Quotes About Chivalry

Women do not find it difficult nowadays to behave like men but they often find it extremely difficult to behave like gentlemen.

When a woman dressjBS up for an occasion the man should become the black velvet pillow for the jewel.

I'm the old-school, letter-writing romantic. I know it's out of style, and not a lot of women go for that these days, but that's what I go for.

I think I was one of those kids that I might not fight you if you stepped on my shoes or stole my lunch money or that kind of stuff. But if you picked on a girl or something like that, that would cause me to rear up a little bit.

It's one thing, holding open the door for someone at a grocery store, or the library, or just about anyplace else. But the doughnut shop is a different thing altogether. This is a get-in-and-out-as-fast-as-you-can operation. There's no room for courtesy or chivalry here.

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If I'm on a bus and an old lady gets on, I get up.

I am the king of old school romance.

My idea of romance is pretty old school.

I believe you should be a gentleman, and that's old-fashioned.

I'm really an old-fashioned girl - I like to be romanced.

I am old-fashioned and like to be taken out for a movie and dinner.

Girls really like for doors to be opened for them. Guys should really remember that.

Opening doors for us, helping us with our jackets and chairs - we love all that.

I'd open doors for anyone who opens doors for me.

She was at the valiant age when we burn to right wrongs and succour the oppressed

Many men in Packy's position would have shrunk from diving in to the rescue, fully clad. Packy was one of them.

Sad but true that nothing puts a woman in her place more effectively than a chivalrous gesture performed in a certain manner.

We're on a Grail quest, Sophie. Who better to help us than a knight?

The essence of honor lay in the moment of combat between equals.

Knight without fear and without reproach.

For me alone Don Quixote was born and I for him. His was the power of action, mine of writing.

He has that quiet deference, that look of pleased, attentive interest, in listening to a woman, which, say what we may, we can none of us resist.

Sportsmanship" had been stretched too far. Like "relativity," it had migrated far afield from its original meaning. It used to refer to the kind of behavior that Lance Armstrong showed Jan Ullrich. But over time the term was stretched to include unimpressive, nonchivalrous behavior, like losing without whining too much or making it through an entire game without assaulting a referee.