Civilisation Quote by Hanif Kureishi

“Civilsation is the sleight of hand that conceals our natures from ourselves.”

— Salman Rushdie

“That was progress, right there. Except no one would ever know how hard I was working to keep my temper under control, because the…

— Cat Clarke

“The peculiarity of ill temper is that it is the vice of the virtuous.”

— Henry Drummond

“I have been quite put out of temper this morning and someone ought to die for it.”

— Susanna Clarke

If a person doesn't govern his temper, his temper will govern him.

— John C. Maxwell

“There's steel in this man that no one has taken the temper out of...”

— Frank Herbert

“Civilisation, after all, is defined by what we forbid, more than what we permit.”

— Gregory David Roberts

“Yeah. I have a temper. But it’s one I’ve learned to control. Really? Really. How do you figure? You’re still standing, aren’t you?”

— Lynette Eason

“All defensiveness stems from the need to be right and frustration over not being able to control others.”

— Bryant McGill

“If you lose your temper, you lose!”

— Richard Diaz

“In the history of the world, telling someone to ‘calm down’ has never done anything but piss them off more.”

— Sarah Beth Durst

“I am not what you call a civilised man! I have done with society entirely, for reasons which I alone have the right of…

— Jules Verne