Civilised Quote by Robert Jackson Bennett

“I am civilised. My feelings are not.”

— Jeanette Winterson

“Civilsation is the sleight of hand that conceals our natures from ourselves.”

— Salman Rushdie

“I’m sophisticated, charming, suave and debonair, Professor. But I have never claimed to be civilised.”

— Derek Landy

“There's precious little reform in the human race.”

— Stephen King

“Civility is not what we do because we agree with one another. It is what we do because we belong to one another.”

— Diane Kalen-Sukra

“It’s complicated.” “Yeah? Welcome to Earth. Everything here is complicated.”

— Charles Martin

“Civilisation isn't a thing that you build and then there it is, you have it forever. It needs to be built constantly, recreated daily.…

— Steven Galloway

“Now it’s complicated.”

— Jamie McGuire

“Simple is complicated.”

— HEDoffice

“Civilisation, after all, is defined by what we forbid, more than what we permit.”

— Gregory David Roberts

“As civilisation advances, so does indifference.”

— Matt Haig

“With people like that we needn't despair of civilisation,”

— John Dos Passos