Civility Quotes · Page 2

Civility is a choice.

— Dana Perino

Some people don’t respond to civility.

— James Ellroy

Civility is not simply about manners.

— Jim Leach

I'm attracted to polarizing characters who upend the civility of life.

— Mike White

In religious matters a traveller loses nothing by civility.

— James Branch Cabell

The civility which money will purchase, is rarely extended to those who have none.

— Charles Dickens

Poverty is the test of civility and the touchstone of friendship.

— William Hazlitt

“Civility is important, even though bitchiness is expedient.”

— Laura Tallulah Holland

I know no religion that destroys courtesy, civility, and kindness.

— William Penn

A careless shoe string, in whose tie I see a wilde civility.

— Robert Herrick

There's a civility that has always been a part of me.

— Joel Grey

It's too much to expect in an academic setting that we should all agree, but it is not too much to expect…

— John Howard

Civility does not ...mean the mere outward gentleness of speech cultivated for the occasion, but an inborn gentleness and desire to do…

— Mahatma Gandhi

In the deaths of figures such as George H.W. Bush there's another opportunity to prize the civility we lament as having passed.

— Jessica Tarlov

I published 'Rules of Civility' while I was still working. It became a best seller. I was working on this book, and…

— Amor Towles

After our ages-long journey from savagery to civility, let's hope we haven't bought a round-trip ticket.

— Cullen Hightower

Savages we call them, because their manners differ from ours, which we think the perfection of civility; they think the same of…

— Benjamin Franklin

That character in conversation which commonly passes for agreeable is made up of civility and falsehood.

— Alexander Pope

I believe the gun has no power because a gun can only kill, but a pen can give life.

— Malala Yousafzai

This perpetual round of constrained civilities to persons quite indifferent to us, is the most provoking and tiresome thing in theworld, but…

— Fanny Burney

I'm so sick and tired of all this violence, this gun violence. And how could I speak on it - you know…

— Snoop Dogg

I'm absolutely, utterly, and completely certain that God wouldn't be homophobic. I'd much rather go to hell - I really would much…

— Desmond Tutu

“Civility (sabhyata,) is the sign of one with the right belief (enlightened view, samkit) and etiquette is the sign of one with…

— Dada Bhagwan

She smiled then, an adorable, sweet smile that took his breath away. He forgot all about trying to maintain an air of…

— Maya Banks

I grew up in airports and on air bases. I know what flying and airports can be. And most airports make me…

— Douglas Coupland

Civilization depends on, and civility often requires, the willingness to say, 'What you are doing is none of my business' and 'What…

— George Will

I do not accept that we cannot find a common sense way to preserve our traditions, including our basic second amendment freedoms…

— Barack Obama

George Kennan and Paul Nitze were the Adams and Jefferson of the Cold War. They were there for the beginning, they witnessed…

— John Lewis Gaddis

Ultimately, only diplomacy can bring about a durable solution to the challenge posed by Iran's nuclear program. As President and Commander in…

— Barack Obama

God Almighty first planted a Garden. And indeed it is the purest of human pleasures. It is the greatest refreshment to the…

— Francis Bacon

Now the good of political life is a great political good. It is not a secular good specified by a comprehensive doctrine…

— John Rawls

Never far from a dining table, the characters in Heather A. Slomski's limpid and elegant debut collection are not given to melodramatics.…

— Jaimy Gordon

All buildings, large or small, public or private, have a public face, a facade; they therefore, without exception, have a positive or…

— Leon Krier

“Be constantly civil. Martin Luther King Jr. had shown without fail his fortitude on abiding the laws of civility. In the confines…

— Larry Berg

“It is in the home that our behavior is most significant. It is the place where our actions have the greatest impact,…

— Wayne S. Peterson

“It seems that anonymity prompts people to disregard civility.”

— Kyle Thomas Miller

Civility costs nothing, and buys everything.

— Mary Wortley Montagu

The civility of no race can be perfect whilst another race is degraded.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Civility is a charm that attracts the love of all men.

— George Horne

We need to create a society in which civility rules over cynicism and apathy.

— Antanas Mockus