Quotes about Chivalry
Just the other day in the Underground I enjoyed the pleasure of offering my seat to three ladies.
- GK Chesterton
When a chivalrous man makes an oath, he is faithful to it, and when he attains power, he spares his enemy.
- Muhammad Ali
Lo! I must tell a tale of chivalry;
- John Keats
The whole of heraldry and of chivalry is in courtesy. A man of fine manners shall pronounce your name with all the ornament that titles of nobility could ever add.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Once a gentleman, and always a gentleman.
- Charles Dickens
If I'm on a bus and an old lady gets on, I get up.
- Phil Taylor
Valour is nobleness of the mind.
- Anonymous
I quite like it when I'm on the Tube and people offer me their seat. Sometimes I take it. The other day I was offered a seat by a pregnant lady. I thought, 'That's going a bit far.'
- Ian Mckellen
I've twice run against women opponents, and it's a very different kind of approach. For those of us who have some chivalry left, there's a level of respect... You treat some things as a special treasure; you treat other things as common.
- Mike Huckabee
A true gentlemen is one who is never unintentionally rude.
- Oscar Wilde
It was men who stopped slavery. It was men who ran up the stairs in the Twin Towers to rescue people. It was men who gave up their seats on the lifeboats of the Titanic. Men are made to take risks and live passionately on behalf of others.
- John Eldredge
Once a gentleman, and always a gentleman.
- Charles Dickens