“Ladies, never underestimate the value of thanking any man for being a "true gentleman," when he opens a door for you. At the very least, it will evoke either his thanks or a smile, and it cost you no loss.”
Rebekah Cyphers
“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
“The motto of chivalry is also the motto of wisdom; to serve all, but love only one.”
Honore de Balzac
“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 unredressed on earth.”
Charles Kingsley
“Chivalry!---why, maiden, she is the nurse of pure and high affection---the stay of the oppressed, the redresser of grievances, the curb of the power of the tyrant ---Nobility were but an empty name without her, and liberty finds the best protection in her lance and her sword.”
Sir Walter Scott
“The age of chivalry has gone; the age of humanity has come.”
Charles Sumner
“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, as a remarkable instance of a concerted and organized attempt by a most disorganized and distracted society, to raise up and carry into practice a moral ideal greatly in advance of its social condition and institutions; so much so as to have been completely frustrated in the main object, yet never entirely inefficacious, and which has left a most sensible, and for the most part a highly valuable impress on the ideas and feelings of all subsequent times.”
John Stuart Mill
