Civilized Quote by Ursula Parrott

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

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

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

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

— Jean Kerr

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

— Tennessee Williams

deferring gratification is a good definition of being civilized.

— Bernice Fitz-Gibbon

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

— Orson Scott Card

A civilized man is one who will give a serious answer to a serious question. Civilization itself is a certain sane balance of values.

— Ezra Pound

“As a result of that confined distribution, peoples who pride themselves on being civilized have always viewed writing as the sharpest distinction raising them…

— Jared Diamond

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

— Derek Landy

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