Chivalry Quotes

Chivalry is not only dead, it’s decomposed.

To awaken chivalry we must return to femininity. We must stop doing the masculine things and become the gentle, tender, dependent women we were designed to be.

Chivalry is dead. Women killed it.

The motto of chivalry is also the motto of wisdom;
to serve all,
but love only one.

Muslims are peace-loving people generally. Among the young, yes, there are some militant attitudes. But a lot of it arises out of chivalry.

It's odd that men feel they must protect women, since for the most part they must be protected from men.

The institution of chivalry forms one of the most remarkable features in the history of the Middle Ages.

For me chivalry isn't dead; it's an involuntary reflex.

I heard that chivalry was dead, but I think it's just got a bad flue.

The word "Chivalry" is derived from the French Cheval, a horse.

It's stasis that kills you off in the end, not ambition.

The most part of all princes have more delight in warlike manners and feats of chivalry than in the good feats of peace.

Chivalry isn't really dead you know." "Oh?" "Nah. That guy's just an asshole.

The tradition of professional baseball always has been agreeably free of chivalry. The rule is, "Do anything you can get away with."

When his apprenticeship was finished (the candidate for Knighthood) was received into the Knightly Order by a ritual of sacramental awe.

Chivalry is not dead and you should be a gentleman. But if you are going to buy a girl a drink, buy it. Don't just offer it. Follow through.

In the system of chivalry, men protect women against men. This is not unlike the protection relationship which [organized crime] established with small businesses in the early part of this century. Indeed, chivalry is an age-old protection racket which depends for its existence on rape.

Cervantes smiled Spain's chivalry away.

I truly love our Code of Chivalry. We are taught that noblemen must take everything and say nothing. Noblemen must stand alone. Well, we're men, and men aren't born to stand alone.

Never was Catholicism, never were the ideas of chivalry, impressed on men so deeply, so multifariously, as the bourgeois ideas.

It is always difficult for a woman to be grateful for a form of chivalry that seems to be based on the premise that she is a moron.

I love having the door opened for me. Isn't that just polite? But the key is, would you then mind if I opened the door for you? The key is, chivalry should be consensual. Both parties should be feeling good about that.

The combat deepens. On, ye brave, Who rush to glory or the grave! Wave, Munich! all thy banners wave, And charge with all thy chivalry!

You end up with this succession of periods when everything was marvellous - from King Arthur to the medieval times, Ivanhoe, chivalry, Henry VIII, Merry England, the Blitz

For my part, I may speak it to my shame, I have a truant been to chivalry; And so I hear he doth account me too.

My further advice on your relations to women is based upon that other motto of chivalry,
"Serve all,
love one."

A woman must be truly refined to incite chivalry in the heart of a man.

What if custom is wrong? demanded the part of her that believed in the code of chivalry. A knight must set things right.

Other Courtesies have been - Other Courtesy may be - We commend ourselves to thee Paragon of Chivalry.