It is quite complicated, being civilised.

The problem with climate change is that it's quite complicated for the ordinary person to understand.

— Lewis Gordon Pugh

“They're called cliches because they're true, you know. Besides, life is quite complicated enough...”

— Elizabeth Noble

I think there's an intricacy in doing something that's meant to look really simple and having it actually be quite complicated.

— Thomas S. Tait

It's quite complicated and sounds circular, but we've worked out a way of calculate a Web site's importance.

— Larry Page

Love is agony, isn't it? I've been involved with someone for some time now, but it's all so complicated. It's never straightforward is it?…

— Daphne Guinness

Architecture, sculpture, painting, music, and poetry, may truly be called the efflorescence of civilised life.

— Herbert Spencer

I suffered most inconvenience from the difficulty of getting news from the civilised world down river, from the irregularity of receipt of letters, parcels…

— Henry Walter Bates

Bombing is not especially inhumane. War itself is inhumane and the bombing plane, which is used to paralyse industry and transport, is a relatively…

— George Orwell

This generation may either be the last to exist in any semblance of a civilised world or that it will be the first to…

— Richard St. Barbe Baker

The civilised cultures are the most cruel. It's the same with education - often it breeds sadistic forms of cruelty.

— Nellie McKay

This extraordinary metal, the soul of every manufacture, and the mainspring perhaps of civilised society. Of iron.

— Samuel Smiles

When we get civilised, I believe children will go by number until they get old enough to choose their own names.

— Myrtle Reed

On this waterlogged landscape…are scattered palaces and hovels…It is here that the human spirit becomes perfect, and at the same time brutalised, that civilisation…

— Alexis de Tocqueville

Civilised my syphilised yarbles.

— Anthony Burgess

Even today to be civilised is held to be synonymous with being westernised. Advanced countries devote large resources to formulating and spreading ideas and…

— Indira Gandhi