It is time to remind Sharon that the star of David belongs to all Jews, not to his repulsive Government. His actions… — Gerald Kaufman Copy Share Image
The English language is like London: proudly barbaric yet deeply civilised, too, common yet royal, vulgar yet processional, sacred yet profane. — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
Violence is the tool of the barbarian; aggression is the method of the primitive; bloodshed is the way of the savage; cruelty… — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
It is the decisive people who have become civilised; it is the indecisive, otherwise called the higher sceptics, or the idealistic doubters,… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
We would all love to walk up to someone and shoot them in the head, there's no doubt about that. We're too… — Lee Child Copy Share Image
It is the habitual carriage of the umbrella that is the stamp of Respectability. Robinson Crusoe was rather a moralist than a… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
In all highly civilised communities Pretence is prominent, and sooner or later invades the regions of Literature. — James Payn Copy Share Image
London is one of the most civilised places in the world for the procedure of making architecture and urban design. — Renzo Piano Copy Share Image
Around it are those countries which, according to History, constitute the civilised world ie, a world that can support historians — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
The ancient Roman code belongs to a class of which almost every civilised nation in the world can show a sample, and… — Henry James Sumner Maine Copy Share Image
The direction of society has been taken over by a type of man who is not interested in the principles of civilisation.… — Jose Ortega y Gasset Copy Share Image
Whatever is fine and permanent in human achievement has been realised through individuals courageously facing the circumstances of their being; and a… — Malcolm Muggeridge Copy Share Image
Now that their long war was over, they could get on with the proper concern of all civilised nations, which is to… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
England is the only civilised country in the world where it is etiquette to fall on the food like a wolf the… — Virginia Graham Copy Share Image
It is the duty of the followers of Islam to spread through the civilised world, a knowledge of what Islam means -… — Annie Besant Copy Share Image
It is a mark of civilised man that he seeks to understand his traditions, and to criticise them, not to swallow them… — Moses Finley Copy Share Image
The foundation for a new era was laid but yesterday. The human was given its first chance to become truly civilised when… — Hendrik Willem van Loon Copy Share Image
As a civilised society, we have a duty to support those among us who are vulnerable and in need. When times are… — Justin Welby Copy Share Image
With highly civilised nations continued progress depends in a subordinate degree on natural selection; for such nations do not supplant and exterminate… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
All doctrines relating to the creation of the world, the government of man by superior beings, and his destiny after death, are… — William Winwood Reade Copy Share Image
Great part of that order which reigns among mankind is not the effect of government. It has its origin in the principles… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
I have a flat in Paris and go there a lot, but the Eurostar's much more civilised than flying. — Michael Bond Copy Share Image
That monstrous tuberosity of civilised life, the capital of England. — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
