Cervantes smiled Spain's chivalry away. [ Byron ]

Vain-glorious man, when fluttering wind does blow
In his light wings, is lifted up to sky;
The scorn of knighthood and true chivalry,
To think, without desert of gentle deed
And noble worth, to be advanced high,
Such praise is shame, but honour, virtue's meed.
Doth bear the fairest flower in honourable seed. [ Spenser ]

The age of chivalry has gone; the age of humanity has come. [ Charles Sumner ]

A woman must be truly refined to incite chivalry in the heart of a man. [ Mme. Necker ]

The motto of chivalry is also the motto of wisdom; to serve all and love but one. [ Balzac ]

The age of curiosity, like that of chivalry, is ended, properly speaking, gone. Yet perhaps only gone to sleep. [ Carlyle ]

To him who has thought, or done, or suffered much, the level days of his childhood seem at an immeasurable distance, far off as the age of chivalry, or as the line of Sesostris. [ Talfourd ]