Gallant Quotes
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What a cruel thing is war; to separate and destroy families and friends, and mar the purest joys and happiness God has granted us in this world; to fill our hearts with hatred instead of love for our neighbours, and to devastate the fair face of this beautiful world! I pray that, on this day when only peace and good-will are preached to mankind, better thoughts may fill the hearts of our enemies and turn them to peace. ... My heart bleeds at the death of every one of our gallant men.
robert e. lee— Letter to his wife on Christmas Day, two weeks after the Battle of Fredericksburg (25 December 1862)
A wet sheet and a flowing sea, A wind that follows fast And fills the white and rustling sails, And bends the gallant mast! And bends the gallant mast, my boys, While, like the eagle free, Away the good ship flies, and leaves Old England in the lee.
Allan Cunningham— Allan Cunningham, Songs of Scotland, A Wet Sheet and a Flowing Sea.
A wet sheet and a flowing sea,A wind that follows fast,And fills the white and rustling sail,And bends the gallant mast.And bends the gallant mast, my boys,While like the eagle freeAway the good ship flies, and leavesOld England on the lee.
Allan Cunningham— "A Wet Sheet and a Flowing Sea"; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
I drew this gallant head of war, And cull'd these fiery spirits from the world, To outlook conquest and to win renown Even in the jaws of danger and of death.
— Act V, scene 2, line 113.
Devil was more generous than Adam, That never laid the fault upon his madam But like a gallant and heroic self, Took freely all the crime upon Himself.
— In p.12 (All Church Humour)
Promiscuous reading is necessary to the constituting of human nature. The attempt to keep out evil doctrine by licensing is like the exploit of that gallant man who thought to keep out the crows by shutting the park gate.
john milton— 1644 Areopagitica: a speech for the liberty of unlicensed printing.
To curle on the ice, does greatly please, Being a manly Scottish exercise; It clears the Brains, stirs up the Native Heat, And gives a gallant appetite for Meat.
— 1715 Quoted in Colin Jarman The Guinness Dictionary of Sports Quotations (1990).
My soul's a trampled duelling ground where Sade, the gallant marquis, fences for his life against the invulnerable retrograde Masoch, his shade, more constant than a wife.
Edgell Rickword— 1928 'Chronique Scandaleuse'.
The epitaph on the Kennedyadministration became Camelota magic moment in American history, when gallant men danced with beautiful women, when great deeds were done, when artists, writers and poets met at the White House and the barbarians beyond the walls were held back.
Theodore H(arold) White— 1978 In Search of History.
I love my gallant captain with all my heart and soul and might, and never will desert him, while God lets us be together. Oh, Mother, I never knew how much like heaven this world could be, when two people love and live for one another!
Louisa May Alcott— Amy, in Ch. 42 : All Alone
Each year his mighty armies marched forth in gallant show,Their enemies were targets, their bullets they were tow.
pierre-jean de béranger— Le Roi d'Yvetot. Translation by Thackeray, The King of Brentford; reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 725.
Soon round us spread the hills and dales,Where GEOFFREY spun his magic tales,And call'd them history. The landWhence ARTHUR sprung, and all his bandOf gallant knights. Sire of romance,Who led the fancy's mazy dance,Thy tales shall please, thy name still be,When Time forgets my verse and me.
robert bloomfield— Book I
Before 1914 it was beauty that counted in cricket - elegance of strokes, stylishness of bowling action, quixotry in captaincy. The gallant gesture was just as important as the mammoth score, the picturesque as the efficient.
— Cricket Heritage (1948) [1]
Shaw's relations with women have always been gallant, coy even. The number he has surrendered to physically have been few – perhaps not half a dozen in all – the first man to have cut a path through the theatre and left it strewn with virgins.
frank harris— Bernard Shaw (1931) p. 191.
Thanks to our brave allies: you gallant Russian bear, you British everywhere.
bob hope— Introduction to his World War II performances.
