Quotes About Chivalry

I like 'The Three Musketeers.' I like those kind of cool things where they were having a robe and a sword.

I'd really love to check out medieval times. I'm obsessed with that kind of stuff, like on a horseback with a sword.

I like playing guys with swords and the horses and stuff like that.

Then I'm going to pray that God sends a conundrum your way that you must solve and that you can only solve with His help." Miranda straightened. "That's not very chivalrous." His eyes were kind but firm. "I admire the woman I've come to know here, and while I can't promise I'll ever see her again, I refuse to let her disappear off the face of the earth. You have to keep her alive.

After only a few moments in her presence, he found himself wondering what dragon he might slay for her.

In his mind, that's what made a man a man, that he protected those he cared about. Those he loved.

There's nothing wrong with hunting, in its place. But there are many preferable occupations when in the presence of a young woman.

Scott calls Bois-Guilbert 'an unprincipled voluptuary,' which is hard to improve on.

Conscience has no more to do with gallantry than it has with politics.

chivalry' (a word deriving from horsemanship) had few of the connotations we attach to it today. Like notions of 'honour' – usually a peevishly dangerous self-esteem

I stepped forward. Call me old-fashioned, but I wanted to keep his focus on me and not Annabeth. I think it's polite for a guy to protect his girlfriend from instant incineration.

Chivalry requireth that youth should be trained to perform the most laborious and humble offices with cheerfulness and grace.

I will be brave, thought Despereaux. I will try to be brave like a knight in shining armour. I will be brave for the Princess Pea.

One of the young men she had just met had obviously paid for her ride. Her face was red when he came down the aisle. "I guess," he said, grinning, "if I pay your fare I can sit by you.

knight in shining stirrups.

Then he took the sword in both hands and raised it—and Gawain's posture took on an unmistakable grandeur.

Are you mad because I didn't take the kiss? It wasn't an insult. I have every intention of cashing that check. Just not with all your friends watching." "I appreciate that." "Yeah?" Another searching look. Then he smiled. "Good." "Doesn't mean I'll accept the chit when you cash it. But you scored points for chivalry.

O código de cavalaria não autorizava a nobreza francesa a ficar escondida atrás dos arqueiros mal nascidos, e aquela avançou para entrar em confronto com os cavaleiros ingleses – abdicando assim dos benefícios que a posição em que se encontravam lhes conferia.

When a chivalrous man makes an oath, he is faithful to it, and when he attains power, he spares his enemy.

I've always been inspired by Don Quixote as a role model of sorts, of the power of books to sort of make you insane in maybe a beautiful way.

Now we shall see which of us are good knights!

Feminism was recognized by the average man as a conflict in which it was impossible for a man, as a chivalrous gentleman, as a respecter of the rights of little nations (like little Belgium), as a highly evolved citizen of a highly civilized community, to refuse the claim of this better half to self-determination.

He is as full of valor as of kindness. Princely in both.

I just wondered if you always carry a miniature tool kit when you take a woman out to dinner." "Always. I'm an engineer.