Top 23 English Civilization Quotes
#1. English civilization the humanizing, the bringing into one harmonious and truly humane life, of the whole body of English society that is what interests me.
Matthew Arnold
#2. Spanish civilization crushed the Indian. English civilization scorned and neglected him. French civilization embraced and cherished him.
Francis Parkman
#3. And so it's interesting to remember that when Mahatma Gandhi, the father of an earlier freedom movement, came to England and was asked what he thought of English civilization, he replied: 'I think it would be a good idea.
Salman Rushdie
#4. English civilization rests largely upon tea and cricket, with mighty spurts of enjoyment on Derby Day, and at Newmarket.
Agnes Repplier
#5. It is impossible," I concluded, "to find any satisfaction in the thought of 25,000 slaughtered Germans, left to mutilation and decay; the destruction of men as though beasts, whether they be English, French, German or anything else, seems a crime to the whole march of civilization.
Vera Brittain
#6. National Lampoon lost its audience when it went from monthly magazine to bimonthly to quarterly to annual to just making movies.
Ricky Van Veen
#7. The sole constitutional office of language being to express our ideas and sentiments, it becomes more and more perfect and useful, the more effectually it subserves this sole end of its creation.
Orson Squire Fowler
#8. Enlarged sympathy with children was one of the chief contributions made by the Victorian English to real civilization.
George Macaulay Trevelyan
#10. The future of English fiction may rest with this Unknown Public - a reading public of three millions which lies right out of the pale of true literary civilization - which is now waiting to be taught the difference between a good book and a bad.
Wilkie Collins
#11. Wal-Mart is an amazing success story. What I particularly admire very much about the late Sam Walton was his policy of valuing his employees. Giving value to employees is very rare in the retail industry. I also admire the strategies Walton used to build up his discount store concept.
Tadashi Yanai
#12. Encyclopedia-selling was known to be the last resort of the feckless, the inept, and the desperate
Margaret Atwood
#13. Civilization is not an incurable disease, but it should never be forgotten that the English people are at present afflicted by it.
Mahatma Gandhi
#14. They have been taught to labor," the Chicago Tribune editorialized in 1891. "They have been taught Christian civilization, and to speak the noble English language instead of some African gibberish. The account is square with the ex-slaves.
Anonymous
#15. France has the least social mobility of any developed country. The social elevator no longer works. It's broken.
Xavier Niel
#16. The true mark of English conversation is not being able to tell when you've been insulted. I think the more sophisticated society becomes, the more it hides behind the masks it manufactures.
Christopher Fowler
#17. The keynote of American civilization is a sort of warm-hearted vulgarity. The Americans have none of the irony of the English, none of their cool poise, none of their manner. But they do have friendliness. Where an Englishman would give you his card, an American would very likely give you his shirt.
Raymond Chandler
#18. I want to be a good creature for reasons beyond sharing a life with a good man.
Chris Adrian
#19. I began visiting Lima's prisons back in 2007, when my first novel, 'Lost City Radio,' was published in Peru.
Daniel Alarcon
#20. What do women want? To be treated like a queen;
but by a king, not a pawn.
James Robison
#21. I fancy it must be the quantity of animal food eaten by the English which renders their character insusceptible to civilization. I suspect it is in their kitchens and not in their churches that the reformation must be worked.
Thomas Jefferson
#22. Our non-co-operation is with the system the English have established in India, with the material civilization and its attendant greed and exploitation of the weak.
Mahatma Gandhi
#23. Civilization - a heap of rubble scavenged by scrawny English Lit. vultures.
Malcolm Muggeridge
