Civilized Quote by Jean Kerr Download Open image “I'm not so sure it's so civilized to be civilized all the time.” — Jean Kerr ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.6 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Civilized Time
The civilized are those who get more out of life than the uncivilized, and for this we are not likely to be forgiven. — Cyril Connolly Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Until civil rights are enjoyed by all of us, we're simply not civilized. — Rupert Friend Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I'm sophisticated, charming, suave, and debonair, Professor. But I have never claimed to be civilized. — Derek Landy Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
We are all civilized people, wich means that we are all savages at heart but observing a few amenities of civilized behaviour. — Tennessee Williams Copy Share Image
Perhaps only when people can enjoy their differences as a resource of cultural enrichment do they become truly civilized. — Herb Kawainui Kane Copy Share Image
Being civilized means that one keeps one's words unrelated to one's thoughts, when necessary. — Ursula Parrott Copy Share Image
It has been explained to me that toys are packaged in shards, to be assembled by the middle-aged and butter-fingered, because this makes it easier for the shippers. ... If they had to spend hours and hours putting handlebars onto bicycles ... they would repent their ways and deliver something that looked like a rocking horse and not like the… — Jean Kerr Copy Share
The average, healthy, well-adjusted adult gets up at seven-thirty in the morning feeling just plain terrible. — Jean Kerr Copy Share Image
Being divorced is like being hit by a Mack truck. If you live through it, you start looking very carefully to the right and… — Jean Kerr Copy Share Image
To me having a party is something like having a baby. The fact that you got through the last one alive is not somehow… — Jean Kerr Copy Share Image
Man is the only animal that learns by being hypocritical. He pretends to be polite and then, eventually, he becomes polite. — Jean Kerr Copy Share Image
Oh, wouldn't it be wonderful if some manufacturer would make a toy as tough, as staunch, as hard to crack open as the carton… — Jean Kerr Copy Share Image
“Oftentimes, in the evening after they have finished spreading the fertiliser, the writer and his wife sit on the fence - with a wonderful sense of "togetherness" - and listen to the magic symphony of the crickets. I can understand that. Around our house, we're pretty busy, and of course we're not the least bit integrated, but nevertheless my husband… — Jean Kerr Copy Share
Being on a ship is something like being pregnant. You can sit there and do absolutely nothing but stare at the water and have… — Jean Kerr Copy Share Image
Dearer to me than the evening star A Packard car A Hershey bar Or a bride in her rich adorning Dearer than any of… — Jean Kerr Copy Share Image
Don't be silly. I'm a mature, intelligent woman. Of course I'm afraid of my mother. — Jean Kerr Copy Share Image
Even though a number of people have tried, no one has ever found a way to drink for a living. — Jean Kerr Copy Share Image
That country [Carthage] was rapidly sinking into the state of barbarism from whence it had been raised by the Phoenician colonies and Roman laws;… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
Be neither too early in the fashion, nor too long out of it, nor too precisely in it; what custom hath civilized is become… — Francis Quarles Copy Share Image
Wine is one of the most civilized things in the world and one of the most natural things of the world that has been… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
Our guiding principle was that design is neither an intellectual nor a material affair, but simply an integral part of the stuff of life,… — Walter Gropius Copy Share Image
For it is an absurdity to call a country civilized in which a decent and industrious man, laboriously mastering a trade which is valuble… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
No people is wholly civilized where a distinction is drawn between stealing an office and stealing a purse. — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Mine was, as it were, the connecting link between wild and cultivated fields; as some states are civilized, and others half-civilized, and others savage… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The military mind is indeed a menace. Old-fashioned futurity that sees only men fighting and dying in smoke and fire; hears nothing more civilized… — Sean O'Casey Copy Share Image
As long as there are prisons, police, armies, navies; we are not civilized. When the Earth joins together and uses the Earth intelligently, that… — Jacque Fresco Copy Share Image
We're all intrigued, in our civilized world that we live in, and curious about how we would get on, on an undiscovered island that… — Tom Hiddleston Copy Share Image
When passions and appetites are stronger than the intellect, men are savages; when the intellect governs the passions, when the passions are servants, men… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
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