Chilvalry's Quotes

#1. Chilvalry's essential function, Maurice Keen has written, is always to hold up an idealised image of armed conflict in defiance of the harsh realities of actual warfare. By definition, chivalry also reaffirms the paramount importance of custom, hierarchy and inherited rank.

Linda Colley

#2. You never buy a woman an appliance or anything to use for keeping house.

Kathleen Brooks

#3. Every time government attempts to handle our affairs, it costs more and the results are worse than if we had handled them ourselves.

Benjamin Constant

#4. To forgive is to be free from past resentment to welcome the dawn of peace.

Debasish Mridha

#5. My aim in helping the patient was not to cause death. My aim was to end suffering. It's got to be decriminalized.

Jack Kevorkian

#6. Time to wake to a wholesome diet--Marx and Engels, Andy Warhol and Ken Kesey, Jack Kerouak and the Grateful Dead, Sartre and Gide--it was a regimen of semen in the sixties and we never even knew we were choking. [109]

Claire Robson

#7. I hate that word, 'quirky.' It's like the worst f - king word in the world.

Norman Reedus

#8. Every time you go the way the audience expects, they'll think you're original. People laugh with pleasure at the obvious.

Keith Johnstone

#9. the fighting machines that kept the country safe, and, the coffers full.

Julia Fierro

#10. Interest works night and day in fair weather and in foul. It gnaws at a man's substance with invisible teeth.

Henry Ward Beecher