Quotes About Civility

I never learned to say shit before a lady. I don't believe in progress in quite the way you seem to. You believe in it more than Grandmother did. As for those purely cultural patterns of convention you think I ought to escape from, they happen to add up to civilization, and I'd rather be civilized than tribal or uncouth.

Humans exist but humanity doesn't.

Don't be a dick

Wil Wheaton Says: Don't be a dick.

Etiquette, or dog in the original Coptic, means behaving yourself a little better than is absolutely essential.

Civility is for divorced couples with children. – Chiara

But, most important, we must not become as base and treacherous as our enemies.

El tiempo de los violentos ya se acabo ... y ahora es nuestro tiempo, el de la gente civil, el de la gente que quiere construir paz pero con firmeza. Somos suaves y dulces, pacificos y manzos, pero firmes hasta las ultimas consecuencias. Por eso hemos ganado sobre los violentos. Por eso ganaremos sobre la gente que no sabe dialogar. Hemos perdido el miedo desde hace muchos anos, porque nos atenazo demasiado. Animo ... fuerza.

I never let my politics supersede my manners.

I think almost every writer in the world would hope that books would be always talked about with respect and civility and depth and seriousness.

In religious matters a traveller loses nothing by civility.

I come from a profession which has suffered greatly because of the lack of civility. Lawyers treat each other poorly and it has come home to haunt them. The public will not tolerate a lack of civility.

Some people don't respond to civility.

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.

A husband should not insult his wife publicly, at parties. He should insult her in the privacy of the home.

as skilled a dissembler as I was, I could barely be civil to him;

Civility's nearly as dull as sobriety and I cannot—will not—be labelled dull. I have peper and piones, and a pound of garlik; a ferthing-worth of fenel-seed for fasting dayes, but dullness have I none: nor am I overfond of being discussed.

Kibbencook was not a hotbed of radicalism, and even antiwar marches were organized with a certain decorum. It was a thoroughly suburban protest.

You must always be polite to people whose position forbids them to be rude to you.

But I really think that if we don't start caring about whether people tell the truth or not, it's going to be literally impossible to restore anything approaching a reasonable political discourse. Politicians have always shaded the truth. But if you can say something that is provably false, and no one cares, then you can't have a real debate about anything. I

What matters at this stage is the construction of local forms of community within which civility and the intellectual and moral life can be sustained through the new dark ages which are already upon us. And if the tradition of the virtues was able to survive the horrors of the last dark ages, we are not entirely without ground for hope. This time however the barbarians are not waiting beyond the frontiers; they have already been governing us for quite some time.

I get along very well with Paul Ryan personally. We have very deep differences on policy issues. But we express them civilly.

Civilization is the making of civil persons.

Britons are very respectful - if they want to take a photo, they ask politely.