132 Quotes About Chivalry

Gentleman: An imaginary creature found in Jane Austen novels.

A gentleman is contemplative in that he never ceases to refine his sense of reality.

Many of those who elected to remain might have escaped. 'Chivalry' is a mild appellation for their conduct. Some of the vaunted knights of old were desperate cowards by comparison. A fight in the open field, or jousting in the tournament, did not call out the manhood in a man as did the waiting till the great ship took the final plunge, in the knowledge that the seas round about were covered with loving and yearning witnesses whose own salvation was not assured.

It was a symposium of horror and heroism, the like of which has not been known in the civilized world since man established his dominion over the sea.

Still, taking the good with the bad, chivalry, like Christianity, had a healthy effect upon Western man.

It is remarkable that chivalry, no matter how actual or merely aspirational it was in its own day, appeared when it did—that it appeared at all!

It was not enough for knights simply to love and fight well; they needed to sacrifice everything for the highest ideals, such as a Grail quest.

The fields have eyes, and the woods have ears.

chivalry demands that a man respect a woman’s wishes. Needless to say, this does not mean that a compleat gentleman is his lady’s lackey.