Elsewhere Quote by Edmund Wilson

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

Civility is not simply about manners.

— Jim Leach

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

Civility is a desire to receive civilities, and to be accounted well-bred.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

The English are busy folk; they have no time in which to be polite.

— Baron de Montesquieu

Manners are the basic building blocks of civil society.

— Alexander McCall Smith

Civility is the art and act of caring for others.

— Deborah King

Civility is the natural state for people who know how limited their own individual powers are and know, too, that they need the conversation.

— David Brooks

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

Civility is the recognition that all people have dignity that's inherent to their person, no matter their religion, race, gender, sexuality, or ability.

— Opal Tometi

We were wrong when we defined 'civility' as saying the wrong things the right way.

— Karine Jean-Pierre

I appreciate people who are civil, whether they mean it or not. I think: Be civil. Do not cherish your opinion over my feelings.…

— Richard Greenberg