Gentleman Quote by John Henry Newman

It is almost a definition of a gentleman to say that he is one who never inflicts pain.

— John Henry Newman

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

— Oscar Wilde

The man who is always talking about being a gentleman, never is one.

— Bill Vaughan

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

A gentleman is someone who never gives offense unintentionally.

— Eva Brann

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

— Haruki Murakami

A gentleman is one who understands and shows every mark of deference to the claims of self-love in others, and exacts it in return…

— William Hazlitt

A true gentleman makes demands upon himself but not upon others.

— Confucius

A man, without at least a pinch of femininity, will never be a gentleman.

— Jean-Paul Malfatti

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

A true gentleman is one who is never intentionally rude.

— Oscar Wilde

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