Quotes About Civility

The really important thing, if a marriage is to go well, without much love, is very very great niceness— gentillesse —and very good manners.

Oh, this age! How tasteless and ill-bred it is.

No one is more insufferable than he who lacks basic courtesy.

All of us... anyone that's been in Fleetwood Mac, as far as I've been aware, has been seemingly pretty well brought up by their parents: not goody two-shoes - God knows we weren't - but there was a level of civility that the lads in the band were aware of, what is over the brink of decency.

Culture makes all men gentle.

I would not have had that happen to you. Discourtesy is unspeakably ugly to me.

Drinks here weren't free, but by way of real-life neighborhood civility they were cheap enough.

the clique, the caucus, and the conspiracy were as ineradicable features of civility as the council or the committee.

Canadians are very well behaved, they don't throw their food.

How can we, supercivilized out of almost all real emotion, develop the potential charm of this first glimpse of a new personality ?

The test of a man or woman's breeding is how they behave in a quarrel.

I do," he remembers the matronly lady saying. "You haven't missed much. She's such a greedy cunt." Wilson says he had a hard time keeping himself from spitting the soup out on the table. When he recovered, he said in his most courtly manner, "Baroness, I think you and I are going to have a lovely evening.

The first rule of etiquette a boy learns when he's about to enter society is that civility is due to all women. No provocation, no matter how unjust and rudely delivered, can validate a man who fails to treat a woman with anything less than utmost courtesy.

We are at our best when we serve others. Be civilized.

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.

The test of a man or woman's breeding is how they behave in a quarrel.

A moral, sensible, and well-bred man Will not affront me, and no other can.

Politeness is an inexpensive way of making friends.

A gentleman is man who can disagree without being disagreeable.

Propriety of manners and consideration for others are the two main characteristics of a gentleman.

There is no society or conversation to be kept up in the world without good nature, or something which must bear its appearance and supply its place. For this reason, mankind have been forced to invent a kind of artificial humanity, which is what we express by the word Good Breeding.

Two truths are all too often overshadowed in today's political discourse: Public service is a most honorable pursuit, and so is bipartisanship.

We have to stay away from the personal attacks. I think it turns off a lot of Canadians.

You should never read online comments if you want to keep thoughts above the belt.