chivalry quotes

The tradition of baseball always has been agreeably free of chivalry. The rule is 'Do anything you can get away with'.

- (Matthew) Heywood Campbell Broun
Quoted in Colin  Jarman The Guinness Dictionary of Sports Quotations (1990).

The age of chivalry isgone.That of sophisters, economists, and calculators, has succeeded; and the glory of Europe is extinguished for ever.

- Edmund Burke
  Reflections on the Revolution in France.

There was a sound of revelry by night, And Belgium's capital had gathered then Her beauty and her chivalry, and bright Childe Harold's Pilgrimage Foul as their soil, and frigid as their snows. The lamps that shone o'er fair women and brave men; A thousand hearts beat happily; and when Music arose with its voluptuous swell, Soft eyes looked love to eyes which spake again, And all went merryas a marriage bell; But hush! hark! a deep sound strikes like a rising knell!

-Rochdale
^18  Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, canto 3, stanza 21.

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-William Caxton
  Thomas Malory Le Morte D'Arthur, prologue.

'The age of chivalry is past,'said May Dacre.'Bores have succeeded to dragons.'

- Benjamin, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield Disraeli
TheYoung Duke, bk.2, ch.5.

Herein may be seen noble chyvalrye, curtosye, humanyte  , frendlynesse, hardynesse, love, frendshyp, cowardyse, murdre, hate, vertue, and synne.

- SirThomas   d.1471 Malory
c.1485  Morte d'Arthur, Caxton's preface.

Iadmit it ismore funto puntthanto be punted, and that a desire to have all the fun is nine-tenths of the law of chivalry.

- Dorothy L(eigh) Sayers
  Gaudy Night, ch.14.

The way was long, the wind was cold, The Minstrel was infirm and old; His withered cheek, and tresses grey, Seemed to have known a better day; The harp, his sole remaining joy, Was carried byan orphan boy, The last of all the Bards was he, Who sung of Border chivalry.

- Sir Walter Scott
  The Lay of the Last Minstrel, introduction.

Go little book, thy self present, As child whose parent is unkent: To him that is the president Of noblesse and of chivalry, And if that Envy bark at thee, As sure it will, for succour flee.

- Edmund Spenser
  The Shepherd's Calendar,'To His Book'.