#chivalry

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

— Charles Dickens

#bores #chivalry #dragons #past #succeeded

You think my first instinct is to protect you. Because you're small, or a girl, or a Stiff. But you're wrong." He leans his face close to mine and wraps his fingers around my chin. His hand smells like metal. When was the last time he held a gun, or a knife? My skin tingles at the point of contact, like he's transmitting electricity through his skin. "My first instinct is to push you until you break, just to see how hard I have to press." he says, his fingers squeezing at the word break. My body tenses at the edge in his voice, so I am coiled as tight as a spring, and I forget to breathe. His dark eyes lifting to mine, he adds, "But I resist it." "Why..." I swallow hard. "Why is that your first instinct?" "Fear doesn't shut you down; it wakes you up. I've seen it. It's fascinating." He releases me but doesn't pull away, his hand grazing my jaw, my neck. "Sometimes I just want to see it again. Want to see you awake. ↗

— Veronica Roth

#time

In our fathers' time nothing was read but books of feigned chivalry, wherein a man by reading should be led to none other end, but only to manslaughter and bawdry. ↗

— Roger Ascham

#chivalry #end #fathers #led #man

The old interests of aristocracy - the romance of action, the exalted passions of chivalry and war - faded into the background, and their place was taken by the refined and intimate pursuits of peace and civilization. ↗

— Lytton Strachey

#aristocracy #background #chivalry #civilization #exalted

I stepped forward. Call me old-fashioned, but I wanted to keep his focus on me and not Annabeth. I think it’s polite for a guy to protect his girlfriend from instant incineration. ↗

— Rick Riordan

#humor #humor

A gentleman is someone who does not what he wants to do, but what he should do. ↗

— Haruki Murakami

#gentleman #gentlemen #inspirational #manners #motivational

As a Texan, I say ma'm and sir to my age contemporaries and open doors for anyone that I can. This goes for men, too, though it is appreciated when they beat me to it and disappointing when they don't. ↗

— Tiffany Madison

#chivalry #kindness #manners #men #men-and-women

The anarch sticks to facts, not ideas. He suffers not for facts but because of them, and usually through his own fault, as in a traffic accident. Certainly, there are unforeseeable things – maltreatments. However, I believe I have attained a certain degree of self-distancing that allows me to regard this as an accident. ↗

— Ernst Jünger

#chivalry #ernst-jünger #martyrdom #patriotism #self-distancing

In self-defense and in defense of the innocent, cowardice is the only sin. ↗

— Dean Koontz

#cowardice #sin #innocence

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

— Freda Adler

#chivalry #control #dispenses #equal #invoke