Quotes for All
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 … Read more
If I cannot narrate a life of adventurous and daring exploits, fortunately I have no heavy crimes to confess: and, if I do not rise in the estimation of the reader for acts of gallantry and devotion in my country’s cause, at least I may claim the merit of zealous and persevering continuance in my … Read more
Love is the smallest part of gallantry. Francois de La Rochefoucauld
The gallantry of the mind consists in agreeable flattery. Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Gallantry of mind consists in saying flattering things in an agreeable manner. Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Wine gave a sort of gallantry to their own failure. F. Scott Fitzgerald
Gratefulness is the gallantry of a heart ready to rise to the opportunity a given moment offers. David Steindl-Rast
The consequence of a very free commerce between the sexes, and of their living much together, will often terminate in intrigues and gallantry. David Hume
[writing to Stirling in 1740] … an unlucky accident happened to some of the French mathematicians in Peru. It seems that they were shewing French gallantry to the natives’ wives, who have murdered their servants destroyed their instruments and burnt their papers, the Gentlemen escaping narrowly themselves. What an ugly article this will make in … Read more
You must survive with grace. You must do so gallantly. How archaic these terms seem to us in our modern world. There is little grace or gallantry in commerce or politics and not much in art. Chris Cooper