Civilized Quote by Peter Schjeldahl

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

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

deferring gratification is a good definition of being civilized.

— Bernice Fitz-Gibbon

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

Isn’t that what it means to be civilized? That you can wait to get what you want?

— Orson Scott Card

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

— Ursula Parrott

I like things that are civilized.

— Martha Plimpton

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

— Tennessee Williams

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

One difference between savagery and civilization is a little courtesy. There's no telling what a lot of courtesy would do.

— Cullen Hightower

With the "civilized" person contentment is a myth. From the cradle to the grave they are forever longing and striving after something better, an…

— William Matthews