Quotes with chivalry

  • The world's male chivalry has perished out, but women are knights-errant to the last; and, if Cervantes had been greater still, he had made his Don a Donna.

Quotes 1 till 8 of 8.

  • Edmund Burke I thought ten thousand swords must have leaped from their scabbards to avenge even a look that threatened her with insult. But the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophists, economists and calculators has succeeded; and the glory of Europe is gone forever.
    Edmund Burke
    English politician and philosopher (1729 - 1797)
    - +
     0
  • Alice Stone Blackwell Justice is better than chivalry if we cannot have both.
    - +
     0
  • Charles Sumner The age of chivalry has gone; the age of humanity has come.
    Charles Sumner
    American politician and U.S. Senator (1811 - 1874)
    - +
     0
  • Benjamin Disraeli The age of chivalry is past. Bores have succeeded to dragons.
    Benjamin Disraeli
    English statesman and writer (1804 - 1881)
    - +
     0
  • Honoré de Balzac The motto of chivalry is also the motto of wisdom; to serve all, but love only one.
    Honoré de Balzac
    French writer (1799 - 1850)
    - +
     0
  • Percy Bysshe Shelley The odious and disgusting aristocracy of wealth is built upon the ruins of all that is good in chivalry or republicanism; and luxury is the forerunner of a barbarism scarcely capable of cure.
    Percy Bysshe Shelley
    English poet (1792 - 1822)
    - +
     0
  • Elizabeth Barrett Browning The world's male chivalry has perished out, but women are knights-errant to the last; and, if Cervantes had been greater still, he had made his Don a Donna.
    Elizabeth Barrett Browning
    English poet (1806 - 1861)
    - +
     0
  • Freda Adler There is another side to chivalry. If it dispenses leniency, it may with equal justification invoke control.
    Freda Adler
    American criminologist and educator (1934 - )
    - +
     0
All chivalry famous quotes and sayings you will always find on greatest-quotations.com