Quotes About Civility

Don't fling your butt beside the trail and we won't fling your butt in jail.

Every old man complains of the growing depravity of the world, of the petulance and insolence of the rising generation. He recounts the decency and regularity of former times, and celebrates the discipline and sobriety of the age in which his youth was passed; a happy age which is now no more to be expected, since confusion has broken in upon the world, and thrown down all the boundaries of civility and reverence.

Though he was her enemy, he treated her with unfailing courtesy.

Some of us love hockey not just for its ferocity and skill but for its underlying code of civility off the ice.

It's so unfortunate because people have become so comfortable being mean.

Politeness is the first thing people lose once they get the power.

The time when freedom is no longer held in the highest regard is not during times of want or suffering, but during the era of civility, pleasure, and wealth.

We are civilized animals doing uncivilized things.

If a Democrat took Republicans on rudely, they wouldn't be elevated in the Democratic Party. There's a different standard. We're supposed to be polite to people.

I think standing up for facts and decency is important, and we should've done more of it back in 2015 and 2016.

T stands for being nice. T stands for manners. T stands for being polite.

Bore: a man who is never unintentionally rude.

A gallant man is above ill words.

No man who is in a hurry is quite civilised.

Courtesy is the due of man to man; not of suit-of-clothes to suit-of-clothes.

There is honor between bitches

Politeness [is] a sign of dignity, not subservience.

The most practical kind of politics is the politics of Decency.

I have not one shred of anger in my heart against Netanyahu or his wife.

I respect Demetrious Johnson. I respect him as a human being. He always acts like a professional, he's a nice guy, but that still doesn't mean that I can't say that he's scared to fight me.

If you're not a nice person, don't call.

The language has changed. When I grew up and watched the campaigns of John Kennedy, even with Richard Nixon, there was a lot higher level of civility. Now we describe a disagreement as an attack.

There's no excuse for rudeness.

It's not a matter of jealousy. It's a matter of courtesy.