gender-based.
— Letitia Baldrige
Wake up! You're a sacred soul and glory is yours for the taking.
— Stefan Emunds
He thought of his love now as duty.
— Mary Elizabeth Braddon
Trying to balance chivalry with equality, I always open a door for a Lady ... then stick my foot out
— Josh Stern
It's odd that men feel they must protect women, since for the most part they must be protected from men.
— Abigail Scott Duniway
Chivalry is like a line of credit. You can get plenty of it when you do not need it.
— Nellie L. McClung
