Quotes About Civility

Teaching civility is an obligation of the family.

You can't be truly rude until you understand good manners.

We can help restore the common good by striving for it and showing others it's worth the effort.

Rand, Nozick, and their more modern incarnations are dangerously wrong. Not only does the common good exist, but it is essential for a society to function. Without voluntary adherence to a set of common notions about right and wrong, daily life would be insufferable. We would be living in a jungle where only the strongest, cleverest, and most wary could hope to survive. This would not be a society. It wouldn't even be a civilization, because there would be no civility at its core.

Without voluntary adherence to a set of common notions about right and wrong, daily life would be insufferable. We would be living in a jungle where only the strongest, cleverest, and most wary could hope to survive. This would not be a society. It wouldn't even be a civilization, because there would be no civility at its core.

One thing you learn in a long marriage is how many sneezes to wait before saying, "Bless you."

Are you deaf as well as blind, woman? I'm not a carpet to walk over, and I distinctly heard myself speak. If I pinch your bottom, you can slap my face, but until I do, I expect a civil word for a civil word!

Small courtesies were the lubricant of daily life.

Being polite to a person is not a sign of respect for them, Pevara Sedai," Emarin said. "It is merely a sign of a good upbringing and a balanced nature.

If you want to be part of a human community you have to suffer fools—patiently, if not gladly—and you must practice civility as best you can.

Just awful," said Theodosia. Drayton faced Theodosia with sad eyes. "I agree. A gentleman should never resort to name-calling." "I meant the condos," Theodosia replied.

Mr. Knightley seemed to be trying not to smile; and succeeded without difficulty, upon Mrs. Elton's beginning to talk to him.

Good manners, Madam, are had these days not For your asking, nor mine, nor what-we-used-to-be's. The day is a loud grenade that bursts a smile Of serious weeds in a comic lily plot.

Civilized men are more discourteous than savages because they know they can be impolite without having their skulls split, as a general thing.

A healthy democracy requires a decent society; it requires that we are honorable, generous, tolerant and respectful.

The main point about civility is...the ability to interact with strangers without holding their strangeness against them and without pressing them to surrender it or to renounce some or all the traits that have made them strangers in the first place.

Public life is debased because it's only the nice people who are worried about imposing their views on others.

The closest she got to pretence was politeness.

Conversation is not dialogue, it's monologues. No one ever really listens in conversations. It's civility that makes you wait and pretend you give a fuck what the other person is saying.

We must recall the most important of humanity guidelines: Be polite. Being polite is possibly the greatest daily contribution everyone can make to life on Earth.

An armed society is a polite society. Manners are good when one may have to back up his acts with his life.

Only once in my life was I on the edge of incivility. I do not like to be unkind.

You can get through life with bad manners, but it's easier with good manners.

Civilization depends on, and civility often requires, the willingness to say, 'What you are doing is none of my business' and 'What I am doing is none of your business.'