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Justice is better than chivalry if we cannot have both.

~Alice Stone Blackwell

Topics: Better Both Cannot Chivalry Justice Than We Cannot

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If you're walking with your lady on the sidewalk, I still like to see a man walking street-side, to protect the lady from traffic. I grew up with that, and I hate to see something like that get lost. I still like to see that a man opens the door. I like those touches of chivalry that are fast disappearing.

~Betty White

Topics: Chivalry Disappearing Door Fast Get Grew Hate Lady Like Lost Man Opens Protect See Sidewalk Something Still Those Traffic Up Walking You Your

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

~Charles Dickens

Topics: Age Bores Chivalry Dragons Past Succeeded

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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

Topics: Age Chivalry Dead Earth Left Long Never Past Romance Say Some Spirit Wrong

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

~Charles Sumner

Topics: Age Chivalry Come Gone Humanity

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We take so many of our freedoms for granted nowadays - I can travel where I like, I can have a baby when I like, I can do any job I want - but I do think chivalry has been lost a little bit.

~Dan Stevens

Topics: Any Baby Been Bit Chivalry Freedoms Granted Job Like Little Little Bit Lost Many Nowadays Our Take Think Travel Want Where I Can

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I don't know where my romanticism comes from. My mom and dad would read to me a lot. 'Treasure Island,' 'Robinson Crusoe,' tales of chivalry and knights, things like that. Those are the stories I loved growing up.

~Daniel Radcliffe

Topics: Chivalry Dad Growing Growing Up Island Knights Know Like Lot Loved Me Mom Mom And Dad Read Robinson Romanticism Stories Tales Things Those Treasure Up Where Would

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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.

~Dustin Diamond

Topics: Chivalry Days Elegant Had Honor Horrific Knights Like Much Samurai Sword Very Weapon You

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

~Edmund Burke

Topics: Age Chivalry Economists Europe Forever Glory Gone Succeeded

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

~Freda Adler

Topics: Another Chivalry Control Dispense Equal Invoke Justification May Side

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