Chivalry famous quotes

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

#Men #Chivalry #Odd

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

#Men #Ideas #Chivalry

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

#Grateful #Chivalry #Form

Justice is better than chivalry if we cannot have both.
-- Alice Stone Blackwell

#Justice #Social Justice #Chivalry

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

#Order #Knighthood #Chivalry

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

#Ambition #Growth #Chivalry

Chivalry should be consensual.
-- Emma Watson

#Chivalry #Should

There is another side to chivalry. If it dispenses leniency, it may with equal justification invoke control.
-- Freda Adler

#May #Sides #Chivalry

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 Andelin

#Return #Chivalry #Femininity

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

#Love #Chivalry #Motto

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

#Age #Chivalry #Form

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

#Kings #England #Chivalry

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

#Chivalry #Reflexes #Involuntary

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

#Thinking #Chivalry #Heard

Chivalry is not only dead, it’s decomposed.
-- Rudy Vallee

#Chivalry

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

#Men #Age #Chivalry

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

#Heart #Men #Chivalry

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

#Horse #Chivalry

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

#Peace #Delight #Chivalry

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

#Wow #Culture #Chivalry

Chivalry is not only dead, it’s decomposed.
-- Rudy Vallee

#Palm Beach #Chivalry

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

#Baseball #Chivalry #Tradition