16 Quotes on Chivalry
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The age of chivalry has gone; the age of humanity has come.
Author:
Charles Sumner
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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.
Author:
Lytton Strachey
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I heard that chivalry was dead, but I think it's just got a bad flue.
Author:
Meg Ryan
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Some say that the age of chivalry is past, that the spirit of romance is dead. The age of chivalry is never past, so long as there is a wrong left unredressed on earth.
Author:
Charles Kingsley
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The Southern whites are in many respects a great people. Looked at from a certain point of view, they are picturesque. If one will put oneself in a romantic frame of mind, one can admire their notions of chivalry and bravery and justice.
Author:
James Johnson
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The age of chivalry is past. Bores have succeeded to dragons.
Author:
Charles Dickens
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The sword was a very elegant weapon in the days of the samurai. You had honor and chivalry much like the knights, and yet it was a gruesome and horrific weapon.
Author:
Dustin Diamond
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Cervantes smiled Spain's chivalry away; A single laugh demolished the right arm Of his country.
Author:
George Byron
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But the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophisters, economists, and calculators has succeeded; and the glory of Europe is extinguished forever.
Author:
Edmund Burke
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The word Chivalry is derived from the French cheval, a horse.
Author:
Thomas Bulfinch
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Justice is better than chivalry if we cannot have both.
Author:
Alice Blackwell
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The motto of chivalry is also the motto of wisdom; to serve all, but love only one.
Author:
Honore Balzac
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In our fathers' time nothing was read but books of feigned chivalry, wherein a man by reading should be led to none other end, but only to manslaughter and bawdry.
Author:
Roger Ascham
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Thus the castle of each feudal chieftain became a school of chivalry, into which any noble youth, whose parents were from poverty unable to educate him to the art of war, was readily received.
Author:
Horatio Alger
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The institution of chivalry forms one of the most remarkable features in the history of the Middle Ages.
Author:
Horatio Alger
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There is another side to chivalry. If it dispenses leniency, it may with equal justification invoke control.
Author:
Freda Adler
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