Average Quote by Mark Twain

Difference between savage and civilized man: one is painted, the other gilded.

— Mark Twain

It is in refinement and elegance that the civilized man differs from the savage.

— Samuel Johnson

The civilized man is a more experienced and wiser savage.

— Henry David Thoreau

Civilized men are more discourteous than savages because they know they can be impolite without having their skulls split, as a general thing.

— Robert E. Howard

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

Savage peoples are ruled by passion, civilized peoples by the mind. The difference lies not in the respective natures of savagery and civilization, but…

— Carl von Clausewitz

Compared with this simple, fibrous life, our civilized history appears the chronicle of debility, of fashion, and the arts of luxury. But the civilized…

— Henry David Thoreau

Civilization is only savagery silver-gilt.

— H. Rider Haggard

The greater intellect one has, the more originality one finds in men. Ordinary persons find no difference between men.

— Blaise Pascal

According to man's environment, society has made as many different types of men as there are varieties in zoology. The differences between a soldier,…

— Honore de Balzac

Gold is good in its place; but loving, brave, patriotic men are better than gold.

— Abraham Lincoln

But there's this one difference: one is gold put to the use of paving-stones, and the other is tin polished to ape a service…

— Emily Bronte