Quotes About Civility

In my book, all manners are is thinking of somebody else.

Manners are really very important to me.

All of that savage power hidden under so much civility.

When people complain of the decay of manners they have in mind not the impudent abbreviations of the crowd, but the decline in bowing and scraping and in speaking of one's employer as "the master." What the rich mean by the good manners of the poor is usually not civility, but servility.

At many levels, contempt has become a defining characteristic of American politics. It makes us unwilling to listen to what others say—unwilling, in some cases, even to allow them to speak. This stops the learning process cold and creates a ready-made audience for demagogues who know how to bring diverse groups of the aggrieved together in righteous opposition to everyone else.

So let us begin anew - remembering on both sides that civility is not a sign of weakness, and sincerity is always subject to proof

The arrangements that couples make in order to maintain civility in the midst of their journey to divorce are often most elaborate when the professed top priority is to protect a child.

A gentleman need not know Latin but he should at least have forgotten it.

I would like to say I am sick people being cranky or rude and trying to pass it off as intelligent. Not the same.

Genuine tolerance does not mean ignoring differences as if differences made no difference. Genuine tolerance means engaging differences within a bond of civility and respect.

Sin palabras los seres humanos nos convertimos en bestias y perdemos el juicio

Try to be nice. And if you can't be nice, then shut the hell up and go stand in the corner with your drink and leave all the rest of us alone. Yes, yes, you're right and everyone else is wrong. That—like your immense talent—is a given. But just because you're right doesn't mean you should be a dick about it.

there would be times when we disagreed but there would never be times when we had to be disagreeable.

when you start displaying courtesy, politeness, and consideration, people start displaying them right back.

Better he think me rude than not think at all.

When we no longer hold people responsible for their choices, civility and common sense will be diminished.

Be polite even to those who are rude to you, not because they are, but because of you are.

For, according to Françoise's code, as it is illustrated in the carvings of Saint-André-des-Champs, to wish for the death of an enemy, even to inflict it is not forbidden, but it is a horrible sin not to do what is expected of you, not to return a civility,

I was under the librarians' protection. Civil servants and servants of civility, they had my back. They would be whatever they needed to be that day: information professionals, teachers, police, community organizers, computer technicians, historians, confidantes, clerks, social workers, storytellers, or, in this case, guardians of my peace.

I think freedom of speech is important, but coupled with responsibility.

Poverty is the test of civility and the touchstone of friendship.

The most familiar and intimate habitudes, connections, friendships, require a degree of good-breeding both to preserve and cement them.

We have too many Christians out there who are strong on convictions but embarrass the name of Christ in how they relate to the world around them. At the same time, we have too many Christians who are remarkably civil, but you would have no idea what convictions they hold. We need both convictions and civility.

The phrase "convicted civility" refers to a balance between holding convictions as a Christian and communicating those convictions with civility.