Forgive me Quote by Charles Dickens

The Englishman wants to be recognized as a gentleman, or as some other suitable species of human being; the American wants to be considered…

— Louis Kronenberger

If Wellington epitomizes the English gentleman, Eisenhower epitomizes the natural American gentleman.

— John Keegan

It is those moral and spiritual qualities which rise alone in free men, which will fulfill the meaning of the word American. And with…

— Herbert Hoover

“An American is a man who is greater in his soul than in his class, creed, political party, or the section in which he…

— David Barton

A gentleman is someone who never gives offense unintentionally.

— Eva Brann

A gentleman is one who never hurts anyone's feelings unintentionally.

— Oscar Wilde

No man surely has so short a memory as the American.

— Rebecca Harding Davis

A gentleman is one who puts more into the world than he takes out.

— George Bernard Shaw

I take it that 'gentleman' is a term that only describes a person in his relation to others; but when we speak of him…

— Elizabeth Gaskell

“An argument ensued about abundance, leisure, work, nature, and what a second girl kept calling 'the American way.' When I asked her what she…

— David Guterson

Rarely do you meet an American who knows his Wordsworth.

— Alice Eve