"Some people don’t respond to civility." — James Ellroy

More Civility Quotes

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• Politeness and civility are the best capital ever invested in business. Large stores, gilt signs, flaming advertisements, will all prove… — P T Barnum
• That survival instinct, that will to live, that need to get back to life again, is more powerful than any… — 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… — Richard Carmona
• Women, who are a majority of the peoples of the earth, are indispensable to the accumulation of the kind of… — 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… — Francis Bacon
• A drunkard is the annoyance of modesty, the trouble of civility, the spoil of wealth, the distraction of reason. He… — 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… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
• The civility of no race can be perfect whilst another race is degraded. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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