As many definitions of what a constitutes a gentleman exist as naysayers prepared to decry the decline in gentlemanly standards. “A true gentleman,” said Oscar Wilde, “is who is never unintentionally rude,” while the 18th – century English physician Dr. Thomas Fuller pronounces that a gentleman “is a man who can disagree without being disagreeable.” however, universal agreement will never be reached on what attributes are necessary for someone to be esteemed a gentleman, not least because the term itself has long been in a state of evolution