Aesthetic Quote by Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr

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

Being civilized means that one keeps one's words unrelated to one's thoughts, when necessary.

— Ursula Parrott

I'm not so sure it's so civilized to be civilized all the time.

— Jean Kerr

I'm sophisticated, charming, suave, and debonair, Professor. But I have never claimed to be civilized.

— Derek Landy

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

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

In my opinion, an individual without any love of the arts cannot be considered completely civilized.

— J. Paul Getty

Perhaps only when people can enjoy their differences as a resource of cultural enrichment do they become truly civilized.

— Herb Kawainui Kane

deferring gratification is a good definition of being civilized.

— Bernice Fitz-Gibbon

“Civilized" society is a hopeful belief and protest that science, money and goods make man count for more than any other animal. In this…

— Ernest Becker

We are all civilized people, wich means that we are all savages at heart but observing a few amenities of civilized behaviour.

— Tennessee Williams

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

— Samuel Johnson