In all highly civilised communities Pretence is prominent, and sooner or later invades the regions of Literature. — James Payn Copy Share Image
When we get civilised, I believe children will go by number until they get old enough to choose their own names. — Myrtle Reed Copy Share Image
Vigorous societies harbour a certain extravagance of objectives. — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
We can only truly be civilised people when we have regular and meaningful contact with the wild world — Simon Barnes Copy Share Image
All civilised countries should unite in the fight against international terrorism. — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
“The presence of the policeman around the corner is the only thing that keeps us civilised.” — Paul Russell Copy Share Image
“I did not know it, but that was the last civilised dinner I was to eat for very many strange and terrible… — H.G. Wells 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
Brits are far more intelligent and civilised than Americans. I love the fact that you can hail a taxi and just pick… — Gwyneth Paltrow Copy Share Image
Going to a restaurant is one of my keenest pleasures. Meeting someplace with old and new friends, ordering wine, eating food, surrounded… — Adam Gopnik Copy Share Image
Pretending is the basis of civilised society, and it is sometimes necessary for all of us. Without it we are nothing more… — Jeff Lindsay Copy Share Image
On this waterlogged landscape…are scattered palaces and hovels…It is here that the human spirit becomes perfect, and at the same time brutalised,… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
Civilised life, you know, is based on a huge number of illusions in which we all collaborate willingly. The trouble is we… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“There are other, civilised ways of dealing with the matter," Dllenahkh insisted. Darithiven looked at him with pity. "Then, by your definition,… — Karen Lord 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
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
It is so far from being natural for a man and woman to live in a state of marriage, that we find… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Swedes are such a civilised, perfect society - at least on the surface. There's a great safety net, a huge middle class,… — Alexander Skarsgard 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
The vigour of civilised societies is preserved by the widespread sense that high aims are worth while. Vigorous societies harbour a certain… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
The Government which attacks its own innocent subjects has no claim to be called a civilised government. Bear in mind, such a… — Lala Lajpat Rai Copy Share Image
Sex is probably one of the last forms of human expression to enjoy such a direct connection with nature. It might be… — Thomas Koerfer 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
The artichoke above all is the vegetable expression of civilised living, of the long view, of increasing delight by anticipation and crescendo.… — Jane Grigson Copy Share Image
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
England and all civilised nations stand in deadly peril of not having enough to eat. As mouths multiply, food resources dwindle. Land… — William Crookes Copy Share Image
In the background lurks the scourge of international terrorism. There are people exercising power in a few countries and leading political factions… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
At some future period, not very distant as measured by centuries, the civilised races of man will almost certainly exterminate and replace… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
To play with baubles is our ambition, not to deal with grave questions in a spirit of serious energy. But while we… — Sri Aurobindo Copy Share Image
The Germans, in the age of Tacitus, were unacquainted with the use of letters; and the use of letters is the principal… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
The permissive society has been allowed to become a dirty phrase. A better phrase is the civilised society — Roy Jenkins Copy Share Image
The possession and the enjoyment of property are the pledges which bind a civilised people to an improved country. — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
That monstrous tuberosity of civilised life, the capital of England. — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
