“To be a gentleman does not depend upon the tailor or the toilet. Good clothes are not good habits. A gentleman is just a gentle-man, — no more, no less; a diamond polished, that was first a diamond in the rough.” – William Croswell Doane
“I’ve never heard my dad say a bad word about anybody. He always keeps his emotions in check and is a true gentleman. I was taught that losing it was indulgent, a selfish act.” – Hugh Jackman
“It is a principle of his that no man who was not a true gentleman at heart, ever was, since the world began, a true gentleman in manner. He says, no varnish can hide the grain of the wood; and that the more varnish you put on, the more the grain will express itself.” – Charles Dickens
“A true gentleman is one that apologizes anyways, even though he has not offended a lady intentionally. He is in a class all of his own because he knows the value of a woman’s heart.” ― Shannon L. Alder
“A gentleman would be ashamed should his deeds not match his words.” – Confucius
“Believe me, there exists no such dilemma as that in which a gentleman is placed when he is forced to reply to a blackguard.” – Edgar Allan Poe
“Courtesy is as much a mark of a gentleman as courage.” – Theodore Roosevelt
““The final test of a gentleman is his respect for those who can be of no possible service to him.” – William Lyon Phelps
“The next good quality belonging to a gentleman, is good breeding [manners]. There are two sorts of ill-breeding : the one a sheepish bashfulness , and the other a mis-becoming negligence and disrespect in our carriage ; both of which are avoided by duly observing this one rule, not to think meanly of ourselves, and not to think meanly of others.” – John Locke
