Quotes About Civility

Republicans and Democrats spend so much time fighting and then they're all aghast, you know, and so it's just not the way we ought to be. The coarseness is not acceptable.

I pride myself on always displaying impeccable manners.

Martin breakfasted with Elizabeth and Nancy. The latter treated him with cold civility. As if he cared, Martin thought. Silly bitch—did she think he cared how she treated him?

You are insufferable, my lord, she seethed. He grinned as he held back her chair while she seated herself. Yes, my lady, I know, he said.

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.

Accepting a man's hospitality is a token of good will, a declaration that you and your host stand on terms of a civilized relationship.

Today no respectable public figure in the United States, Britain, or Western Europe can casually insult women or sling invidious stereotypes of other races or ethnic groups.

Another major change we have lived through is an intolerance of displays of force in everyday life. In earlier decades a man's willingness to use his fists in response to an insult was the sign of respectability.52 Today it is the sign of a boor, a symptom of impulse control disorder, a ticket to anger management therapy.

Ti dà fastidio se fumo?" Non rispondo perché non avrebbe importanza. Non puoi permettere che il tuo cane caghi sul marciapiede, ma è perfettamente accettabile soffiare sostanze cancerogene giù per la gola deglia altri. A un certo punto i fumatori si sono autoesentati dalle regole del contratto sociale.

A common civility to an impertinent fellow, often draws upon one a great many unforeseen troubles; and if one doth not take particular care, will be interpreted by him as an overture of friendship and intimacy.

Politeness is the flower of humanity.

The rule is, don't speak of the dead, not don't speak ill of the dead's terrible relatives.

The guy had no sense of decorum.

The Koran and the laws of all civilized nations legislate against the vilification of religions.

I sent my flowers across the hall to Mrs Nixon but her husband remembered what a Democrat I am and sent them back.

Good breeding differs, if at all, from high breeding only as it gracefully remembers the rights of others, rather than gracefully insists on its own rights.

I am deeply disappointed in the way President-elect Trump attacked Rep. John Lewis, a personal friend and hero to so many Americans.

I will not speak with disrespect of the Republican Party. I always speak with respect of the past.

I'm a Reagan Republican, which means I don't speak ill of other Republicans.

It used to be that Democrats and Republicans would disagree, but they could be social to each other. There were times during the year that we acted together in the good of the country.

I keep Reagan's 11th Commandment that I don't run down other Republicans.

One of the reasons I love the law is because I was raised in family - my grandfather was a lawyer, but more importantly, my grandmother was his secretary. And she taught me that lawyers were some of the most civil, most courteous - and in those days, most courtly - people that she knew.

Before she could put Paula in her place, a beautifully attired older woman standing near her said pointedly, "Miss July, please don't judge we Philadelphians by this graceless visitor from Memphis.

Politics doesn't have to be a raging fire, destroying everything in its path. Every disagreement doesn't have to be a cause for total war.