Civilised Quote by Michael Bond Download Open image “I have a flat in Paris and go there a lot, but the Eurostar's much more civilised than flying.” — Michael Bond ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.8 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Civilised Flat Flats Flying Go Lot More Much Paris Than
Paris may be expensive but I love it. It's the one place to spend money and enjoy. — Lester Persky Copy Share Image
When I traveled professionally in Europe, I would inevitably spend a weekend at the Hotel Costes around the corner from the Place Vendome in… — Amor Towles Copy Share Image
My first Eurotrip, I want to fly into London and take a train to all the traditional must-see cities. — Scott Michael Foster Copy Share Image
I feel like I have to go back to Paris every so often. It just grows on you - the look of the city,… — Peter Dundas Copy Share Image
Paris is a really nice city. My family has felt very good here from the first day they arrived. That makes it a lot… — Angel Di Maria Copy Share Image
I was a football fan, a kid who loved football and when you are a kid from Paris there are only two stadiums -… — Kylian Mbappe Copy Share Image
I love Paris, just to stay there and visit. Maybe I'll live there one day. — Simona Halep Copy Share Image
When you live in a small town in the Ukraine, you definitely want to go to Paris. — Olga Kurylenko Copy Share Image
Paddington Bear was a refugee with a label - 'Please look after this bear. Thank you', and he had a little suitcase. — Michael Bond Copy Share Image
Every small boy wanted to be a steam engine driver when they grew up in the old days, including me. There's something very special… — Michael Bond Copy Share Image
In 1941, the BBC was setting up local, low-powered transmitters that were switched off if there was an air raid so they couldn't be… — Michael Bond Copy Share Image
The great advantage of having a bear as a central character is that he can combine the innocence of a child with the sophistication… — Michael Bond Copy Share Image
After the war, I went to the BBC monitoring service in Caversham, a suburb of Reading. It was a big aerial system to listen… — Michael Bond Copy Share Image
My daughter Karen was born in 1958, the year my first Paddington book came out, so she grew up with him. — Michael Bond Copy Share Image
As a cameraman, I was paid to stand within a few feet of Yehudi Menuhin performing. I saw Rudolph Nureyev dancing. I couldn't believe… — Michael Bond Copy Share Image
I worked on 'Blue Peter' and 'Tonight' and lots of TV plays, filmed people like Rudolf Nureyev and Ted Heath, and ended up a… — Michael Bond Copy Share Image
Even today to be civilised is held to be synonymous with being westernised. Advanced countries devote large resources to formulating and spreading ideas and… — Indira Gandhi Copy Share Image
On this waterlogged landscape…are scattered palaces and hovels…It is here that the human spirit becomes perfect, and at the same time brutalised, that civilisation… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
When we get civilised, I believe children will go by number until they get old enough to choose their own names. — Myrtle Reed Copy Share Image
This extraordinary metal, the soul of every manufacture, and the mainspring perhaps of civilised society. Of iron. — Samuel Smiles Copy Share Image
The civilised cultures are the most cruel. It's the same with education - often it breeds sadistic forms of cruelty. — Nellie McKay Copy Share Image
This generation may either be the last to exist in any semblance of a civilised world or that it will be the first to… — Richard St. Barbe Baker Copy Share Image
Bombing is not especially inhumane. War itself is inhumane and the bombing plane, which is used to paralyse industry and transport, is a relatively… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
I suffered most inconvenience from the difficulty of getting news from the civilised world down river, from the irregularity of receipt of letters, parcels… — Henry Walter Bates Copy Share Image
Architecture, sculpture, painting, music, and poetry, may truly be called the efflorescence of civilised life. — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
You get the feeling that many of my guests feel that the French language gives them entry into a more cultivated, more intelligent world,… — Bernard Pivot Copy Share Image
All civilised countries should unite in the fight against international terrorism. — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
The true savage is a slave, and is always talking about what he must do; the true civilised man is a free man, and… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image