Rudy Vallee Quotes

The institution of chivalry forms one of the most remarkable features in the history of the Middle Ages.

The word Chivalry is derived from the French cheval, a horse.

I've always treated women well.

A knight errant who turns mad for a reason deserves neither merit nor thanks. The thing is to do it without cause

For me chivalry isn't dead; it's an involuntary reflex.

A knight whose heart is set upon the Way, but who is ashamed of wearing shabby clothes and eating coarse food, is not worth calling into counsel.

I truly love our Code of Chivalry. We are taught that noblemen must take everything and say nothing. Noblemen must stand alone. Well, we're men, and men aren't born to stand alone.

That he is gentil that doth gentil dedis.

Chivalry!---why, maiden, she is the nurse of pure and high affection---the stay of the oppressed, the redresser of grievances, the curb of the power of the tyrant ---Nobility were but an empty name without her, and liberty finds the best protection in her lance and her sword.

I do not insist," answered Don Quixote, "that this is a full adventure, but it is the beginning of one, for this is the way adventures begin.

I think that - apart from the fields of science and medicine - we live in an age of decline. Look at the world. There is decline in morals, ideals, manners, respect, truthfulness: just about everything, in fact.

Men and boys, we show our manhood through the way we treat our women. Our wives, our sisters, our mothers.

Even a bad shot is dignified when he accepts a duel.

We're in a decaying culture now. Naturally, the young people in the culture are going to feel themselves to be products of the decay.

We were talking about the prince,' Sansa said, her voice soft as a kiss. Arya knew which prince she meant: Joffrey, of course. The tall, handsome one. Sansa got to sit with him at the feast. Arya had to sit with the little fat one. Naturally.

Knighthood lies above eternity; it doesn’t live off fame, but rather deeds.

We said that a single injustice, a single crime, a single illegality, particularly if it is officially recorded, confirmed, a single wrong to humanity, a single wrong to justice and to right, particularly if it is universally, legally, nationally, commodiously accepted, that a single crime shatters and is sufficient to shatter the whole social pact, the whole social contract, that a single legal crime, a single dishonorable act will bring about the loss of ones honor, the dishonor of a whole people. It is a touch of gangrene that corrupts the entire body.

Approved valor is made precious by natural courtesy.

This knight was indeed a valiant gentleman; but not a little given to romance, when he spake of himself.

The rapid, sweeping deterioration of values is characterized by a preoccupation-even an obsession-with the procreative act. Abstinence before marriage and fidelity within it are openly scoffed at-marriage and parenthood ridiculed as burdensome, unnecessary. Modesty, a virtue of a refined individual or society, is all but gone.

We approach a condition in which we shall be amoral without the capacity to perceive it and degraded without the means to measure our descent.

Since it is so likely that (children) will meet cruel enemies, let them at least have heard of brave knights and heroic courage. Otherwise you are making their destiny not brighter but darker.