quotes about Chivalry
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It's odd that men feel they must protect women, since for the most part they must be protected from men.
-- Abigail Scott Duniway -
Never was Catholicism, never were the ideas of chivalry, impressed on men so deeply, so multifariously, as the bourgeois ideas.
-- Alexander Herzen -
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.
-- Alice Duer Miller -
Justice is better than chivalry if we cannot have both.
-- Alice Stone Blackwell -
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When his apprenticeship was finished (the candidate for Knighthood) was received into the Knightly Order by a ritual of sacramental awe...
-- Ariel Durant -
It's stasis that kills you off in the end, not ambition.
-- Bono -
There is another side to chivalry. If it dispenses leniency, it may with equal justification invoke control.
-- Freda AdlerSource : "Sisters in Crime: The Rise of the New Female Criminal". Book by Freda Adler and Herbert M. Adler, 1975.
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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.
-- Helen AndelinSource : Helen Andelin (2013). “Fascinating Womanhood: The Updated Edition of the Classic Bestseller That Shows You How to Strengthen our Marriage and Enrich Your Life”, p.143, Bantam
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The motto of chivalry is also the motto of wisdom; to serve all, but love only one.
-- Honore de Balzac -
The institution of chivalry forms one of the most remarkable features in the history of the Middle Ages.
-- Horatio Alger -
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
-- Ian Hislop -
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For me chivalry isn't dead; it's an involuntary reflex.
-- Jim Butcher -
I heard that chivalry was dead, but I think it's just got a bad flue.
-- Meg Ryan -
Chivalry is not only dead, it’s decomposed.
-- Rudy Vallee -
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.
-- Susan Griffin -
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A woman must be truly refined to incite chivalry in the heart of a man.
-- Suzanne Curchod -
The word "Chivalry" is derived from the French Cheval, a horse.
-- Thomas BulfinchSource : Thomas Bulfinch (2012). “The Age of Chivalry: Or Legends of King Arthur”, p.6, The Floating Press
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The most part of all princes have more delight in warlike manners and feats of chivalry than in the good feats of peace.
-- Thomas More -
There's no chivalry in culture any more. Sometimes you meet someone who everyone says is polite and you're like, 'Wow,' but then it's like, 'Hang on, isn't everyone supposed to be polite?'
-- will.i.am -
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The tradition of professional baseball always has been agreeably free of chivalry. The rule is, "Do anything you can get away with."
-- Heywood Broun