Civilized Quote by Cyril Connolly

to be civilized is to be incapable of giving unnecessary offense, it is to have some quality of consideration for all who cross our…

— Agnes Repplier

I'm not so sure it's so civilized to be civilized all the time.

— Jean Kerr

To be civilized is to be potentially master of all possible ideas, and that means that one has got beyond being shocked, although one…

— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr

A civilized man is one who will give a serious answer to a serious question. Civilization itself is a certain sane balance of values.

— Ezra Pound

Until civil rights are enjoyed by all of us, we're simply not civilized.

— Rupert Friend

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

— Tennessee Williams

Being civilized means that one keeps one's words unrelated to one's thoughts, when necessary.

— Ursula Parrott

The civilized man is a more experienced and wiser savage.

— Henry David Thoreau

Still how unenlightened and ignorant are the very nations we term civilized!

— Jean-Baptiste Say

I'm sophisticated, charming, suave, and debonair, Professor. But I have never claimed to be civilized.

— Derek Landy

I consider that there are different degrees of civilization and there are many different ways of expressing it. But one is civilized or is…

— Flora Lewis

“Civilized people must, I believe, satisfy the following criteria: 1) They respect human beings as individuals and are therefore always tolerant, gentle, courteous and…

— Anton Chekhov