Characteristics Quote by Doug Stanhope

Among well bred people a mutual deference is affected, contempt for others is disguised; authority concealed; attention given to each in his turn; and…

— David Hume

One may know a man that never conversed in the world, by his excess of good-breeding.

— Joseph Addison

A well-bred man is always sociable and complaisant.

— Michel de Montaigne

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

“There is nothing by which a man exasperates most people more, than displaying a superior ability of briliancy in conversation. They seem pleased at…

— Samuel Johnson

The nobler a man, the harder it is for him to suspect inferiority in others.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

He that can enjoy the intimacy of the great, and on no occasion disgust them by familiarity, or disgrace himself by servility, proves that…

— Charles Caleb Colton

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

— Anonymous

A superior man is modest in his speech, but exceeds in his actions.

— Confucius

Superiority to circumstances is one of the most prominent characteristics of great men.

— Horace Mann

In civilized life, where the happiness, and indeed almost the existence, of man depends so much upon the opinion of his fellow-men, he is…

— Washington Irving

Great men never make bad use of their superiority. They see it and feel it and are not less modest. The more they have,…

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau