Gallantry Quotes

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Seneca
“He who is brave is free”
Seneca

Ally Carter
“And Zach was taking his jacket off and draping it around my shoulders, which (according to Liz, who double checked with Macey) is the single-sexiest thing a guy can do.”
Ally Carter, Don't Judge a Girl by Her Cover

J.R.R. Tolkien
“But I am the real Strider, fortunately. I am Aragorn son of Arathorn; and if by life or death I can save you, I will.”
J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

Markus Zusak
“Personally, I quite like that. Such stupid gallantry.
Yes. I like that a lot.”
Markus Zusak, The Book Thief

Richelle E. Goodrich
“The sun, rising and setting in splendid colors, never grows tired of its admirers―much like a lady, aglow with grace, never grows tired of chivalrous acts or pretty flowers.”
Richelle E. Goodrich, Making Wishes: Quotes, Thoughts, & a Little Poetry for Every Day of the Year

George R.R. Martin
“Is that gallantry I smell, or just stupidity? The two scents are much alike, as I recall.”
George R.R. Martin, A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms

Michael Shaara
“Chamberlain raised his saber, let loose the shout that was the greatest sound he could make, boiling the yell up from his chest: Fix bayonets! Charge! Fix bayonets! Charge! Fix bayonets! Charge! He leaped down from the boulder, still screaming, his voice beginning to to crack and give, and all around him his men were roaring animal screams, and he saw the whole Regiment rising and pouring over the wall and beginning to bound down through the dark bushes, over the dead and dying wounded, hats coming off, hair flying, mouths making sounds, one man firing as he ran, the last bullet, last round.”
Michael Shaara, The Killer Angels

Dorothy Dunnett
“I don't like this war. I don't like the cold-blooded scheming at the beginning and the carnage at the end and the grumbling and the jealousies and the pettishness in the middle. I hate the lack of gallantry and grace; the self-seeking; the destruction of valuable people and things. I believe in danger and endeavor as a form of tempering but I reject it if this is the only shape it can take.”
Dorothy Dunnett, The Game of Kings

Abhijit Naskar
“Gallantry doesn’t mean sleeping with people, gallantry means standing by the helpless, the discriminated, the downtrodden and the forgotten, even if it means going against an entire army.”
Abhijit Naskar, Aşkanjali: The Sufi Sermon

Toba Beta
“Gallantry is gentleman's quality.”
Toba Beta, Betelgeuse Incident: Insiden Bait Al-Jauza

Donald McCaig
“Gardeners impose human values on disorderly nature, knowing full well that nature must win in the end. Gardening is gentle gallantry. - Rosemary Butler”
Donald McCaig, Rhett Butler's People

Baltasar Gracián
“Pride yourself on the fact that if gallantry, generosity, and fidelity disappeared from the world, they could be found in you.”
Baltasar Gracián, The Art of Worldly Wisdom: A Pocket Oracle

Andrew Levkoff
“When I asked him how this cramping might affect his sword arm, he assured me it was only the narrow grip of the writing instruments that troubled him.
“If we fought with pens,” he said, “I would be forced to fall upon mine.”
Andrew Levkoff, A Mixture of Madness

Toba Beta
“Gallantry emits respect.”
Toba Beta, My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut

“I see in the papers that the singer, Frank Ifield, popular in the fifties, is planning a comeback. I remember reviewing his debut at the Palladium under the insane misapprehension that he was blind. (I had him confused with a blind vocalist who bore a similar name.) I watched agape with admiration while he strolled around the stage with every appearance of knowing where he was going, and I burst into spontaneous applause as he strode down to within a foot of the orchestra pit without the least sign of fear. By the end of his act I was misty with tears at the thought of his courage. I often wonder what he thought when he read the review in which I congratulated him on the gallantry with which he had overcome the handicap of sightlessness.”
Kenneth Tynan, The Diaries of Kenneth Tynan

Louis L'Amour
“A lady should be allowed to choose her comp'ny, an' should be treated like a lady until she shows she prefers different.”
Louis L'Amour

Bryn  Hammond
“The gallantry was the women's. ... The woman's chivalry in such circumstances is obviously expected.”
Bryn Hammond, Against Walls

Brad Miner
“Societal civility is the extension and expansion of individual gallantry: it’s all about—or ought to be about—balance and restraint”
Brad Miner, The Compleat Gentleman: The Modern Man's Guide to Chivalry