132 Quotes About Chivalry

Men and women don’t have to be exactly equal, but a gentleman does have to allow a woman to be what she wants to be.

It is a disposition natural in women,” said Don Quixote, “to slight those who love them, and love those who hate them.

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.

For any man may be a king in that life in which he is placed if so be he may draw forth the sword of success from out of the iron of circumstance. Where fore when your time of assay cometh, I do hope it may be with you as it was with Arthur that day, and that ye too may achieve success with entire satisfaction unto yourself and to your great glory and perfect happiness.

The sun, rising and setting in splendid colors, never grows tired of its admirers―much like a lady, aglow with grace, never grows tired of chivalrous acts or pretty flowers.

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.

I was holding the door for several girls in front of you, and I waited for you to catch up. When you reached me, you looked pleased, and a little surprised. Unlike the others, you didn't expect the door to be held for you by some random guy. You smiled up at me and said, 'Thank you.

Lovers and warriors are not bound by the rules of fair play.

Child of shadows, once born of fleshUn-winged, amidst fear and agony‘Fraid of the lurking and yet to comeOblivious, to the code of chivalry.Voids in his desire were unveiled, asLove taught him; death with dignity.In desire to be and in wanting to liveHis wretched soul began to purge,As he wept at the beauty of nightHe commenced to sing his own dirge,Then born again of fire; ascended,Like Phoenix must burn to emerge.