Quotes About Chivalry

This damsel loves rescuing princes in distress.

And then Gwalchmai said, 'No one should distract an ordained knight from his thoughts in a discourteous way, for perhaps he has either suffered a loss or he is thinking about the woman he loves best.

Thou were the meekest man and the gentlest that ever ate in hall among ladies. And thou were the sternest knight to thy mortal foe that ever put spear in the rest.

Sir Thomas Malory

Such a fellowship of good knights shall never be together in no company.

For as well as I have loved thee, mine heart will not serve me to see thee, for through thee and me is the flower of kings and knights destroyed.

Always Sir Arthur lost so much blood that it was marvel he stood on his feet, but he was so full of knighthood that knightly he endured the pain.

Ah! fair damosel, said Balin, worthiness, and good tatches, and good deeds, are not only in arrayment, but manhood and worship is hid within man's person, and many a worshipful knight is not known unto all people, and therefore worship and hardiness is not in arrayment.

The most part of all princes have more delight in warlike manners and feats of chivalry than in the good feats of peace.

And they drank the red wine through the helmet barred.

Faint heart never won fair lady!Nothing venture, nothing win—Blood is thick, but water's thin—In for a penny, in for a pound—It's Love that makes the world go round!

A woman's honor rests on manly love.

My love was both humble and audacious, like that of a page for his lady.

Without waiting for Momma's thanks, he rode out of the yard, sure that things were as they should be and that he was a gentle squire, saving those deserving serfs from the laws of the land, which he condoned.

The fact that he was willing to sacrifice his own face in order to keep mine from getting bashed in

Oh, thank you, young man!" one of the women said. Her glasses made her eyes look gigantic. "Chivalry still exists in this day and age. See, Flo? What a gentleman.

Who do you serve?" Lanferelle asked. "Sir John Cornerwailled," Hook said proudly. Lanferelle was pleased. "Sir John! Ah, there's a man. His mother must have slept with a Frenchman.

Houve um tempo em que Sansum se ajoelhava diante de mim e beijava minha espada

For Arthur, at last, had come.

To protect the honour of the king's sister, of course

I want it to be the poet's Camelot: green grass and high towers and ladies in gowns and warriors strewing their paths with flowers. I want minstrels and laughter! Wasn't it ever like that? A little, I said, though I don't remember many flowery paths. I do recall the warriors limping out of battle, and some of them crawling and weeping with their guts trailing behind them in the dust.

expressed itself not only in politics, but also in art, romance, chivalry, and war. It expressed itself very little in the intellectual world, because education was almost wholly confined to the clergy. The explicit philosophy of the Middle Ages is not an accurate mirror of the times, but only of what was thought by one party. Among ecclesiastics, however--especially among the Franciscan friars --a certain

In this book chivalry receives its fair share of attention, not from the romantic point of view, but as an elaborate game which the upper classes invented to beguile the intolerable tedium of their lives. An essential part of chivalry was the curious courtly conception of love as something which it was pleasant to leave unsatisfied.

He is, we are told, a warrior from a bygone era, an old-fashioned knight for whom the virtues of chivalry and respect for the foe are indivisible from the passion for victory. In other words," says Kennedy Shaw, "you can't even hate the bastard!