Top 100 Quotes About Civility
#2. You ultimately judge the civility of a society not by how it treats the rich, the powerful, the protected and the highly esteemed, but by how it treats the poor, the disfavored and the disadvantaged ...
Bryan Stevenson
#3. That character in conversation which commonly passes for agreeable is made up of civility and falsehood.
Alexander Pope
#4. When people complain of the decay of manners they have in mind not the impudent abbreviations of the crowd, but the decline in bowing and scraping and in speaking of one's employer as "the master." What the rich mean by the good manners of the poor is usually not civility, but servility.
Robert Wilson Lynd
#5. Enjoying praise is in some people merely a civility of the heart
and just the opposite of a vanity of the spirit.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#6. Okay, I cannot say this without being very direct. If you are looking for a spouse or even a romance through social media, you are looking for trouble.
John Patrick Hickey
#7. Civility is only a passenger - not a driver - on the information superhighway.
Don Rittner
#8. Posting something that is encouraging and well done compared to something that is trashy and common is the difference between eating a fine meal or the scraps from making that meal.
John Patrick Hickey
#9. I know no religion that destroys courtesy, civility, and kindness.
William Penn
#10. Southerners have many fine qualities, charm and civility among them, and a sense of the tragic ...
Dean Koontz
#11. After our ages-long journey from savagery to civility, let's hope we haven't bought a round-trip ticket.
Cullen Hightower
#12. The fact is, that you were sick of civility, of deference, of officious attention. You were disgusted with the women who were always speaking, and looking, and thinking for your approbation alone.
Jane Austen
#13. I see good ideas on the Republican side as well as the Democratic side. You have to return civility and statesmanship to governance. If you don't do that, it doesn't matter what portfolio of issue you're pushing, nothing is going to get done.
Richard Carmona
#14. You never see the old austerity That was the essence of civility; Young people hereabouts, unbridled, now Just want.
Moliere
#15. If that thy fame with ev'ry toy be pos'd, 'Tis a thin web, which poysonous fancies make; But the great souldier's honour was compos'd Of thicker stuf, which would endure a shake. Wisdom picks friends; civility plays the rest; A toy shunn'd cleanly passeth with the best.
George Herbert
#16. I believe in civility. But it is not a requirement of civility to pretend there is no war.
J. Budziszewski
#17. Civility is a charm that attracts the love of all men.
George Horne
#18. Today we affirm a new commitment to live out our nation's promise through civility, courage, compassion and character.
George W. Bush
#19. They parted at last with mutual civility, and possibly a mutual desire of never meeting again.
Jane Austen
#20. It is contrary to the usual practice of professional men to give their opinions upon each other's work unless regularly called upon in the way of their profession.
John Smeaton
#21. All he asked of her was basic civility and an ounce of propriety, but she was like one of her sea creatures, goaded by the slightest disturbance into puffing up and flashing warning colors.
Shipstead, Maggie
#22. If I had to name the biggest difference between Bhutan and the rest of the world, I could do it in one word, civility.
Linda Leaming
#23. ....a crucial measure of our success in life is the way we treat one another every day of our lives.
P. M. Forni
#24. Divorce is not easy, but if you genuinely put your kids first, that dictates the civility you should show each other. What example are you otherwise?
Dawn French
#25. Civility is not a tactic or a sentiment. It is the determined choice of trust over cynicism, of community over chaos.
George W. Bush
#26. We have gotten so use to humor being something nasty and offensive that we started to believe that was the only way to get a laugh.
John Patrick Hickey
#27. The great thing about civility is that it does not require you to agree with or approve of anything. You don't even have to love your neighbor to be civil. You just have to treat your neighbor the same way you would like your neighbor to treat your grandmother, or your child.
Barbara Brown Taylor
#28. The civility which money will purchase, is rarely extended to those who have none.
Charles Dickens
#29. Civility (sabhyata,) is the sign of one with the right belief (enlightened view, samkit) and etiquette is the sign of one with a wrong belief (deluded view, bhranti).
Dada Bhagwan
#30. The highest proof of civility is that the whole public action of the State is directed on securing the greatest good of the greatest number.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#32. Crime must be brought under control ... Freedom without civility, freedom without the ability to live in peace, was not true freedom at all.
Nelson Mandela
#33. Don't ever forget that you're a citizen of this world, and there are things you can do to lift the human spirit, things that are easy, things that are free, things that you can do every day. Civility, respect, kindness, character.
Aaron Sorkin
#34. You don't have to prove confidence; when you have it, it'll show.
Real confidence is quiet, tactful, civil, and humble.
Rosalinda Oropeza Randall
#35. I know it's sappy, but I bet there's a market for civility and niceness out there that, while probably not as titillating as a junkyard scrap between shirtless adversaries, it'd sure be healthier.
