Differ Quote by Benjamin Franklin

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

— Benjamin Franklin

We're not savages. We're English.

— William Golding

One difference between savagery and civilization is a little courtesy. There's no telling what a lot of courtesy would do.

— Cullen Hightower

It is in refinement and elegance that the civilized man differs from the savage.

— Samuel Johnson

We've got to have rules and obey them. After all, we're not savages. We're English, and the English are best at everything.

— William Golding

I do not believe, from what I have been told about this people, that there is anything barbarous or savage about them, except that…

— Michel de Montaigne

We are all civilized people, wich means that we are all savages at heart but observing a few amenities of civilized behaviour.

— Tennessee Williams

Savage peoples are ruled by passion, civilized peoples by the mind. The difference lies not in the respective natures of savagery and civilization, but…

— Carl von Clausewitz

Civilized men are more discourteous than savages because they know they can be impolite without having their skulls split, as a general thing.

— Robert E. Howard

We're very girly, but at the same time, we're very savage too.

— Rose

Their manners are more gentle, kind, than of Our human generation you shall find.

— William Shakespeare

Manners are the ornament of action.

— Samuel Smiles