Civility Quotes · Page 3

Nothing costs less nor is cheaper than compliments of civility.

— Miguel de Cervantes

In my entire time in Washington, I treated everyone with respect, with civility.

— Ted Cruz

All of civility depends on being able to contain the rage of individuals.

— Joshua Lederberg

Civility is the art and act of caring for others.

— Deborah King

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

— Laura Tallulah Holland

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

— William Penn

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

— William Hazlitt

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

— Mike White

I think almost every writer in the world would hope that books would be always talked about with respect and civility and…

— Dave Eggers

I have often seen people uncivil by too much civility, and tiresome in their courtesy.

— Michel de Montaigne

While it's true that Washington would benefit from more civility, the Senate, behind the scenes, is an extraordinarily collegial institution.

— Jon Kyl

Comedy speaks for civilization; farce bears an ill-concealed, sometimes unconcealed animus against civilization. Often against civility too.

— Irving Howe

Civility isn't just some optional value in a multicultural, multistate democratic republic. Civility is the key to civilization.

— Van Jones

“The system wears a mask of civility, yet will quickly reveal its true nature in the form of magnificently-purposed violence when needed.”

— Bryant McGill

Being aloof, gruff, or stern never got anyone anywhere. Who wants to be treated like that? Certainly not you. And surely not…

— Wayne D. Dosick

Civility is not something we should simply talk about one day and forget the next. It is a principle we should practice…

— Mike Johnson

I think nonviolence and the mediation of conflict by means of respecting civility must be promoted. But being the kind of beings…

— Cornel West

You ultimately judge the civility of a society not by how it treats the rich, the powerful, the protected and the highly…

— Bryan Stevenson

I didn't knowingly meet a conservative until, to my shame, I was 60 years old and sat down and said, 'Wow, I…

— David Mamet

I could not but wonder at the queen's unprecedented civility, until I realized with a flush of shame that it was my…

— Catherine Gilbert Murdock

When you're going into an employment environment that looks pretty scary, it is easy to lose your moral compass, your decency, your…

— Henry Rollins

I loved England's gentility and its civility. I'm from the Bronx, with a Bronx accent. I love the beauty of its language,…

— Sid Bernstein

All political movements are like this - we are in the right, everyone else is in the wrong. The people on our…

— Doris Lessing

My hope is that we would begin to have a dialogue in this country about the importance of civility. We can have…

— Tom Brokaw

I've spent my life living in rural America, some of it in blue state Vermont, some of it in red state upstate…

— Bill McKibben

Technology and production can be great benefactors of man, but they are mindless instruments, and if undirected they careen along with a…

— Charles A. Reich

Her companion's discourse now sunk from its hitherto animated pitch, to nothing more than a short, decisive sentence of praise or condemnation…

— Jane Austen

Civility, which is a disposition to accommodate and oblige others, is essentially the same in every country; but good breeding, asit is…

— Lord Chesterfield

Let’s not forget that American democracy started with ‘We the People’ agreeing to work hard to create ‘a more perfect union.’ We’ve…

— Parker J. Palmer

My object then," replied Darcy, "was to show you, by every civility in my power, that I was not so mean as…

— Jane Austen

Congress needs to send a strong signal that direct communication with the leader of the free world is a privilege, particularly for…

— Ted Cruz

“Women enjoy a different history of madness. From witchcraft to hysteria we're just bad news. We know that women were condemned as…

— Cormac McCarthy

In religious matters a traveller loses nothing by civility.

— James Branch Cabell

“extraordinary talent and civility were not mutually exclusive”

— Jacque Pepin

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

— Charles Dickens

We were wrong when we defined 'civility' as saying the wrong things the right way.

— Karine Jean-Pierre

The really great athletes make their news on the field, not off the field.

— Jimmy Haslam

“A sweetened poison may go down more easily but will kill you just as surely.”

— Jamie Arpin-Ricci

“All of that savage power hidden under so much civility.”

— Jacquelyn Frank

I think civility is important to getting things done.

— Amy Klobuchar