Quotes About Chivalry
D'Artagnan: Why is Athos sitting by himself? Aramis: He takes his drinking very seriously. Not to worry, he'll be his usual charming self by morning.
~ Alexandre Dumas
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Women and doors - did I not tell you, friend Porthos, that they are always to be managed by gentleness? - D'Artagnan
~ Alexandre Dumas
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No one is as brave, as adventurous or as skillful as D'Artagnan, without at the same time being inclined to be a dreamer.
~ Alexandre Dumas
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I and life: The case was settled chivalrously. The opponents parted without having made up.
~ Karl Kraus
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If Women's Lib want a crack at the positions of power, they must forfeit their position of weakness. It will be men and children in future who will be helped solicitously into the first lifeboats, and the man who sits like a stuck pig in the car while his wife leaps out in the pouring rain, opens the door for him, and spikes her eyes out as she covers him with an umbrella.
~ Jilly Cooper
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Don Quixote would understand golf. It is the impossible dream
~ Jim Murray
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As for the other little amenities — yes, the lady lets the man light her cigarette, help her on with her coat, and open the door for her. Even if he's the boss. Manners are manners, and success doesn't mean that a woman has to forgo the courtesies that make life easy and pleasant.
~ Joan Crawford
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The tongueless torturer and the flower of chivalry. An unlikely alliance.
~ Joe Abercrombie
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Then she'd stared at him with those radiant blue eyes and asked him to let her go. And bugger, bugger, bigger, he'd suddenly imagined he was sodding Sir Galahad.
~ Anna Campbell
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Then she'd stared at him with those radiant blue eyes and asked him to let he go. And bugger, bugger, bugger, he'd suddenly imagined he was sodding Sir Galahad.
~ Anna Campbell
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Don't go looking for boys in the dark They will say pretty things then leave you with scars. Do go looking for boys in the park For that is where the true gentlemen are.
~ Anna Godbersen
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caballero" to the waiters. The last guy I saw doing that was Manolito in the High Chaparral.
~ Anna Smith
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I am a fan of wuxia.
~ Zhang Yimou
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The Southern whites are in many respects a great people. Looked at from a certain point of view, they are picturesque. If one will put oneself in a romantic frame of mind, one can admire their notions of chivalry and bravery and justice.
~ James Weldon Johnson
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With the advent of chivalry, the art of boxing waned. The evolution of feudal aristocracy, with other and widely different exercises, pastimes and weapons from those of the common people, made boxing unfashionable.
~ John Boyle O'Reilly
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It is too late for me to learn your wisdom in this matter. From the time I knew aught, I have lived with a knight and his lady whose love lit and warmed the dark hall on winter's nights. Madam, my example comes not from any book of romance. My grandparents walked and breathed; they kissed and quarreled. This I must have, and I will seek it with the point of my knife in a bad husband's heart if I can find it no other way.
~ Roberta Gellis
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Oh, my boy. The best mistake Chivalry ever made was you. Go on now.
~ Robin Hobb
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Twas Chivalry's son, His eyes like flame, Who shared his blood If not his name. A Farseer son, But ne'er an heir. Whose bloodied locks No crown would bear.
~ Robin Hobb
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Go back' Taran shouted at the top of his voice.'Have you lost your wits?' Eilonwy, for it was she, half-halted. She had tucked her plaited hair under a leather helmet. The Princess of Llyr smiled cheerfully at him. 'I understand you're upset,' she shouted back, 'but that's no cause to be rude.' She galloped on. For a time, Taran could not believe he had really seen her.
~ Lloyd Alexander
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But in the West few men would risk bothering a woman. It was the one thing the frontier would not accept - Kilkenny
~ Louis L'Amour
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A real gentleman is as polite to a little girl as to a woman.
~ Louisa May Alcott
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Gentlemen, be courteous to the old maids, no matter how poor and plain and prim, for the only chivalry worth having is that which is the readiest to to pay deference to the old, protect the feeble, and serve womankind, regardless of rank, age, or color.
~ Louisa May Alcott
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The only chivalry worth having is that which is the readiest to pay deference to the old, protect the feeble, and serve womankind, regardless of age, rank, age, or color.
~ Louisa May Alcott
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You cannot have a proud and chivalrous spirit if your conduct is mean and paltry; for whatever a man's actions are, such must be his spirit.
~ Demosthenes
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