Quotes About Knightly

The trouble with Austin was that he believed so deeply in the chivalrous virtues that he found it impossible to refer to them.

Or ever the knightly years were gone      With the old world to the grave

Or ever the knightly years were gone      With the old world to the grave, I was a king in Babylon

What was decency? A certain form of convention, still bound by the traditions and rules of the knightly jousts. The new conception of honour should be formulated differently: to serve without vanity and unto the last consequence. ...

Now that you made me a knight again", he said lightly, "I'll have to keep my mind on certain knightly virtues like chastity." Ciara could not remember that ever being a knightly virtue.

Knightly love is blent with reverence As heavenly air is blent with heavenly blue.

It is remarkable that chivalry, no matter how actual or merely aspirational it was in its own day, appeared when it did—that it appeared at all!

For men like William, the need for an audience was a simple fact of knightly life.

Great knightly soul who came in time to serve his country's need.