Quotes About Civility

I lost something after Hailey died. I'm not sure what to call it, but it's the device that stops ypu from telling the truth when people ask you how you're doing, that vital valve that keeps you deeper, truer emotions under lock and key. I don't know exactly when I lost it, or how to get it back, but for now when it comes to tact, civility, and discretion, I'm an accident waiting to happen, over and over again. Socially, that makes me something of a liability.

As citizens we have to be more thoughtful and more educated and more informed. I turn on the TV and I see these grown people screaming at each other, and I think, well, if we don't get our civility back, we're in trouble.

England had decidedly turned its back on any expressions of what we might call serious Christian belief. Having led to so much division and violence, religion was now in full-scale retreat. The churches of mid-eighteenth-century England all but abandoned orthodox, historical Christianity and now preached a tepid kind of moralism that seemed to present civility and the preservation of the status quo as the summum bonnum.

Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, the eighteenth-century letter writer and biographer wrote: "Civility costs nothing and buys everything.

A city is one of the miracles of human existence. What prevents the human ant heap from degenerating into violence is civility, the spoken and unspoken codes that govern day-to-day interactions between people.

Be civil to all; sociable to many; familiar with few.

Be civil to all; sociable to many; familiar with few; friend to one; enemy to none.

He is not well bred, that cannot bear ill breeding in others.

130. Some are so Foolish as to interrupt and anticipate those that speak, instead of hearing and thinking before they answer; which is uncivil as well as silly.

We must not demonstrate any arrogance, and we must refrain from any irrational or undemocratic behavior.

I am ashamed to run against a lady. It's demeaning, very degrading. I have always refused to argue with a lady.

Italy should learn from the English system regarding security and civility.

We must reject the politics of meanness and contempt that increasingly dominate our airwaves and Internet.

If our Hindu culture forbids beef meat, does the same culture give you the right to abuse me and my family just because I have an opinion that you don't agree with?

People do not use foul language in the House of Commons chamber. They just don't do it, and I don't, either.

The popular European and American caricature of Afghans as wild, bloodthirsty men—a description that delighted Afghans themselves endlessly when they heard it—was contradicted by every direct contact I had with them. Face to face, Afghan men were generous, friendly, honest, and scrupulously courteous to me.

I think that the worst thing is realizing that mankind - that - that human beings can be so horrible to other human beings.

I'm very concerned about the tone of politics in recent years. We've seen a decline in civility and bipartisanship, and a rapid increase in hostility between those who have differing opinions. I think this has led to the alienation of the public in governance, which jeopardizes democratic participation.

We must demand a more civil tone and tenor in our politics.

It's too much to expect in an academic setting that we should all agree, but it is not too much to expect discipline and unvarying civility.

I have often seen people uncivil by too much civility, and tiresome in their courtesy.

Conferences at the top level are always courteous. Name-calling is left to the foreign ministers.

I have pretty thick skin. I've been in the arena a long time, and that means that I am not going to get down with [Donald Trump] and go insult for insult.

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