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I can make a lord, but only God almighty can make a gentleman.
King James I of England (1566-1625)
Education begins a gentleman, conversation completes him.
18th century English Proverb.
He was the product of an English public school and university ….no scholar, but essentially a gentleman.
H.Seton Merriman (1862-1903) English novelist.
A gentleman is one who never hurts anyone’s feelings unintentionally.
Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) Anglo-Irish author.
Almost an Emperor and not quite a gentleman.
He is every other inch a gentleman.
Rebecca West (1892-1983) British author.
I am parshial to ladies if they are nice. I suppose it is my nature. I am not quite a gentleman but you would hardly notice it.
It is at unimportant moments that a man is a gentleman. At important moments he ought to be something better.
G.K. Chesterton (1874-1936) British author.
Anyone can be heroic from time to time, but a gentleman is something you have to be all the time.
Luigi Pirandello (1867-1936) Italian playwright, author.
I do not know the American gentleman, God forgive me for putting two such words together.
Charles Dickens (1812-1870) English novelist.
The only infallible rule we know is, that the man who is always talking about being a gentleman never is one.
R.S. Surtees (1803-1864) English novelist.
Whoever is open, loyal, true; of humane and affable demeanor; honorable himself, and in his judgment of others; faithful to his word as to law, and faithful alike to God and man such is a true gentleman.
The flowering of civilization is the finished man the man of sense, of grace, of accomplishment, of social power the gentleman.
Emerson.
Education begins the gentleman, bit reading, good company, and reflection must finish him.
Locke.
The taste of beauty, and the relish of what is decent, just, and amiable, perfect the character of the gentleman and the philosopher. And the study of such a taste or relish will be ever the great employment and concern of him who covets as well to be wise and good as agreeable and polite.
Shaftesbury.
Thoughtfulness for others, generosity, modesty, and self-respect are the qualities which make a real gentleman or lady, as distinguished from the veneered article which commonly goes by that name.
Huxley.
Repose and cheerfulness are the badge of the gentleman repose in energy.
Emerson.
It is a grand old name, that of gentleman, and has been recognized as a rank and power in all stages of society. To possess this character is a dignity of itself, commanding the instinctive homage of every generous mind, and those who will not bow to titular rank will yet do homage to the gentleman. His qualities depend not upon fashion or manners, but upon moral worth; not on personal possessions, but on personal qualities.
S. Smiles.
You may depend upon it, religion is, in its essence, the most gentlemanly thing in the world. It will, alone, gentilize, if unmixed with can’t; and I know nothing else, which, alone, will.
Coleridge.
Perhaps property is as near a word as any to denote the manners of the gentleman. Elegance is necessary to the fine gentleman; dignity is proper to nobleman; and majesty to kings.
Hazlitt.
Men of courage, men of sense, and men of letters are frequent: but a true gentleman is what one seldom sees.
Steele.
The real gentleman should be gentle in everything, at least in everything that depends on himself, carriage, temper, constructions, aims, desires. He ought therefore to be mild, calm, quiet, even, temperate, not hasty in judgment, not exorbitant in ambition, not oppressive; for these things are contrary to gentleness.
Hare.
King James I of England (1566-1625)
Education begins a gentleman, conversation completes him.
18th century English Proverb.
He was the product of an English public school and university ….no scholar, but essentially a gentleman.
H.Seton Merriman (1862-1903) English novelist.
A gentleman is one who never hurts anyone’s feelings unintentionally.
Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) Anglo-Irish author.
Almost an Emperor and not quite a gentleman.
He is every other inch a gentleman.
Rebecca West (1892-1983) British author.
I am parshial to ladies if they are nice. I suppose it is my nature. I am not quite a gentleman but you would hardly notice it.
It is at unimportant moments that a man is a gentleman. At important moments he ought to be something better.
G.K. Chesterton (1874-1936) British author.
Anyone can be heroic from time to time, but a gentleman is something you have to be all the time.
Luigi Pirandello (1867-1936) Italian playwright, author.
I do not know the American gentleman, God forgive me for putting two such words together.
Charles Dickens (1812-1870) English novelist.
The only infallible rule we know is, that the man who is always talking about being a gentleman never is one.
R.S. Surtees (1803-1864) English novelist.
Whoever is open, loyal, true; of humane and affable demeanor; honorable himself, and in his judgment of others; faithful to his word as to law, and faithful alike to God and man such is a true gentleman.
The flowering of civilization is the finished man the man of sense, of grace, of accomplishment, of social power the gentleman.
Emerson.
Education begins the gentleman, bit reading, good company, and reflection must finish him.
Locke.
The taste of beauty, and the relish of what is decent, just, and amiable, perfect the character of the gentleman and the philosopher. And the study of such a taste or relish will be ever the great employment and concern of him who covets as well to be wise and good as agreeable and polite.
Shaftesbury.
Thoughtfulness for others, generosity, modesty, and self-respect are the qualities which make a real gentleman or lady, as distinguished from the veneered article which commonly goes by that name.
Huxley.
Repose and cheerfulness are the badge of the gentleman repose in energy.
Emerson.
It is a grand old name, that of gentleman, and has been recognized as a rank and power in all stages of society. To possess this character is a dignity of itself, commanding the instinctive homage of every generous mind, and those who will not bow to titular rank will yet do homage to the gentleman. His qualities depend not upon fashion or manners, but upon moral worth; not on personal possessions, but on personal qualities.
S. Smiles.
You may depend upon it, religion is, in its essence, the most gentlemanly thing in the world. It will, alone, gentilize, if unmixed with can’t; and I know nothing else, which, alone, will.
Coleridge.
Perhaps property is as near a word as any to denote the manners of the gentleman. Elegance is necessary to the fine gentleman; dignity is proper to nobleman; and majesty to kings.
Hazlitt.
Men of courage, men of sense, and men of letters are frequent: but a true gentleman is what one seldom sees.
Steele.
The real gentleman should be gentle in everything, at least in everything that depends on himself, carriage, temper, constructions, aims, desires. He ought therefore to be mild, calm, quiet, even, temperate, not hasty in judgment, not exorbitant in ambition, not oppressive; for these things are contrary to gentleness.
Hare.
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