Civilized Quote by Sharon Olds

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

— Samuel Johnson

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

— Tennessee Williams

There is a vast difference between the savage and the civilized man, but it is never apparent to their wives until after breakfast.

— Helen Rowland

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

What is marriage but the renunciation of unchastity? The savage does not marry. Man marries because he renounces.

— Swami Vivekananda

Marriage is the beginning and pinnacle of civilization.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

We are not a civilized country if we can read in a newspaper what a lady tells her boyfriend or husband.

— Silvio Berlusconi

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

Marriage is the best compromise between nature and culture.

— Thiruman Archunan

Savages we call them, because their manners differ from ours, which we think the perfection of civility; they think the same of theirs.

— Benjamin Franklin

I'm sure we can talk things out like civilized people.

— John Wayne

The civilized man is a larger mind but a more imperfect nature than the savage.

— Margaret Fuller