Civility Quote by Adrienne Monnier

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

— Mahatma Gandhi

The German people are an orderly, vain, deeply sentimental and rather insensitive people. They seem to feel at their best when they are singing…

— H. G. Wells

It is the emotions to which one objects in Germany most of all.

— Franz Grillparzer

Civility is a work of the imagination, for it is through the imagination that we render others sufficiently like ourselves for them to become…

— Benjamin Barber

“At its heart, civility is the disposition of those who understand that we live together to flourish together—that the wellbeing of our neighbor is…

— Diane Kalen-Sukra

“Politeness can at once be the indifferent affliction of the ‘civilized’ as well as a subterfuge for the designed offence.”

— Vinod Pande

[The Germans] so easily confuse obstinacy with energy, and rudeness with firmness.

— Madame de Stael

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

— Michel de Montaigne

Tacitus has written an entire work on the manners of the Germans. This work is short, but it comes from the pen of Tacitus,…

— Tacitus

Civility is the art and act of caring for others.

— Deborah King

The Germans and Austrians are very polite, the Swiss are very reserved and the Spanish usually kiss me. The Brits write me letters.

— Donna Leon