Quotes About Civility

There's eight million people here pretending the others aren't getting on their nerves. I believe it's called civilization.

A positive workplace culture is built upon active civility among all employees and their colleagues, in words and in deeds. Another critical aspect of a positive workplace community is the active provision of social support, with people knowing they can turn to others for advice and help when they need it, and in turn providing that needed assistance to their colleagues. Mutual respect, responsiveness, and trust are essential for these mutually supporting behaviors to take place.

The sign orders flatly: COMMIT NO NUISANCE.

Politeness has been defined as love in trifles. Courtesy is said to be love in little things. And the one secret of politeness is to love.

I hope i shall never hav so much reputashun that i shan't feel obliged to be alwus civil.

Thare iz this mutch kan be sed in favour ov good-breeding, it iz the only thing that kan make a phool endurable.

Giv every one you meet, my boy, the time ov day and halff the road, and if that dont make him civil dont waste enny more fragrance on the cuss.

I rather admire the insolent civility ov a bull-tarrier, who only growls when i pass by him, but i never did like it in a man.

Thought for the Week "Refrain from littering the landscape with unkind, cynical, mean-spirited words, and you can return the world to a civility that was lost when human beings began deifying indiscriminant thoughts as if they were the truth." Leonard Perlmutter (Ram Lev)

Anyone can be a barbarian; it requires a terrible effort to remain a civilized man.

no matter how warm the relationship, there's always a certain etiquette when you deal with an in- law, a trace of formality.

True respect means taking other people's beliefs seriously and assuming they are adult and intelligent enough to be able to cope with it if you tell them, clearly and civility, why you think they are totally, utterly and disastrously wrong.

Lack of manners is the sign of a hero.

Pleasure involves respect, and respect starts with words.

I have and I will always work to promote a civil public discourse.

People who drop litter really stress me out. I have been known to chase after people and say, 'Sorry, but you've forgotten something,' and then hand it back to them.

I never say bad things about my opponent.

When have I ever bad-mouthed any of my opponents? I never have. That's not my style.

Divorce is not easy, but if you genuinely put your kids first, that dictates the civility you should show each other. What example are you otherwise?

We ought to be vigilantes for kindness and consideration.

I'm not about trying to be out here fighting and shooting, stabbing and, you know, all that crap, man.

You're nonagoshabibble," Squid said. "Squid, be polite,

Stephen reflected for some little while on the exact degree of calculated incivility allowed in a well-bred man.

For a moment Jack felt the strongest inclination to snatch up his little gilt chair and beat the white-faced man down with it; but he gave way with a tolerable show of civility