Quotes About Chivalry

Being a real man doesn't mean you sleep with 100 girls. It means you fight for one girl even when 99 others are chasing you...

Be the boy you want your daughter to date. Be the man you want your son to be. Be the guy your partner wished for; a Gentleman.

What a loss it would be if feminism killed chivalry.

Martial arts is about honor and respect.

I like old movies on television where a man lights a woman's cigarette. That's all they seemed to do in those old movies, the men and women. I'm normally so totally disregardless. But every time I see an old movie on television, I keep a sharp eye out for a man lighting a woman's cigarette.

He was dirty, his hair unkempt, his clothes stained with blood. Heroes in stories somehow managed to rescue maidens while looking like court dandies. Next time he went adventuring he'd remember to bring a comb.

I remembered a definition of chivalry I'd heard once: a man protecting a woman against every man but himself.

Ah, Seregil," Kari exclaimed, wiping her eyes with the corner of her apron. "I've never known anyone who could get himself into such messes, and then right back out again!" "It would have been considerably more difficult if Alec hadn't been such a faithful defender of my virtue." Seregil gave Alec a courtly nod. "My lady," Alec murmured, rising to give him a bow of such elaborate solemnity that they all burst out laughing again.

The old interests of aristocracy - the romance of action, the exalted passions of chivalry and war - faded into the background, and their place was taken by the refined and intimate pursuits of peace and civilization.

Love is a passion which kindles honor into noble acts.

Oh what can ail thee, knight-at-arms, Alone and palely loitering?

Lo! I must tell a tale of chivalry;

Nice guys finish last because they make sure they put their woman first which would be fine if women didn't always take advantage of it and mistake being a gentleman for weakness.

I am a warrior for life; My shield is humor; my sword a smile, my armor chivalry and humbleness, my lance, it's being nice with my human kind; my battle, is making you my friend.

warfare was primarily an aristocratic pursuit.

How pure he is, how unfit for a world that even she knew more about than he did. A dragon killer, he was, a rescuer of damsels, and his small sins seemed so great to him that he felt unfit and unseemly.

A knight without mercy is without honor.

Sir Lyonel knew that this sleeping knight would charge to his known defeat with neither hesitation nor despair and finally would accept his death with courtesy and grace as though it were a prize. And suddenly Sir Lyonel knew why Lancelot would gallop down the centuries, spear in rest, gathering men's hearts on his lance head like tilting rings. He chose his side and it was Lancelot's. He brushed a dungfly from the sleeping face.

I shall bere your noble fame, for ye spake a grete worde and fulfilled it worshipfully.

I'm sorry, my lady, " said Geric, rubbing his arm. "But I failed to force an apology out of the offending goose.

Father told me that if I ever met a lady in a dress like yours, I must look her straight in the eyes.

Do not mix de galloping of your horse, my knight, with the beating of your heart.

Great knightly soul who came in time to serve his country's need.

Just the other day in the Underground I enjoyed the pleasure of offering my seat to three ladies.