Correcting Quote by Confucius

A gentleman can always be told by the way he speaks to those that he thinks are his inferiors in some respect. His equals…

— Fanny Jackson Coppin

A gentleman is someone who does not what he wants to do, but what he should do.

— Haruki Murakami

A gentleman is one who doesn't and can't forgive himself for self-committed mistake even if others forget it and the self-criticism is a mark…

— Anonymous

If the gentleman has ability, he is magnanimous, generous, tolerant, and straightforward, through which he opens the way to instruct others.

— Anonymous

A real 'gentleman' is a truly noble man. He is a man worthy to command, a man of integrity, capable of exposing, even sacrificing…

— Kathleen Scott

In his dealings with the world, the gentleman is not invariably for or against anything. He is on the side of what is moral.

— Confucius

The gentleman does not needlessly and unnecessarily remind an offender of a wrong he may have committed against him. He cannot only forgive, he…

— Robert E. Lee

The only infallible rule we know is, that the man who is always talking about being a gentleman never is one.

— Robert Smith Surtees

Essential characteristics of a gentleman: The will to put himself in the place of others; the horror of forcing others into positions from which…

— John Galsworthy

The gentleman is a man of truth, lord of his own actions, and expressing that lordship in his behavior, not in any manner dependent…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The first requisite of a gentleman is to be true, brave and noble, and to be therefore a rebuke and scandal to venal and…

— John Lancaster Spalding

A gentleman does not appear to know more or to be more than those with whom he is thrown into company.

— John Lancaster Spalding