The Compleat Gentleman Quotes

“There is a worldwide longing for civility.”
― Brad Miner, The Compleat Gentleman: The Modern Man's Guide to Chivalry

“There is a worldwide longing for civility.”
― Brad Miner, The Compleat Gentleman: The Modern Man's Guide to Chivalry

“The compleat gentleman has always been akin to the warrior, but it does not follow that he has always been a soldier. When duty calls, he will be a fighter, but his martial skill may be practiced with his wits rather than his fists.”
― Brad Miner, The Compleat Gentleman: The Modern Man's Guide to Chivalry

“Chivalry is first and foremost the worldview of fighting men.”
― Brad Miner, The Compleat Gentleman: The Modern Man's Guide to Chivalry

“Perfection is not given to any man. But an aspiration to perfection—to the highest possible standards in every aspect of life—is possible.”
― Brad Miner, The Compleat Gentleman: The Modern Man's Guide to Chivalry

“A compleat gentleman is a man who tries to do what is right and honorable in any given situation. He seeks harmony with the laws of God, or nature, and of man.”
― Brad Miner, The Compleat Gentleman: The Modern Man's Guide to Chivalry

“The compleat gentleman is not a perfect man.”
― Brad Miner, The Compleat Gentleman: The Modern Man's Guide to Chivalry

“To be properly educated, one must reject contemporary pedagogical enthusiasms.”
― Brad Miner, The Compleat Gentleman: The Modern Man's Guide to Chivalry

“A gentleman is contemplative in that he never ceases to refine his sense of reality.”
― Brad Miner, The Compleat Gentleman: The Modern Man's Guide to Chivalry

“chivalry demands that a man respect a woman’s wishes. Needless to say, this does not mean that a compleat gentleman is his lady’s lackey.”
― Brad Miner, The Compleat Gentleman: The Modern Man's Guide to Chivalry

“Peace is justice in foreign relations; equality is justice in society; passion is justice in marriage; wisdom is justice in education; restraint is justice in behavior.”
― Brad Miner, The Compleat Gentleman: The Modern Man's Guide to Chivalry

“A gentleman takes a woman on her own terms, and in doing so he puts the lie to ideological drivel about oppression.”
― Brad Miner, The Compleat Gentleman: The Modern Man's Guide to Chivalry

“We value education, but we do not understand its history.”
― Brad Miner, The Compleat Gentleman: The Modern Man's Guide to Chivalry

“Education is the empowerment of the mind to continuously seek the true and the beautiful, regardless of ideological distractions.”
― Brad Miner, The Compleat Gentleman: The Modern Man's Guide to Chivalry

“Men and women don’t have to be exactly equal, but a gentleman does have to allow a woman to be what she wants to be.”
― Brad Miner, The Compleat Gentleman: The Modern Man's Guide to Chivalry

“Coming close to death is a humbling experience.”
― Brad Miner, The Compleat Gentleman: The Modern Man's Guide to Chivalry

“I often hear it said that violence is not inevitable, and, therefore, that a warrior attitude and training are unnecessary. I once thought so too, but I grew up, and now the pacifists and I are simply moral strangers.”
― Brad Miner, The Compleat Gentleman: The Modern Man's Guide to Chivalry

“Hollywood, especially, has tended to portray the warrior as a dysfunctional individual.”
― Brad Miner, The Compleat Gentleman: The Modern Man's Guide to Chivalry

“A compleat gentleman seeks a harmonious union of body and soul, and if his will—his soul—is strong then his body ought to be strong as well.”
― Brad Miner, The Compleat Gentleman: The Modern Man's Guide to Chivalry

“The compleat gentleman’s rectitude does not prohibit him from having a sense of humor. His Stoic sense of life and his urbane education ought to give him wit.”
― Brad Miner, The Compleat Gentleman: The Modern Man's Guide to Chivalry

“Life is a martial art.”
― Brad Miner, The Compleat Gentleman: The Modern Man's Guide to Chivalry

“I acknowledge the efficacy of a kind of peacemaking, especially in the hothouse climate of so many American schools. However, strength and honor more dependably keep the peace than does palaver about psychic posture and moral equivalence.”
― brad miner, The Compleat Gentleman: The Modern Man's Guide to Chivalry

“I propose three models—archetypes if you like—that comprise the dimensions of a chivalrous gentleman’s character: the warrior, the lover, and the monk.”
― Brad Miner, The Compleat Gentleman: The Modern Man's Guide to Chivalry

“Chivalry is first and foremost the worldview of fighting men, and I am convinced that the decline of the gentlemanly ideal has occurred at least in part because men really are flabby—physically and spiritually.”
― Brad Miner, The Compleat Gentleman: The Modern Man's Guide to Chivalry

“Words have meaning, and we should respect them.”
― Brad Miner, The Compleat Gentleman: The Modern Man's Guide to Chivalry

“The cherished assumption in teaching has always been that truth is what matters, and until the last decade no one would have thought the truth should be denied because some consider it offensive or ‘triggering.”
― Brad Miner, The Compleat Gentleman: The Modern Man's Guide to Chivalry

“When the next war comes—and it will (so history teaches us)—the burden of combat will not be carried by either strong women or weak men, although the sacrifice of the former will be warmly embraced by the best men.”
― Brad Miner, The Compleat Gentleman: The Modern Man's Guide to Chivalry

“The egalitarianism that is the most offensive is the notion, whether embodied in opinion or law, that every way of behaving is as good as any other and that the man who stands apart by reason of his dignity, restraint, and discernment is somehow an Enemy of the People”
― Brad Miner, The Compleat Gentleman: The Modern Man's Guide to Chivalry

“Some overly enthusiastic feminists have suggested a fundamental bias in the word—and in the process it represents—and have enjoyed proclaiming their account of women in the past as herstory. But “history” comes from Middle English histoire, which is exactly the modern French word for both “history” and “story,” and before that from Latin and Greek—all languages in which “his” is not the masculine personal pronoun. But wordplay among contemporary academic theorists works whether or not it’s true, and this is simply a lie.”
― Brad Miner, The Compleat Gentleman: The Modern Man's Guide to Chivalry

“I do confess that I bring to the study of history the prejudices born of my experiences and imagination—who doesn’t—but I will not admit that this disqualifies me from seeing some bit of the truth about the past, even if only a bit.”
― Brad Miner, The Compleat Gentleman: The Modern Man's Guide to Chivalry