Quotes About Chivalry

Un caballero es aquel que no habla demasiado de los impuestos que paga ni de la mujer con quien se acuesta

I don't like cream puff, corny guys. Usually, they are the nice guys, the ones that won't hurt you. They'll pull out the chair for you and the whole nine yards. Everything is perfect and boring.

Rod's always opening doors for me, but I usually tell him to walk through first. Otherwise, if we're at a restaurant and I'm in front, the paparazzi end up getting a big giant close-up of me, and then he's trailing behind, looking like my little child!

male friendships are essentially quixotic: they last only so long as each man is willing to polish the shaving-bowl helmet, climb on his donkey, and ride off after the other in pursuit of illusive glory and questionable adventure.

Thanks, good sir," he said lightly. "Without your help, the battle might have lasted longer. You deprived me of good sport, but you meant well. Moonglum is my name.

We keep wanting to save those who are forlorn in this world. It's a male habit.

Ever since I was a kid, I've always been fascinated by the Arthurian Legend, and, you know, the notion of nobility in battle and the - the notion of chivalry.

It was my duty to have loved the highest; It surely was my profit had I known: It would have been my pleasure had I seen. We needs must love the highest when we see it, Not Lancelot, nor another.

True love is not only blind, but too gallant to ask a lady's age.

We cannot fight for love, as men may do; we shou'd be woo'd, and were not made to woo

And the mystery knight should defeat all challengers and name the wolf maid the queen of love and beauty.

If they had been riding in a car, she would have waited for him to go around and open the door for her, but riding in a truck is different

The Code of the West Say what you want about me, but leave the horse I rode in on out of it.

Still, taking the good with the bad, chivalry, like Christianity, had a healthy effect upon Western man.

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!

Chivalry combined military, religious, and social concepts into a unified way of life.

It was not enough for knights simply to love and fight well; they needed to sacrifice everything for the highest ideals, such as a Grail quest.

A true gentleman, a chivalrous man, is just a bit more savage than most people imagine. a man who is not roused to combat evil is no gentleman.

Yes, look," said Martine. "The Other has played his knight.

I truly love our Code of Chivalry. We are taught that noblemen must take everything and say nothing. Noblemen must stand alone. Well, we're men, and men aren't born to stand alone. -Myles of Olau

I'm to attend balls and banquets without my squire? demanded Raoul, all innocence. I can't handle things like requesting water to shave with, or getting my clothes pressed. I need Kel.

What if custom is wrong? demanded the part of her that believed in the code of chivalry. A knight must set things right.

Do we say, Oh now I'm going to be nice to the weak and the small? Or do we do as we learned when we were pages?

A knight must develop all his abilities, to the fullest.