Anyone can be heroic from time to time, but a gentleman is something you have to be all the time. Which isn't easy.

To a gentleman, a gentleman-someone who dies without ever pronouncing the word-is a man who climbs Everest, never mentions it to a soul, and listens politely to Pochet's account of how in 1937 in spite of his sciatica, he conquered the Puy de Dome.

Repose and cheerfulness are the badge of the gentleman,-repose in energy.

To be a gentleman is to be oneself, all of a seam, on camera and off.

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

The gentle minde by gentle deeds is knowne.