Civility Quotes · Page 5

“Virtue became less the harsh and martial self-sacrifice of antiquity and more the modern willingness to get along with others for the…

— Gordon S. Wood

“Be wary of those propagating too much about liberty, ideology, and civility; they just might be oppressors in the making.”

— Aniruddha Sastikar

The issue that a political campaign would make a human life into - you know - a political football, is unsettling.

— John Hickenlooper

Civility is perhaps a quaint notion but civility in Parliament is something we should always strive to uphold.

— Jay Weatherill

There should be some civility when it comes to being president of the United States.

— Jim Boeheim

The thorny point Of bare distress hath ta'en from me the show Of smooth civility; yet am I inland bred And know…

— William Shakespeare

I am a pretty level-headed person, but that person, Harry Reid, has been the most destructive entity in Washington when it comes…

— Dana Perino

The highest proof of civility is that the whole public action of the State is directed on securing the greatest good of…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

If a man continually blusters, if he lacks civility, a big stick will not save him from trouble, and neither will speaking…

— Theodore Roosevelt

Seattle is not an overly friendly city. It is a civil city, but not altogether friendly. People from outside mistake the civility…

— Jonathan Raban

Panic is rare, looting is essentially insignificant, people are not terrified and trampling each other to flee from a disaster scene, but…

— Rebecca Solnit

When I sat down to write 'Rules of Civility,' I didn't write it for anybody but myself. I wasn't trying to make…

— Amor Towles

The whole country wants civility. Why don't we have it? It doesn't cost anything. No federal funding, no legislation is involved. One…

— Judith Martin

A winning wave, (deserving note.) In the tempestuous petticote, A careless shoe-string, in whose tye I see a wilde civility,-- Doe more…

— Robert Herrick

I will attack ideas very hard. I am not shy about that one bit. So I don't want people to think that…

— Dan Crenshaw

We are losing sight of civility in government and politics. Debate and dialogue is taking a back seat to the politics of…

— James McGreevey

John Stuart Mill, in his wonderful 1859 book On Liberty, talks about civility. And this is why you should always be concerned…

— Greg Lukianoff

“They were buffoons with barricaded eyes, their shoulders held in positions of immovable defense. Each position upon the great floor could be…

— Frank Herbert

The first rule of etiquette a boy learns when he's about to enter society is that civility is due to all women.…

— Ilona Andrews

I think the things that are more painful to me are not the intrusion of paparazzi, it's the lack of civility that…

— Sarah Jessica Parker

We all accuse Vladimir Putin of Cold War nostalgia, but Washington's elites - politicians and intellectuals - miss the old days as…

— Fareed Zakaria

Some things are apparent. Where government moves in, community retreats, civil society disintegrates and our ability to control our own destiny atrophies.…

— Janice Rogers Brown

In less than a century after the barbarian nations settled in their new conquests, almost all the effects of the knowledge and…

— Bryan Ward-Perkins

“our civility is grounded in a genuine conviction that we have much to do by way of preparing for the city that…

— Richard J. Mouw

“It is contrary to the usual practice of professional men to give their opinions upon each other's work unless regularly called upon…

— John Smeaton

They parted at last with mutual civility, and possibly a mutual desire of never meeting again.

— Jane Austen

[Hillary Clinton] and I are fine. Are we going to be besties for the rest of our lives? No.

— Claire McCaskill

Civility is not a tactic or a sentiment. It is the determined choice of trust over cynicism, of community over chaos.

— George W. Bush

Larry King's show got to be an increasingly lonely outpost of humane civility in a mephitic menagerie of hotheads, saber rattlers, cretins…

— Tom Shales

Our relationship now thoroughly ruined, with even civility destroyed between us, all I wanted anymore was the door.

— Elizabeth Gilbert

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

— Mike Johnson

“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

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

— Van Jones

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

— Irving Howe

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

— Jon Kyl

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

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

— Michel de Montaigne

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

— Dave Eggers

“That is why I often find myself at such cross-purposes with the modern world: I have been a converted Pagan living among…

— C.S. Lewis

When we no longer hold people responsible for their choices, civility and common sense will be diminished.

— Anonymous