Quotes About Civility

I don't believe in public humiliation. It went out with the stocks.

Just because you have a mouth and nobody is stopping you, you can't say whatever you want.

But they who give straight judgements to strangers and to those of the land and do not transgress what is just, for them the city flourishes and its people prosper.

He was glad to see the Member of Parliament, Mr. Foot, though...

C'è un discorso che Gandhi fa nel 1909 in cui si guarda attorno e si chiede «Cos'è la vera civiltà? La civiltà nasce da un tipo di comportamento che indica all'uomo il sentiero del dovere [...], l'osservanza della moralità. Raggiungere la moralità significa raggiungere la padronanza della nostra mente e delle nostre passioni».

When members of this House use inflammatory language, use offensive language, it does not help the process. It is beneath the dignity of this body and this country.

When you look at every government, they're our elected officials, and you have to have some form of respect for them.

It's not okay to lie about people and particularly not okay to hurl the worst imaginable names at people just because you think you might not like their politics.

I have been known for my courtesy on and off the bench.

Lady Bracknell.  Good afternoon, dear Algernon, I hope you are behaving very well. Algernon.  I'm feeling very well, Aunt Augusta. Lady Bracknell.  That's not quite the same thing.  In fact the two things rarely go together. 

Good manners without sincerity are like a beautiful dead lady," he remarked on suitable occasion. "Straightforwardness without civility is like a surgeon's knife, effective but unpleasant. Candor with courtesy is helpful and admirable.

Good manners without sincerity are like a beautiful dead lady, he remarked on suitable occasion. Straightforwardness without civility is like a surgeon's knife, effective but unpleasant. Candor with courtesy is helpful and admirable.

Good manners without sincerity are like a beautiful dead lady," he remarked on suitable occasion. "Straightforwardness without civility is like a surgeon's knife, effective but unpleasant. Candour with courtesy is helpful and admirable.

Straightforwardness without civility is like a surgeon's knife, effective but unpleasant.

Good manners without sincerity are like a beautiful dead lady," he remarked on a suitable occasion. "Straightforwardness without civility is like a surgeon's knife, effective but unpleasant. Candour with courtesy is helpful and admirable.

Ultimately, 'how's it going?' is the most futile and the most profound of questions. To answer it precisely, one would have to make a scrupulous inventory of one's psyche, considering each aspect in detail. No matter: we have to say 'fine' out of politeness and civility and change the subject, or else ruminate the question during our whole lives and reserve our reply for afterward.

Su mala educación sólo es superada por su mala educación".

Fortunately for you, we British judge man's civility not by his compassion for his friends, but by his compassion for his enemies

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

The only way you approach politics and seek elective office is to move forward. For me to look back in anger or with any rancor would be a mistake.

The little that he had said, thus far, had been sufficient to convince me that I was speaking to a gentleman. He had what I may venture to describe as the unsought self-possession, which is a sure sign of good breeding, not in England only, but everywhere else in the civilized world.

All well bred persons lie – Besides, you are a woman; you must never speak what you think…

We're not savages. We're English.

Sheer human decency and civility are two of the most important contributions to our community life that women of courage can make.