Quotes About Chivalry

I think the boxing game is supposed to be a gentleman's sport.

Read Don Quixote; it is a very good book; I still read it frequently.

You saved me again, she told him with a starstruck gaze. He cupped her cheek and gave her a tender smile in the dark. Because you are my princess and I am your knight.

He bowed. 'The young lady must not dance alone.

So far as I am concerned, I could not be accused of having set eyes, or having wished to set eyes, upon Darius' wife: on the contrary, I have refused even to listen to those who spoke to me of her beauty.

You should never put your hands on a woman, under any circumstances.

Opportunity knocks for every man, but you have to give a woman a ring.

I always open doors for women. It's just good manners.

The men in those old days of the seventeenth century, when in constant dread of attacks by Indians, always rose when the services were ended and left the house before the women and children, thus making sure the safe exit of the latter.

I'm progressive in some ways, old-fashioned in others. I like it when guys hold the door open and are sweet and thoughtful.

So Randal, who had never thought to be a knight, had his knighthood after all; and would have given all the world to be only Bevis's squire again.

Speak of my future wife in anything but the most reverent of tones again, and it will be pistols at dawn.

I am in favor of preserving the French habit of kissing ladies' hands — after all, one must start somewhere.

and there encountered with him all at once Sir Bors, Sir Ector, and Sir Lionel, and they three smote him at once with their spears, and with force of themselves they smote Sir Lancelot's horse reverse to the earth. And by misfortune Sir Bors smote Sir Lancelot through the shield into the side...

So, from the cradle to the grave, women strove to make men pleased with themselves, and the satisfied men repaid lavishly with gallantry and adoration. In fact, men willingly gave the ladies everything in the world except credit for having intelligence.

A gentleman always appeared to believe a lady even when he knew she was lying. That was Southern chivalry. A gentleman always obeyed the rules and said the correct things and made life easier for a lady.

Logan lowers his head close to mine. 'Just know this, Ivy Calhhoun, ' he begins. 'If I werena a ghost I would open all door for you, properly.

No soy un caballero y probablemente no sea lo que tú quieres, pero puedes estar segura de que voy a ser lo que necesitas

He took his own saber by the blade and handed it to Alek, pommel first, as if offering it to a victor.

It was a basic tenet of faith with men of Ranulf's class that a knight, trained in the ways of war since boyhood, could easily vanquish lesser foes, as much a belief in the superiority of blood and breeding as in the benefits of battle lore and killing competence. Ranulf had accepted this comforting conviction, too, but no one seemed to have told his assailants that they were inferior adversaries.

We're multigenerational Squires. (Carl) Which means what? You prance around with tinfoil armor and plastic swords pretending to be knights? (Nick)

Are all knights so gentle? (Taryn) I know not, Taryn, since I don't make it my habit to lie abed with other knights. (Sparhawk)

You should always give your opponent a fighting chance. Let the best fighter win, and if it's not you, then die with dignity. (Stryker)

What are you, like a rent-a-white-knight? (Abbie)