Colin : “Perhaps now is the time to tell you that I have a weakness for agreeable women. ” Sugar Beth : “Well, that sure does leave me out. ” Colin : “Exactly. With agreeable women, I’m unendingly considerate. Gallant even. ” Sugar Beth : “But with tarts like me, the gloves are off, is that it?” Colin : “I wouldn’t exactly call you a tart. But then, I tend to be broad-minded. ” She suppressed the urge to dump her porridge in his lap.
It is true that I must run a great risk; no gallant action was ever accomplished without danger.
Let vice and immorality of every kind be discouraged as much as possible in your brigade; and, as a chaplain is allowed to each regiment, see that the men regularly attend during worship. Gaming of every kind is expressly forbidden, as being the foundation of evil, and the cause of many a brave and gallant officer's and soldier's ruin.
Chorus of women: [. . . ] Oh! my good, gallant Lysistrata, and all my friends, be ever like a bundle of nettles; never let you anger slacken; the wind of fortune blown our way.
Selfishness, not love, is the actuating motive of the gallant.
In the songs all knights are gallant, all maids are beautiful, and the sun is always shining.
For a gallant spirit there can never be defeat.
The sunshine was delightful, the foliage gently astir, more from the activity of birds than from the breeze. One gallant little bird, doubtless lovelorn, was singing his heart out at the top of a tall tree.
I can think of nothing more gallant, even though again and again we fail, than attempting to get at the facts; attempting to tell things as they really are. For at least reality, though never fully attained, can be defined. Reality is that which, when you don’t believe in it, doesn’t go away.
A gallant man is above ill words.
My heart bleeds at the death of every one of our gallant men.
I yield to no man in sympathy for the gallant men under my command; but I am obliged to sweat them tonight, so that I may save their blood tomorrow.
True love is not only blind, but too gallant to ask a lady's age.
A coward dies a thousand deaths, the gallant never taste of death but once.
Oh, the gallant fisher's life!It is the best of any;'T is full of pleasure, void of strife,And 't is beloved by many.
I am a friend to any brave and gallant outlaw.
I have read that the secret of gallantry is to accept the pleasures of life leisurely, and its inconveniences with a shrug; as well as that, among other requisites, the gallant person will always consider the world with a smile of toleration, and his own doings with a smile of honest amusement, and Heaven with a smile which is not distrustful — being thoroughly persuaded that God is kindlier than the genteel would regard as rational.
Love just seems to make life not just livable, but a gallant, gallant event.
All cities are mad: but the madness is gallant. All cities are beautiful: but the beauty is grim.
There are really only two ways to approach life - as victim or as gallant fighter - and you must decide if you want to act or react, deal your own cards or play with a stacked deck. And if you don't decide which way to play with life, it always plays with you.
