Edmund Spenser Quotes

Chivalry is dead.

It even has the same phraseology as the English orders of knighthood, companions and this sort of thing.

A very perfect gentle knight.

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

It is much easier to be a hero than a gentleman.

It is very rare to find ground which produces nothing; if it is not covered with flowers, with fruit trees and grains, it produces briers and pines. It is the same with man; if he is not virtuous, he becomes vicious.

Egotistical people are not pretty. We all know that, I'm sure everybody knows an egotistical person someplace.

That he is gentil that doth gentil dedis.

Mr. Collins is a conceited, pompous, narrow-minded, silly man; you know he is, as well as I do; and you must feel, as well as I do, that the woman who married him cannot have a proper way of thinking.

And at thirty-eight a brilliant exponent of arms and a knight of the great fighting and religious Order of St John, the Chevalier de Villegagnon had absolutely no use for common sense himself, but respected it in the laity.

Too many people in Washington are full of themselves, among other things that they are full of.

The essence of true nobility is neglect of self. Let the thought of self pass in, and the beauty of a great action is gone, like the bloom from a soiled flower.

Once again I feel beneath my heels the ribs of Rocinante. Once more, I'm on the road with my shield on my arm.

It is the stain and disgrace of the age to envy virtue, and to be anxious to crush the very flower of dignity.

Do you see over yonder, friend Sancho, thirty or forty hulking giants? I intend to do battle with them and slay them.

Well I'm the Prince and I'm sort of slaying a dragon - which is something I've never done before, obviously.

The foul slime stands for the sloth and vice of man, the decay of humanity; the fragrant flower that springs from it, for the purity and courage which are immortal.

Glory fills the world with virtue, and, like a beneficent sun, covers the whole earth with flowers and with fruits.

There is no doubt that in exchanging a self-centered for a selfless life we gain enormously in self-esteem. The vanity of the selfless, even those who practice utmost humility, is boundless.

You have to be a man before you can be a gentleman.

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.

In times gone by there lived a Count of Ponthieu, who loved chivalry and the pleasures of the world beyond measure, and moreover was a stout knight and a gallant gentleman

The only amarantine flower on earth Is virtue.