Chivalry Quotes

The age of chivalry is never past, so long as there is a wrong left unredressed on earth, or a man or woman left to say, I will redress that wrong, or spend my life in the attempt. Charles Kingsley

But the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophisters, economists, and calculators has succeeded; and the glory of Europe is extinguished forever. Edmund Burke

Chivalry is the most delicate form of contempt. Albert Guerard

Though the practice of chivalry fell even more sadly short of its theoretic standard than practice generally falls below theory, it remains one of the most precious monuments of the moral history of our race… John Stuart Mill

The age of chivalry is past. Bores have succeeded to dragons. Benjamin Disraeli

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

There is a deep, natural obligation in men who are really men to be chivalrous to any woman in a way they need not be chivalrous to one another. Laurens van der Post