Quotes About Chivalry

The first Latin up a ladder was Aubery Clements, marshal of France, one of Philip's leading knights. It was said later among the Christians' forces that, before climbing the breach, Aubery had called out defiantly: 'Either I shall die today, or God willing, I will enter Acre.

Alas! For shame," said Sir Launcelot, "that ever one knight should betray another! But it is an old saw, a good man is never in danger, but when he is in danger of a coward.

yield the lady, or prepare to maintain his right by arms.

he contended only for glory, and was contented to leave him the lady.

The combat deepens. On, ye brave,Who rush to glory or the grave!Wave, Munich! all thy banners wave,And charge with all thy chivalry!

Artist and scholar, warrior and statesman, husband and father, ?a?rat 'Al? is a traditional model for chivalry, learning, and devotion.

I thought you were a white knights who put great store in chivalry. It's not the least chivalrous of you to try to seduce me.

He was a warrior, a modern-day white knight.

Romance made every woman beautiful, and every man a prince. A woman with romance in her life lived as grandly as a queen, because her heart was treasured.

Whatever happened to women who liked to be swept off their feet?' 'They got dropped,' Diana said flatly.

You don't cheat, steal, or lie. You don't misuse animals or take advantage of those weaker than you. You don't spoil for a fight—which is a rule come to be in the last few years—but you don't walk away from one. You stand for your friends and for your round in the pub. You never touch a woman who belongs to another, and you don't give your word unless you intend to keep it.

I'll tell you, he's a man of rules. You don't cheat, steal, or lie. You don't misuse animals or take advantage of those weaker than you. You don't spoil for a fight—which is a rule come to be in the last few years—but you don't walk away from one. You stand for your friends and for your round in the pub. You never touch a woman who belongs to another, and you don't give your word unless you intend to keep it.

I'll tell you, he's a man of rules. You don't cheat, steal, or lie. You don't misuse animals or take advantage of those weaker than you. You don't spoil for a fight ... but you don't walk away from one. You stand for your friends and for your round in the pub. You never touch a woman who belongs to another, and you don't give your word unless you intend to keep it.

closing it for her after she was seated.

It was protective, on her side; sprang from a sense of being in league together, a presentiment of something that was bound to part them (they spoke of marriage always as a catastrophe), which led to this chivalry, this protective feeling which was much more on her side than Sally's.

Mi señora -dijo Marco, inclinándose ante ella-, vuestra radiante belleza ha sido para mí una brillante estrella que me ha guiado hasta la victoria. Os suplico que vuestros luminosos rayos consientan rozar mi oscuro y triste corazón, arrancándolo de las profundas tinieblas en las que se halla sin vuestro favor. Os ruego aceptéis que os ofrezca mi esfuerzo de hoy, y perdonéis mi atrevimiento al solicitaros que me admitaís como vuestro caballero.

I'm not old-fashioned when it comes to dating, but there's something nice about a guy pulling out a girl's chair and opening the door for her, even if it's just in the beginning.

But one item was left behind in Kansas, to be discovered in 1886: a Spanish sword from Coronado's expedition, inscribed with the name of its owner, Juan Gallegos, and on the blade these words: "Do not draw me without right. Do not sheath me without honor." Here at once is summed up the essential chivalry of the Conquistadors.

Once a gentleman, and always a gentleman.

The age of chivalry is past. Bores have succeeded to dragons.

There ain't a gen'lm'n in all the land – nor yet sailing upon all the sea – that can love his lady more than I love her.

Honi soit qui mal y pense' – 'Shame on him who thinks evil of this.' The phrase

What does a female knight do? What all knights do. She goes out and slays dragons. When she's back at the castle, she's wooing fair maidens or handsome men.

I'm always have been in my life a big protector of women. If I see a guy slap a girl I would rip their head off; I'm very like that.