— Obituary, The Economist, August 2, 2003
Forth we went, a gallant band—Youth, Love, Gold and Pleasure.
mark lemon— Last Song, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
The Puerto Ricans forming the ranks of the gallant 65th Infantry on the battlefields of Korea … are writing a brilliant record of achievement in battle and I am proud indeed to have them in this command. I wish that we might have many more like them.
Douglas MacArthur— Quoted on 12 February 1951 in Tokyo
Is this that haughty gallant, gay Lothario?
nicholas rowe— Act v, scene 1.
Rise! ye gallant youth of Britain,Gather to your country's call,On your hearts her name is written,Rise to help her, one and all!
martin farquhar tupper— Rule, Britannia!, l. 1-4.
Oh, the gallant fisher's life!It is the best of any;'T is full of pleasure, void of strife,And 't is beloved by many.
Izaak Walton— John Chalkhill, The Angler; in 1683, the year in which he died, Walton prefixed a preface to a work edited by him: "Thealma and Clearchus, a Pastoral History, in smooth and easy verse; written long since by John Chalkhill Esq., an acquaintant and friend of Edmund Spenser." There is some speculation that Chalkhill was merely a pseudonym under which Walton wrote certain of his poems. See Thomas Zouch, Life of Walton (1830), p. 57: "Chalkhill,—a name unappropriated, a verbal phantom, a shadow of a shade. Chalkhill is no other than our old piscatory friend incognito".
Practically all we know is that thousands of native Haitians have been killed by American Marines, and that many of our own gallant men have sacrificed their lives at the behest of an Executive department in order to establish laws drafted by the Assistant Secretary of the Navy. ... I will not empower an Assistant Secretary of the Navy to draft a constitution for helpless neighbors in the West Indies and jam it down their throats at the point of bayonets borne by US Marines.
warren g. harding— Speech during Warren Harding's 1920 presidental campaign, critizing Woodrow Wilson's Haitian policies; quoted in Democracy at the Point of Bayonets (1999) by Mark Penceny, p. 2. (The Assistant Secretary of the Navy he refers to is Franklin Roosevelt, who was the Democratic vice-presidential candidate in 1920.)
Gaily bedight, A gallant knight, In sunshine and in shadow, Had journeyed long, Singing a song, In search of Eldorado.
edgar allan poe— "Eldorado", st. 1 (1849).
"Once more, my gallant boys!" he cried: "Three times! you know the fable, (I'll make it thirty," muttered he, "But I will lay the cable!")
john godfrey saxe— "How Cyrus Laid the Cable".
Is this that haughty gallant, gay Lothario?
— Act v, scene 1.
O! the gallant fisher's life, It is the best of any: 'Tis full of pleasure, void of strife, And 'tis beloved by many. Other joys Are but toys; Only this, Lawful is: For our skill Breeds no ill, But content and pleasure.
— Chapter XVI. (The Compleat Angler (1653-55))
Upon the gale she stoop'd her side, And bounded o'er the swelling tide, As she were dancing home; The merry seamen laugh'd to see Their gallant ship so lustily Furrow the green sea-foam.
walter scott— Walter Scott, Marmion (1808), Canto II, Stanza 1.
She comes majestic with her swelling sails, The gallant Ship: along her watery way, Homeward she drives before the favouring gales; Now flirting at their length the streamers play, And now they ripple with the ruffling breeze.
Robert Southey— Robert Southey, Sonnet XIX. (Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations)
Each year his mighty armies marched forth in gallant show, Their enemies were targets, their bullets they were tow.
pierre-jean de béranger— Le Roi d'Yvetot. Translation by Thackeray, The King of Brentford.
A wet sheet and a flowing sea, A wind that follows fast, And fills the white and rustling sail, And bends the gallant mast.
Allan Cunningham— A Wet Sheet and a Flowing Sea, stanza 1 (1825)
