Best Civilised Sayings

77 Civilised quotes by 66 unique authors

Brits are far more intelligent and civilised than Americans. I love the fact that you can hail a taxi and just pick up your pram… — Gwyneth Paltrow
London is one of the most civilised places in the world for the procedure of making architecture and urban design. — Renzo Piano
The theoretical understanding of the world, which is the aim of philosophy, is not a matter of great practical importance to animals, or to savages,… — Bertrand Russell
Swedes are such a civilised, perfect society - at least on the surface. There's a great safety net, a huge middle class, free education, free… — Alexander Skarsgard
I was irrevocably betrothed to laughter, the sound of which has always seemed to me the most civilised music in the world. — Peter Ustinov
If no set of moral ideas were truer or better than any other, there would be no sense in preferring civilised morality to savage morality. — C.S. Lewis
Civilised life, you know, is based on a huge number of illusions in which we all collaborate willingly. The trouble is we forget after a… — J. G. Ballard
War was a hellish, horrible hideous thing - too horrible and hideous to happen in the twentieth century between civilised nations. — Lucy Maud Montgomery
A country is considered the more civilised the more the wisdom and efficiency of its laws hinder a weak man from becoming too weak and… — Primo Levi
I would like you to teach [the orcs] civilised behaviour," said Ladyship coldly. He appeared to consider this. "Yes of course, I think that would… — Terry Pratchett
Why are you not smarter? It's only the rich who can't afford to be smart. They're compromised. They got locked years ago into privilege. They… — Michael Ondaatje
At some future period, not very distant as measured by centuries, the civilised races of man will almost certainly exterminate and replace throughout the world… — Charles Darwin
Civilised my syphilised yarbles. — Anthony Burgess
I could show fight on natural selection having done and doing more for the progress of civilization than you seem inclined to admit. Remember what… — Charles Darwin
We in the House of Lords are never in touch with public opinion. That makes us a civilised body. — Oscar Wilde
Look at me!" I roar. "Do you think you'll be the first I've killed today? I wasn't a murderer, but you changed me. I'm a… — Darren Shan
There is something hugely civilised about allowing long pauses in a conversation. Very few people can stand that kind of silence. — James Robertson
I am much more passionate about cities than I am about nations. The competition between cities is more civilised than between nations. There is an… — Richard Rogers
I live in a post-Christian world in Oxford; it is quite rare to meet somebody who is religious in academic life now, and there is… — Richard Dawkins
The population of the U.S. is nearly 300 million, including many of the best educated, most talented, most resourceful, humane people on earth. By almost… — Richard Dawkins
To me you cannot be fully human, fully civilised, unless you recognise humanity in everyone. — Hillary Clinton
Suicide is possible, but not probable; hanging, I trust, is even more unlikely; for I hope that, by the time I die, my countrymen will… — Laurence Housman
The ancient Roman code belongs to a class of which almost every civilised nation in the world can show a sample, and which, so far… — Henry James Sumner Maine
As a civilised society, we have a duty to support those among us who are vulnerable and in need. When times are hard, that duty… — Justin Welby
Pretending is the basis of civilised society, and it is sometimes necessary for all of us. Without it we are nothing more than a pack… — Jeff Lindsay

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