Art Quote by Lord Chesterfield

Propriety of manners, and consideration for others, are the two main characteristics of a gentleman.

— Benjamin Disraeli

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

— Anonymous

A gentleman is a man who is only rude when he intends to be.

— Winston Churchill

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

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 never gives offense unintentionally.

— Eva Brann

The manner of a vulgar man has freedom without ease; the manner of a gentleman, ease without freedom

— Lord Chesterfield

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

The manner of a vulgar man has freedom without ease, and the manner of a gentleman has ease without freedom.

— Lord Chesterfield

It indicates a person who has not only good manners but who possesses a sense of balance, a sure mastery of himself, a moral…

— Antonio Gramsci

The expression of a gentleman's face is not so much that of refinement, as of flexibility, not of sensibility and enthusiasm as of indifference;…

— William Hazlitt

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

— Oscar Wilde