Steven Weber
#36. Civility, it is said, means obeying the unenforceable.
Ellen Goodman
#37. I believe that when a person has hope in the future, believe in their ability to achieve and understand that God made them for a purpose, then they will, in the end, and achieve great things.
John Patrick Hickey
#38. Let's all commit ourselves to the basic civility of minding our own business. Failing that, let's go back to a time when we were nasty and judgmental, but only behind one another's backs.
Ayelet Waldman
#39. Remember this, posting pictures are like speaking words, you cannot take them back.
John Patrick Hickey
#40. Katie preferred honesty, even at the expense of civility. She longed to have everything in the open.
Erika Johansen
#42. I am the eternal optimist. I think that, over time, people respond to civility and
and rational argument.
Barack Obama
#44. if a being has sufficient sense of justice and civility to know it has done wrong, knowing it has done wrong is often sufficient punishment. If the being has no remorse, punishment will only increase its anger.
Sheri S. Tepper
#45. Rioting begets violence begets rioting. I sometimes think the entire human race is comprised of barely restrained animals, avid for any excuse to tear off their masks of civility. And here I am, always trying desperately to keep mine on.
Karen Marie Moning
#47. Gratitude is the beginning of civility, of decency and goodness, of a recognition that we cannot afford to be arrogant. We should walk with the knowledge that we will need help every step of the way.
Gordon B. Hinckley
#48. It is so much easier to extol the virtues of civility than to talk civilly about the virtues we need to uphold.
Amitai Etzioni
#49. Civility is the natural state for people who know how limited their own individual powers are and know, too, that they need the conversation.
David Brooks
#50. Everyone was in a hurry. Everyone was out for themselves. No one gave a shit about anyone else. Long ago, kindness, courtesy, and civility had taken a hike.
Kristen Ashley
#51. She smiled then, an adorable, sweet smile that took his breath away. He forgot all about trying to maintain an air of civility. His inner caveman came barreling out, grunting and pounding his chest and muttering unintelligible words.
Maya Banks
#52. That is why I often find myself at such cross-purposes with the modern world: I have been a converted Pagan living among apostate Puritans.
C.S. Lewis
#53. Words have meaning beyond the obvious. Words have consequences beyond intentions. Civil words align risk and reward of such unknowns.
John R. Dallas Jr.
#54. Perhaps the summary of good-breeding may be reduced to this rule. "Behave unto all men as you would they should behave unto you." This will most certainly oblige us to treat all mankind with the utmost civility and respect, there being nothing that we desire more than to be treated so by them.
Henry Fielding
#55. A society that is controlled by an elite minority group who use the population as a food source, will never know civility
Alejandro C. Estrada
#56. People who expect deference resent mere civility.
Mason Cooley
#58. Good manners is just being respectful of others. Whether you know them or not, you should show respect for all people.
John Patrick Hickey
#59. Keep the personal, personal and do not be guilty of spreading bad feelings.
John Patrick Hickey
#60. You strip away every ounce of civility in me, Selene" - Levi
Katie Reus
#61. That survival instinct, that will to live, that need to get back to life again, is more powerful than any consideration of taste, decency, politeness, manners, civility. Anything. It's such a powerful force.
Danny Boyle
#62. By no means do I think that playing games online is wrong or rude. However, constantly sending requests is an act of bad manners as well as being very annoying to the one receiving them.
John Patrick Hickey
#63. And I do not want anymore to be useful, to be docile, to lead / children out of the fields into the text / of civility, to teach them that they are (they are not) better than the grass.
Mary Oliver
#64. Among the arts of conversation no one pleases more than mutual deference or civility, which leads us to resign our own inclinations to those of our companions, and to curb and conceal that presumption and arrogance so natural to the human mind.
David Hume
#65. Every decision you ever make has its own consequences. Freedom is not the issue. You have freedom to do what you want, you just cannot do it and not pay the price for it.
John Patrick Hickey
#66. To be truly grateful for the kindness of other and to have those you love in your life is a great and powerful emotion.
John Patrick Hickey
#67. Civility is not simply about manners.
Jim Leach
#68. Be a blessing to all you are connecting with on social media. Encourage, rejoice and celebrate with each and every one. You will find that it will do wonders for your own attitude as well as those who may struggle with a negative mind-set.
John Patrick Hickey
#69. The arrangements that couples make in order to maintain civility in the midst of their journey to divorce are often most elaborate when the professed top priority is to protect a child.
John Irving
#70. Poverty is the test of civility and the touchstone of friendship.
