“ Justice is better than chivalry if we cannot have both. ”
- Alice Stone Blackwell- Copy
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“ Chivalry is a poor substitute for justice, if one cannot have both. Chivalry is something like the icing on the cake, sweet but not nourishing. ”
- Nellie McClung- Copy
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“ The motto of chivalry is also the motto of wisdom; to serve all, but love only one. ”
- Honore de Balzac- Copy
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“ It requires nothing less than a chivalric feeling to sustain a conversation with a lady. ”
- Henry David Thoreau- Copy
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“ The age of chivalry is past. Bores have succeeded to dragons. ”
- Benjamin Disraeli- Copy
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“ The odious and disgusting aristocracy of wealth is built upon the ruins of all that is good in chivalry or republicanism; and luxury is the forerunner of a barbarism scarcely capable of cure. ”
- Percy Bysshe Shelley- Copy
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“ 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- Copy
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“ There is another side to chivalry. If it dispenses leniency, it may with equal justification invoke control. ”
- Freda Adler- Copy
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