Civility famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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German civility, which often seems stiff to us, shows an attentive and touching respect for the person that I often prefer to our offhandedness.
-- Adrienne Monnier -
There are people who balk at small civilities on account of their manifest insincerity. ... It is better and more logical to accept all the polite phraseology which facilitates intercourse, and contributes to the sweetness of life. If we discarded the formal falsehoods which are the currency of conversation, we should not be one step nearer the vital things of truth.
-- Agnes Repplier -
That character in conversation which commonly passes for agreeable is made up of civility and falsehood.
-- Alexander Pope -
Civility also requires relearning how to disagree without being disagreeable. Surely you can question my policies without questioning my faith or, for that matter, my citizenship.
-- Barack Obama -
The civility which money will purchase, is rarely extended to those who have none.
-- Charles Dickens -
Martha Stewart contributes more to our civility than the Baptist Church.
-- Dave Hickey -
Southerners have many fine qualities, charm and civility among them, and a sense of the tragic....
-- Dean Koontz -
Civility is only a passenger - not a driver - on the information superhighway.
-- Don Rittner -
There is chaos behind the civility, of course.
-- Edward Albee -
Civility, it is said, means obeying the unenforceable.
-- Ellen Goodman -
Civility is a desire to receive civilities, and to be accounted well-bred.
-- Francois de La Rochefoucauld -
Familiarity is a suspension of almost all the laws of civility, which libertinism has introduced into society under the notion of ease.
-- Francois de La Rochefoucauld -
Civility is a charm that attracts the love of all men.
-- George Horne -
In religious matters a traveller loses nothing by civility.
-- James Branch Cabell -
Civility is perhaps a quaint notion but civility in Parliament is something we should always strive to uphold.
-- Jay Weatherill -
All of civility depends on being able to contain the rage of individuals.
-- Joshua Lederberg -
Civility costs nothing, and buys everything.
-- Mary Wortley Montagu -
We see a decline of civility, and, sadly, it’s often modeled by the very people from whom we have the least right to expect it.
-- Max De Pree -
[T]he politically correct are above the rules of ordinary civility, once they have identified you as an unbeliever in their religion.
-- Orson Scott Card -
Politeness and civility are the best capital ever invested in business.
-- P. T. Barnum -
I am told that I had a bad temper, and remember being banished to the back hall until civility returned.
-- Paul D. Boyer -
A careless shoe string, in whose tie I see a wilde civility.
-- Robert Herrick -
I know it's sappy, but I bet there's a market for civility and niceness out there that, while probably not as titillating as a junkyard scrap between shirtless adversaries, it'd sure be healthier.
-- Steven Weber -
Being aloof, gruff, or stern never got anyone anywhere. Who wants to be treated like that? Certainly not you. And surely not the people you meet.
-- Wayne D. Dosick -
I know it's very 'old media' of me to admit this, but I am often unnerved by the lack of civility on the Web.
-- Willow Bay -
It is so much easier to extol the virtues of civility than to talk civilly about the virtues we need to uphold.
-- Amitai Etzioni -
Unfortunately civility is hard to codify or legislate, but you know it when you see it. It's possible to disagree without being disagreeable.
-- Sandra Day O'Connor -
The people who are good at being civil often lack strong convictions and people who have strong convictions often lack civility.
-- Martin E. Marty