William Hazlitt
#71. I loved England's gentility and its civility. I'm from the Bronx, with a Bronx accent. I love the beauty of its language, the ways it's spoken. I love the green grass of England and the flowers.
Sid Bernstein
#72. The civility of the world has reached that pitch that their more moral genius is becoming indispensable, and the quality of this race is to be honored for itself.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#73. Aspects of life here civility, courtesy, coziness have always bound Britons to their country ... They are part of the British myth, along with lovely countryside, dogs and horses, rose gardens, the Armada, the Battle of Britain.
R. W. Apple
#74. It is one of the important uses of civility to signify resentment.
Ambrose Bierce
#75. When you know you can do something, and you feel good about yourself, you do not have to devalue others.
John Patrick Hickey
#76. I work for Fox News as a commentator. I say whatever I want. I'm the blonde on the left, figuratively and literally - the one who's usually smiling because it's T.V., not the Supreme Court or Congress, and I find civility more effective in any event.
Susan Estrich
#77. Civility is not not saying negative or harsh things. It is not the absence of critical analysis. It is the manner in which we are sharing this territorial freedom of political discussion. If our discourse is yelled and screamed and interrupted and patronized, that's uncivil.
Richard Dreyfuss
#78. It is said that the hallmark of a gentleman is that he is only ever rude intentionally. Arthur Bryant was no gentleman. His rudeness came from an inability to cloak his opinions in even the most cursory civility. He believed in good manners at the meal table and bad manners almost everywhere else.
Christopher Fowler
#79. Martha Stewart contributes more to our civility than the Baptist church.
Dave Hickey
#80. Be egalitarian regarding persons. Be elitist regarding ideas.
Peter Kreeft
#81. When someone has wronged you, continue to treat them with civility. It's the ultimate mark of a mensch.
Bruna Martinuzzi
#82. I hope for an America where we can all contend freely and vigorously, but where we will treasure and guard those standards of civility which alone make this nation safe for both democracy and diversity.
Edward Kennedy
#83. The polarization of Congress; the decline of civility; and the rise of attack politics in the 1980s, the 1990s, and the early years of the new century are a blot on our political system and a disservice to the American people.
Edward Brooke
#84. She strove in vain against the echoing walls of their civility.
E. M. Forster
#85. The rules from those who are politically correct restrict what you can say to or about anything in our daily life. They tell you what to call others and what others can call you.
John Patrick Hickey
#86. I grew up in airports and on air bases. I know what flying and airports can be. And most airports make me feel like we're about three per cent better than ants. Especially U.S. airports. They're zoos. All civility is gone.
Douglas Coupland
#87. Years ago on my radio show, I used to say, 'I'm a conservative, but I'm not in a bad mood about it.' I've always believed that civility in heavy doses is essential in self-government.
Mike Pence
#88. Civility also requires relearning how to disagree without being disagreeable. Surely you can question my policies without questioning my faith or, for that matter, my citizenship.
Barack Obama
#89. We are losing sight of civility in government and politics. Debate and dialogue is taking a back seat to the politics of destruction and anger and control. Dogma has replaced thoughtful discussion between people of differing views.
James McGreevey
#90. Remember that people who seek to do evil can play hit and miss all they want. People who are seeking companionship online have to be right every time. Miss out on this one and the price could be very dear, even costing your life.
John Patrick Hickey
#91. I think the country's getting disgusted with Washington partly because of the decline of civility in government.
George McGovern
#92. We watch death and destruction on TV, in movies, over the news and online so much that it is just a part of our lives. It was never meant to be that way. In the end, we have paid a heavy price for our curiosity.
John Patrick Hickey
#93. [T]he politically correct are above the rules of ordinary civility, once they have identified you as an unbeliever in their religion.
Orson Scott Card
#95. Positive people on the other had are not those who deny what is going on around them for some pie-in-the-sky type of thinking. Positive people are very award of the problems, disasters and difficulties that are happening all around them. What they do not do is give into defeat.
John Patrick Hickey
#96. I have often seen people uncivil by too much civility, and tiresome in their courtesy.
Michel De Montaigne
#97. There can be no high civility without a deep morality, though it may not always call itself by that name.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#98. I didn't knowingly meet a conservative until, to my shame, I was 60 years old and sat down and said, 'Wow, I don't understand what this guy's talking about, but he has a great civility about him. Perhaps I better investigate this thing.'
David Mamet
#99. There is a certain ancient civility about tailors that is welcome - especially in modern London, which is now very much an international city, not an English city. They're still a little vessel of Englishness in what is otherwise a pretty rambunctious place.
Graydon Carter
#100. While it's true that Washington would benefit from more civility, the Senate, behind the scenes, is an extraordinarily collegial institution.
Jon Kyl
