I had a theoretical reverence and homage for beauty, elegance, gallantry, fascination but had I met those qualities incarnate in masculine shape, I should have known instinctively that they had nor could have sympathy with anything in me...
Quotes about gallantry (13 Quotes)
Gallantry to women the sure road to their favor is nothing but the appearance of extreme devotion to all their wants and wishes, a delight in their satisfaction, and a confidence in yourself as being able to contribute toward it.
What men call gallantry, and gods adultery, Is much more common where the climate's sultry.
Frenchmen have an unlimited capacity for gallantry and indulge it on every occasion.
I am delighted that Her Majesty has seen fit to mark the outstanding gallantry, professionalism and commitment of so many service personnel operating in difficult and challenging environments. I am immensely proud of their achievements and congratulate them all.
She's handled herself with enormous gallantry, ... She must have been through a lot of private pain, but she's put her best foot forward and she's tried to start a new life.
Beautiful and rich is an old friendship, Grateful to the touch as ancient ivory, Smooth as aged wine, or sheen of tapestry Where light has lingered, intimate and long. Full of tears and warm is an old friendship That asks no longer deeds of gallantry, Or any deed at all save that the friend shall be Alive and breathing somewhere, like a song.
Let's drink to the spirit of gallantry and courage that made a strange Heaven out of unbelievable Hell, and let's drink to the hope that one day this country of ours, which we love so much, will find dignity and greatness and peace again.
Conscience has no more to do with gallantry than it has with politics.
A high station in life is earned by the gallantry with which appalling experiences are survived with grace.
Being asked by a young nobleman, what was become of the gallantry and military spirit of the old English nobility, (Johnson) replied, Why, my Lord, I'll tell you what is become of it it is gone into the city to look for a fortune
I must learn to walk this long unlovely wintry way, looking for spectacles, shunning the cruel looking-glass, laughing at my clumsiness before others mistakenly condole, not expecting gallantry yet disappointed to receive none, apprehending every ache of shaft of pain, alive to blinding flashes of mortality, unarmed, totally vulnerable.
There was a land of Cavaliers and Cotton Fields called the Old South. Here in this pretty world, Gallantry took its last bow. Here was the last ever to be seen of Knights and their Ladies Fair, of Master and of Slave. Look for it only in books, for it is no more than a dream remembered, a Civilization gone with the wind....