Quotes: Chivalry

The age of chivalry has gone; the age of humanity has come.

Justice is better than chivalry if we cannot have both.

There is another side to chivalry. If it dispenses leniency, it may with equal justification invoke control.

But the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophisters, economists, and calculators has succeeded; and the glory of Europe is extinguished forever.

The institution of chivalry forms one of the most remarkable features in the history of the Middle Ages.

The sword was a very elegant weapon in the days of the samurai. You had honor and chivalry much like the knights, and yet it was a gruesome and horrific weapon.

The age of chivalry is past. Bores have succeeded to dragons.

Cervantes smiled Spain’s chivalry away; A single laugh demolished the right arm Of his country.

In our fathers’ time nothing was read but books of feigned chivalry, wherein a man by reading should be led to none other end, but only to manslaughter and bawdry.

The motto of chivalry is also the motto of wisdom; to serve all, but love only one.