Quotes About Chivalry

A boy stepping into the street and opening an umbrella for a girl keeping dry in the doorway.

Earnest young knights are my favorite. I love the looks on their faces when they realize that they're being slow-cooked in their own armor.

Mark this one thing my boy: never, never, never can a man make himself ridiculous in the eyes of a woman by anything he may do on her account. Not even by the most childish performances. Do anything you like, stand on your head, talk the most utter twaddle, swank like a peacock, sing under her window - anything at all but one thing: don't be matter of fact, don't be sensible.

Do you know how one knows a cavalier when one sees him? He always behaves decently when he is drunk.

Derane, zapamti jednom: nikad, nikad, nikad ?ovek ne postaje smešan pred ženom ako radi nje ?ini nešto. ?ak i pri naglupljoj lakrdiji. Radi šta ho?eš; govori gluposti, hvališi se kao paun, pevaj pod njenim prozorom, samo ne ?ini jedno: ne budi poslovan, ne budi trezven! - Šta ti veliš na to, Oto? Kester se smejao. - Bi?e da je ta?no.

Late that afternoon, he devoted two quiet hours to his Old South, losing himself in another, more chivalrous age.

Jealousy, fear, and anger are all obstacles to a knight's first goal: a clear mind

What's chivalrous about saying you've seen a rhinoceros?

Draw me not without reason; sheath me not without honour".

No me desenvaines sin causa, no me envaines sin honor

The freshly dubbed knight, Geralt of Rivia, bowed low, so that Queen Meve, his suzerein, would not see the smile - the bitter smile - that he was unable to resist.

Où nos héros arrivent à Münsterberg lors d'un tournoi de chevalerie très européen. Pour Reynevan, ce contact avec l'Europe s'avère triste. Bah ! Douloureux même.

A jizva? Pro rytíÃ…â"¢a je to ?estná památka, známka slávy a proslulosti, když mu ju kapitula tak pÃ…â"¢ála. RytíÃ…â"¢ bez jizvy je kokot, a ne hrdina. Optej sa ho, hrabÄ›, uvidíÅ¡, že je rád.

Don't go after the succubus, leave it in peace. Saying nothing to the ladies or the duchess. And 'pon my word, we, the gentlemen of Toussaint, will outbid the ladies' offer.

Mr. Cross, who was digging up dandelions on the lawn with a spud, came up to the car and courteously helped them out, which really makes the getting out more difficult, for there are only two ways of getting out of an ordinary small car: the one, to slide your legs out first and somehow get your skirt and the rest of you to follow rather like coming down a fire escape, the other to get out with your back to the audience and not care what it looks like.

There's one scene where I took my t-shirt off. I was wearing a t-shirt and a hoodie, and I took my hoodie off and took my t-shirt off to give to the girl because she got her top dirty or something. It was like, why don't I just give her my hoodie - that makes no sense whatsoever! I just took off another layer just to take my top off.

The idea of a stag hunt evokes chivalry - knights in jerkins and hose, ladies on sidesaddles with wimples and billowing dresses, a white stag symbolizing something-or-other, and Robin Hood getting in the way. An actual stag hunt is more like a horseback meeting of a county planning commission.

Men need to learn how to treat a woman, and I feel like through this dancing, it definitely gives you that exposure.

I saved a girl from being attacked last night. I controlled myself.

quixotically.

Yes, but then I came and rescued her!" the White Knight replied.

In proceeding to the dining-room, the gentleman gives one arm to the lady he escorts—it is unusual to offer both. In proceeding to the dining-room, the gentleman gives one arm to the lady he escorts—it is unusual to offer both.

Look at the testimony of literature. In the days of chivalry our sympathies go with the Knight-errant, who redresses wrongs; with the King, whose courage and wisdom deliver his people from their enemies. But when Kingship became tyranny, and feudalism oppression, we took our heroes from the rebels. Robin Hood, Hereward the Wake, Bonnie Prince Charlie, Rob Roy; it was always the Under Dog that appealed to the artist.

Offering a lady a chair was one way of showing that this work was appreciated, and that strength and brute force—at which men generally tended to excel—was not the only thing that counted. Respect for ladies tamed men, and there were many men who were sorely in need of taming; that was well known, said Mma Ramotswe.