Civilised Quote by Thomas Carlyle

Civilised life, you know, is based on a huge number of illusions in which we all collaborate willingly. The trouble is we forget after…

— Anonymous

“We now lay in towns, where nobody troubled us with questions; we had floated into civilised life, where people pass without salutation. ”

— Robert Louis Stevenson

If there was anything any Radchaai considered essential for civilised life, it was tea.

— Ann Leckie

The purpose of education is to fit us for life in a civilised community, and it seems to follow from the subjects we study…

— Anthony Burgess

I think the police are a major part of the glue that holds civilised life together. They're not highly paid.

— Peter James

Going to a restaurant is one of my keenest pleasures. Meeting someplace with old and new friends, ordering wine, eating food, surrounded by strangers,…

— Adam Gopnik

Architecture, sculpture, painting, music, and poetry, may truly be called the efflorescence of civilised life.

— Herbert Spencer

This we take it is the grand characteristic of our age. By our skill in Mechanism, it has come to pass, that in the…

— Thomas Carlyle

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

The civilised cultures are the most cruel. It's the same with education - often it breeds sadistic forms of cruelty.

— Nellie McKay

This extraordinary metal, the soul of every manufacture, and the mainspring perhaps of civilised society. Of iron.

— Samuel Smiles

When we get civilised, I believe children will go by number until they get old enough to choose their own names.

— Myrtle Reed

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

Civilised my syphilised yarbles.

— Anthony Burgess

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