Quotes About Chivalry

Respect for woman, the much lauded chivalry of the Middle Ages, meant what I fear it still means to some men in our own day - respect for the elect few among whom they expect to consort.

A real man isn't somebody who takes advantage of a young girl but who treats her with respect.

I'm a romantic, and I like guys to bring flowers and buy some gifts - not expensive things, just romantic things.

I'm opening the doors, I'm buying dinner. Yeah, I'm romantic.

Lynet scowled. "I'm just so tired of young knights wearing their father's armor and dreaming romantic dreams riding up to their death.

Luke hadn't been nervous when he'd disarmed a cold-eyed gunslinger in an El Paso saloon. Nor when he'd charged the hideout of the notorious Miller Gang. Nor when he'd single-handedly subdued a mob. But as he tied Honey Dew to Georgie's hitching post, his hands shook, his forehead beaded with sweat, and his mouth went dry. He blew out a long breath. It was just a woman. And she was tiny as a cricket bug.

To risk life to save a smile on a face of a woman or a child is the secret of chivalry.

We need knew knights, but without swords.

You cannot have a proud and chivalrous spirit if your conduct is mean and paltry for whatever a man's actions are, such must be his spirit.

Turning in his saddle, Theobald looked at the servants behind them. "We ride on through. If any man reaches for you, kill him." Then without so much as a by-your-leave, he leaned over and snatched Johanna's reins from her grasp, and spurred his horse into motion. As her palfrey complacently followed where he led, Johanna turned her gaze downward to glare at the saddletree and indulged herself in hatred—for him, for his master, but mostly for this

à mon avis, un homme qui traite tout et chaque femme comme une princesse royale offre la preuve vivante que lui-même est né et a grandi dans les bras d'une reine.

When a man treats every woman as a Princess or a Queen, it's a sure proof that he himself was born and raised in the arms of a Queen.

Only a heathen would bring a gun to a swordfight.

You are mistaken. They do not snatch and grab as do the men of your race. With us, no man touches a woman in passion unless he is invited. It is a mark of a warrior that he has complete control of his desires." Elise stared at her in amazement,

And try to stay out of trouble with the ladies. Remember, they all have fathers and brothers and some of them have armies.

Never underestimate the capacity of noble young men to do incredibly foolish things for perfectly good reasons.

The knight returns with the damsel in distress," Jameson declared as I made my way toward him. He glanced toward Grayson. "You're the damsel." "I figured

The kind of man who would take a woman—he's no man at all.

By the time we're done, their guests have gathered outside to see the boy who must have flowers to give to the girl he loves.

Gentlemen are rare. They're like virgins or leprechauns. If I ever get married, I'm going to marry one.

Earth is a merry damsel, and heaven a knight so true

A lady is a woman who makes it easy for a man to be a gentleman.

Hold a bottle by the neck and a woman by the waist. Never the other way around".

Within every one of us, there lives both a Don Quixote and a Sancho Panza to whom we hearken by turns; and though Sancho most persuades us, it is Don Quixote that we find ourselves obliged to admire.