132 Quotes About Chivalry
- Author Chrétien de Troyes
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When a man fails to honour ladies, his own honour must be dead.
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- Author Ally Carter
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And Zach was taking his jacket off and draping it around my shoulders, which (according to Liz, who double checked with Macey) is the single-sexiest thing a guy can do.
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- Author Joyce Rachelle
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What a loss it would be if feminism killed chivalry.
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- Author Elizabeth Cady Stanton
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Whatever the theories may be of woman’s dependence on man, in the supreme moments of her life he can not bear her burdens. Alone she goes to the gates of death to give life to every man that is born into the world. No one can share her fears, no one can mitigate her pangs; and if her sorrow is greater than she can bear, alone she passes beyond the gates into the vast unknown.
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- Author Elizabeth Cady Stanton
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How the little courtesies of life on the surface of society, deemed so important from man towards woman, fade into utter insignificance in view of the deeper tragedies in which she must play her part alone, where no human aid is possible.
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- Author E.M. Forster
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and beneath his chivalry to Miss Quested resentment lurked, waiting its day - perhaps there is a grain of resentment in all chivalry.
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- Author Bryn Hammond
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The gallantry was the women's. ... The woman's chivalry in such circumstances is obviously expected.
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- Author Ernst Jünger
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The anarch sticks to facts, not ideas. He suffers not for facts but because of them, and usually through his own fault, as in a traffic accident. Certainly, there are unforeseeable things – maltreatments. However, I believe I have attained a certain degree of self-distancing that allows me to regard this as an accident.
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- Author Gabriellyn Gidman
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Gentlemen always walk ladies home.
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