Civility Quotes

127 quotes by 106 authors

Politeness and civility are the best capital ever invested in business. Large stores, gilt signs, flaming advertisements, will all prove unavailing if you or your… — P T Barnum
That survival instinct, that will to live, that need to get back to life again, is more powerful than any consideration of taste, decency, politeness,… — Danny Boyle
Today we affirm a new commitment to live out our nation's promise through civility, courage, compassion and character. — George W. Bush
I see good ideas on the Republican side as well as the Democratic side. You have to return civility and statesmanship to governance. If you… — Richard Carmona
Women, who are a majority of the peoples of the earth, are indispensable to the accumulation of the kind of social capital that is conducive… — Mahnaz Afkhami
Congratulations is the civility of envy. — Ambrose Bierce
God Almighty first planted a Garden. And indeed it is the purest of human pleasures. It is the greatest refreshment to the spirits of man,… — Francis Bacon
A drunkard is the annoyance of modesty, the trouble of civility, the spoil of wealth, the distraction of reason. He is the brewer's agent, the… — Thomas Adams
When once the forms of civility are violated, there remains little hope of return to kindness or decency. — Samuel Johnson
There can be no high civility without a deep morality, though it may not always call itself by that name. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
The highest proof of civility is that the whole public action of the State is directed on securing the greatest good of the greatest number. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
The civility of no race can be perfect whilst another race is degraded. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
People who expect deference resent mere civility. — Mason Cooley
I have often seen people uncivil by too much civility, and tiresome in their courtesy. — Michel de Montaigne
Civility is perhaps a quaint notion but civility in Parliament is something we should always strive to uphold. — Jay Weatherill
Aspire to decency. Practice civility toward one another. Admire and emulate ethical behavior wherever you find it. Apply a rigid standard of morality to your… — Ted Koppel
Every old man complains of the growing depravity of the world, of the petulance and insolence of the rising generation. He recounts the decency and… — Lyndon B. Johnson
Technology and production can be great benefactors of man, but they are mindless instruments, and if undirected they careen along with a momentum of their… — Charles A. Reich
Civility is not a tactic or a sentiment. It is the determined choice of trust over cynicism, of community over chaos. — George W. Bush
Marriage is treated by all civilized societies as a peculiar and favored contract. It is in its origin a contract of natural law . .… — Joseph Story

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