Courtesy Quote by Mas Oyama

A gentleman considers justice to be essential in everything. He practices it according to the principles of propriety. He brings it forth in modesty…

— Confucius

A man who knows the court is master of his gestures, of his eyes and of his face; he is profound, impenetratable; he dissimulates…

— Jean de la Bruyere

A man's vanity tells him what is honor, a man's conscience what is justice.

— Walter Savage Landor

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

Whoever is open, loyal, true; of humane and affable demeanour; honourable himself, and in his judgement of others; faithful to his word as to…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Be noble minded! Our own heart, and not other men's opinions of us, forms our true honor.

— Friedrich Schiller

A gentleman, is a rarer thing than some of us think for. Which of us can point out many such in his circle--men whose…

— William Makepeace Thackeray

The only principles of public conduct that are worthy of a gentleman or a man are to sacrifice estate, ease, health, and applause, and…

— James Otis

The gentleman is generous and treats all men as his equals, especially those whom he feels to be inferior in rank and wealth.

— Hilaire Belloc

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

“In everything that can be called art there is a quality of redemption. It may be pure tragedy, if it is high tragedy, and…

— Raymond Chandler

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