132 Quotes About Chivalry

Chivalry is first and foremost the worldview of fighting men.

Coming close to death is a humbling experience.

A compleat gentleman is a man who tries to do what is right and honorable in any given situation. He seeks harmony with the laws of God, or nature, and of man.

The compleat gentleman is not a perfect man.

A gentleman takes a woman on her own terms, and in doing so he puts the lie to ideological drivel about oppression.

...When the clarion call is sounded,I will ride out and fight in the name of liege and Lady,Whilst I draw breath the lands bequeathedunto me will remain untainted by evil.Honour is all. Chivalry is all...

Kaladin stared outward at the blue sky. 'I have to know,' he whispered. 'Know?''You asked why I protect Dalinar. I have to know if he really is what he seems, Syl. I have to know if one of them lives up to his reputation. That will tell me-''Tell you? Tell you what?''If honor is dead,' Kaladin whispered. 'He is,' Syl said. 'But he lives on in men. And in me.

... [T]he pure light of chivalry... distinguishes the noble from the base, the gentle knight from the churl and the savage;... rates our life far, far beneath the pitch of our honour, raises us victorious over pain, toil, and suffering, and teaches us to fear no evil but disgrace.

... for a man may cover his blemish, but unbind it he cannot, for where once 'tis applied, thence part will it never.