And though it is much to be a nobleman, it is more to be a gentleman.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Anyone can be heroic from time to time, but a gentleman is something you have to be all the time.
There is a natural aristocracy among men. The grounds of this are virtue and talents.
I'm a gentleman, if nothing else. It's taken me years to become one, but finally I have a sense of propriety.
Nobility is a graceful ornament to the civil order. It is the Corinthian capital of polished society.
A gentleman is one who puts more into the world than he takes out.
There's nobility in hard work, traditional values.
I think a gentleman is someone who holds the comfort of other people above their own. The instinct to do that is inside every good man, I believe. The rules about opening doors and buying dinner and all of that other 'gentleman' stuff is a chess game, especially these days.
I have an image of what a British gentleman looks like, and that image finds real expression in Prince Charles. He is beyond fashion - he is an archetype of style.
The only infallible rule we know is, that the man who is always talking about being a gentleman never is one.
There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow men. True nobility lies in being superior to your former self.