Quotes with chivalry

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• 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)
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• Justice is better than chivalry if we cannot have both.

  Alice Stone Blackwell
   
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• The age of chivalry has gone; the age of humanity has come.

  Charles Sumner
  American politician and U.S. Senator (1811 - 1874)
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• The age of chivalry is past. Bores have succeeded to dragons.

  Benjamin Disraeli
  English statesman and writer (1804 - 1881)
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• The motto of chivalry is also the motto of wisdom; to serve all, but love only one.

  Honoré de Balzac
  French writer (1799 - 1850)
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• 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)
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• 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)
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• There is another side to chivalry. If it dispenses leniency, it may with equal justification invoke control.

  Freda Adler
  American criminologist and educator (1934 - )
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Subjects in these quotes:

• knights-errant
• justification
• disgusting
• forerunner
• barbarism
• cervantes

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