Quotes About Chivalry

He's a closet gentleman

Looke who that is moost vertuous alway,Pryvee and apert, and most entendeth ayTo do the gentil dedes that he kan;Taak hym for the grettest gentil man.

He was of knyghthod and of fredom flour.

That he is gentil that dooth gentil dedis.

He was a verray, parfit gentil knyght.

They may be surprised to find how tough a warrior code the chivalry of medieval times was and how much it valued sheer prowess.

You rose because hundreds of years ago, when a woman entered a room full of men, she wasn't exactly safe. Especially if she was beautiful or had holdings. Our magic is just as deadly, but physically, an average male is stronger than an average woman, so when a woman entered the room, men who knew her stood up to indicate that they would shield her from danger. The three of you just declared yourself my protectors." They

Chivalry is itself the poetry of life. —SCHLEGEL, Philosophy of History.

Prawdziwy d?entelmen nigdy nie d??y do wyruchania dziewczyny na pierwszej randce (chyba, ?e nie planuje drugiej).

Valour is nobleness of the mind.

Faint heart never won fair lady.

I'm trying to be more of a gentleman.

I quite like it when I'm on the Tube and people offer me their seat. Sometimes I take it. The other day I was offered a seat by a pregnant lady. I thought, 'That's going a bit far.'

I've twice run against women opponents, and it's a very different kind of approach. For those of us who have some chivalry left, there's a level of respect... You treat some things as a special treasure; you treat other things as common.

I'm insanely girly. I like having the door opened for me. I want to cook dinner for my boyfriend. And I can't wait to have babies.

More than a code of manners in war and love, Chivalry was a moral system, governing the whole of noble life.

Chivalry - ...a romantic idealism closely related to Christianity, which makes honor the guiding principle of conduct. Connected with this is the ancient concept of the gentleman.

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

So faithful in love, and so dauntless in war, There never was knight like young Lochinvar.

In the system of chivalry, men protect women against men. This is not unlike the protection relationship which [organized crime] established with small businesses in the early part of this century. Indeed, chivalry is an age-old protection racket which depends for its existence on rape.

Gentlemanly behavior isn't just opening doors: to make an impression, you have to be concerned over a lady's needs at least as much as your own.

I'm a southern gentleman.

I was always the Southern gentleman.

I formally proposed. I'm a good Southern gentleman.