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Quotes About Chivalry

The famous Don Quixote de la Mancha, other wise called the Knight of the Sorrowful Countenance.
~ Miguel de Cervantes
He's [Don Quixote's] a muddled fool, full of lucid intervals.
~ Miguel de Cervantes
Frenchmen have an unlimited capacity for gallantry and indulge it on every occasion.
~ Moliere
When a chivalrous man makes an oath, he is faithful to it, and when he attains power, he spares his enemy.
~ Muhammad Ali
Mi señora, yo atravesaré cien sarracenos por vos si así lo deseáis, y si me dais la venia para portar vuestro favor.
~ Nancy Garden
Don Quixote could never manage without his patient servant Sancho Panza.
~ Unknown
Arturus looked at Peretur as though looking at an enemy, through his visor.
~ Nicola Griffith
Any person who hurts Nami-san's feelings I won't let them live peacefully. -Sanji
~ Unknown
an age of chivalry as outmoded as honour, as obsolete as truth.
~ Olivia Manning
I liked my new owner, as I have said, very quickly; and I liked all his friends and companions the "swells" as your snobs will call them; the men with the pale, handsome faces, borne by crusaders and cavaliers before them; the men with the gentle, quiet ways, and the contemptuous ring in their voices, and the easy indolent insolence to all forms of pretension ; and the frank, kindly, generous hearts for those that know them well; and the manner that is so natural to them,
~ Ouida
A hat should be taken off when you greet a lady and left off for the rest of your life. Nothing looks more stupid than a hat.
~ P. J. O'Rourke
His mother had drummed it into him and his brothers not to treat women like disposable goods. Hell, he had every bit as much sexual drive as the next man. He just had more self-control. Getting
~ Pamela Clare
I would slay dragons for you," he told her. "I suspect that finding an unoccupied bedroom will be easier.
~ Patricia Briggs
It's quite a thing," she said. "There are so many men, all endlessly attempting to sweep me off my feet. And there is one of you, trying just the opposite. Making sure my feet are firm beneath me, lest I fall.
~ Patrick Rothfuss
was no gentleman.
~ Patrick Rothfuss
Haain-a? No. Absolutely not. No. No scalping. He lifted her up and swung her up over the ledges of stone and then followed. He said, It is considered very impolite.
~ Paulette Jiles
The odious and disgusting aristocracy of wealth is built upon the ruins of all that is good in chivalry or republicanism; and LUXURY is the forerunner of a barbarism scarcely capable of cure.
~ Percy Bysshe Shelley
Hold the door for an old man. Old ladies can take care of themselves; they've been doing it long enough.
~ Perry Brass