Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous
old chivalry quotes, chivalry sayings, and chivalry proverbs, collected over the years from a variety
of sources.
The age of chivalry is past. Bores have succeeded to dragons.Charles Dickens
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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 undressed on earth.Charles Kingsley
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The motto of chivalry is also the motto of wisdom; to serve all, but love only one.Honoré de Balzac
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We direct the destinies of a mighty continent. Our resources are unlimited: our means unbounded. If we be true to ourselves, the glory of other nations, in comparison to ours, shall resemble but a tale from the days of chivalry.John Tyler
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There is another side to chivalry. If it dispenses leniency, it may with equal justification invoke control.Freda Adler
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The institution of chivalry forms one of the most remarkable features in the history of the Middle Ages.Horatio Alger
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Chivalry is one of the great civilizing forces, taming men and introducing social graces and nuance to what would otherwise be a brutish social world.Heather Mac Donald
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Chivalry is dead.Sienna Miller
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Chivalry isn't dead. It's just no longer gender-based.Letitia Baldrige
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We take so many of our freedoms for granted nowadays - I can travel where I like, I can do any job I want - but I think chivalry has been lost a little bit.Michelle Dockery
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The word Chivalry is derived from the French cheval, a horse.Thomas Bulfinch
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The age of chivalry has gone; the age of humanity has come.
Charles Summer
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To risk life to save a smile on a face of a woman or a child is the secret of chivalry.Dejan Stojanovic
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“What if custom is wrong? demanded the part of her that believed in the code of chivalry. A knight must set things right.”Tamora Fierce
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Lo! I must tell a tale of chivalry , for large white plumes are dancing in mine eye.John Keats
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Health to grantas chivalry, wisely finding day by day.Charles Kingsley
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And corresponded not with chivalry, that he a woman should desire to kill.Ludovico Ariosto
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Where the banners of chivalry heavily swing over the pinnacled tomb of the warrior king.Richard Harris Barham
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That fading chivalry displays no more her pomp and stately tournaments of yore!William Lisle Bowles
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I said should be a tale of gone-by chivalry. My task is done , the tale is told.Letitia Elizabeth London
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The long year's meed and due, the bud homage grafted on chivalry.Edith Nesbitt
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And touched my thoughts with beauty, while the poor world, wise with bitter guile outlived its chivalry.Agnes Louise Storrie
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Where in the days of chivalry, each knight and baron brave in military pride shone in the brass and burning steel of war.Hugh Henry Brackenridge
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And silk octavos bound in brown and red, that tales of love and chivalry unfold.Zora Bernice May Cross
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Give his ashes never a sigh one of many who perished not in vain as a type of chivalry.Adam Lindsay Gordon
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Die, to die for you foremost in rivalry heroes to dig my grave that were true chivalry.Wilfrid Scawen Blunt
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Thou art avenged by the bow chivalry name of romance thou art henceforth but a name weapon that none can withstand.Francis Turner Palgrave
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He never heard of chivalry he longs for heroic times.Joyce Kilmer
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The craven soul who feared to die with all the glow of chivalry and old heroic fire.William Schwenk Gilbert
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The restless, deep, dividing sea that flows and foams from shore to shore calls to its sunburned chivalry push out, set sail, explore!Henry Van Dyke
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They used to call it chivalry but now they calls it dirt.Clarence Michael James Stanislaus Dennis
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You worship decorations you believe that chivalry redeems the war's disgrace.Siegrried Sassoon
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I thought to do a deed of chivalry an act of worth which happy in her sight who was my mistress should recorded be.William Schwenk Gilbert
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They who were brave to act and rich enough their action to forget, who having filled their day with chivalry.Emma Lazarus
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O chivalry of hope with the cloudy host of the infidel and the holy earth reclaim.Katharine Lee Bates
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The distant siren-song of the green island in the eastern sea is not the lay for this new chivalry.Emma Lazarus
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A gentleman is someone who does not what he wants to do, but what he should do.Haruki Murakami
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More than a code of manners in war and love, Chivalry was a moral system, governing the whole of noble life.Barbara Tuchman
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He who defends with love will be secure. Heaven will save him, and protect him with love.Lao Tzu
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Chivalry is the most delicate form of contempt.Albert Guerard
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Every man I meet wants to protect me. I can't figure out what from.Mae West
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Chivalry is not just a fancy word with a neat meaning; it's a way of life.Vaughn Ripley
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The only thing I want more than you, is to do right by you.Angela N. Blount