| "A gentleman will not insult me, and no man not a gentleman can insult me." »Frederick Douglas |
| "This is the first test of a gentleman his respect for those who can be of no possible value to him." »William Lyon Phelps |
| "A gentleman is a man who can play the accordion but doesn't." »Unknown |
| "Education begins a gentleman, conversation completes him." »Thomas Fuller |
| "An apology Bah Disgusting Cowardly Beneath the dignity of any gentleman, however wrong he might be." »Baroness Orczy |
| "Conspicuous consumption of valuable goods is a means of reputability to the gentleman of leisure." »Thorstein Veblen |
| "Reading made Don Quixote a gentleman. Believing what he read made him mad." »George Bernard Shaw |
| "'At this festive season of the year, Mr Scrooge,' said the gentleman, taking up a pen, 'it is more than usually desirable that we should make some slight provision for the poor and destitute, who suffer greatly at the present time. ... We choose this time, because it is a time, of all others, when Want is keenly felt, and Abundance rejoices.'" »Charles Dickens |
| "Whoever is open, loyal, true of humane and affable demeanour honourable himself, and in his judgement of others faithful to his word as to law, and faithful alike to God and man....such a man is a true gentleman." »Ralph Waldo Emerson |
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