Quotes About Civility

One may know a man that never conversed in the world, by his excess of good-breeding.

It is in refinement and elegance that the civilized man differs from the savage.

There is no man that can teach us to be gentlemen better than Joseph Addison.

A proud man never shows his pride so much as when he is civil.

If a civil word or two will render a man happy, he must be a wretch indeed who will not tell them to him.

A gentleman is a man who is only rude when he intends to be.

During a long and varied career as a bachelor, dear spouse [mock platform manner], I have noticed that marriage is usually the death of politeness between a man and a woman.

George H. W. Bush is gracious. And I'm not saying any of the former presidents aren't gracious, I'm just saying, this man is gracious.

To be thoroughly imbued, with the liberal arts refines the manners, and makes men to be mild and gentle in their conduct.

The man who first abused his fellows with swear-words instead of bashing their brains out with a club should be counted among those who laid the foundations of civilization.

I recognize but one mental acquisition as a necessary part of the education of a lady or gentlemen, namely, an accurate and refined use of the mother tongue.

Gorillas are almost altruistic in nature. There's very little if any 'me-itis.' When I get back to civilization I'm always appalled by 'me, me, me.'

The total and universal want of manners, both in males and females, is ... remarkable ... that polish which removes the coarser and rougher parts of our nature is unknown and undreamed of.

Even a wolf knows how to be polite when animalistic humans have no clue about politeness

deferring gratification is a good definition of being civilized.

Thoughtful people of different political philosophies can disagree, but in a very agreeable manner.

PLEASE and THANK YOU...two polite phrases which are slowly disappearing from our vocabulary.

Politics is the polite way of telling somone else they're stupid.

To listen to some people in Politics, you'd think-nice-was a four-letter word.

I never let my politics supersede my manners.

Whether in families or in politics, a good observation: "One can disagree without being disagreeable."

Freedom of speech doesn't mean threatening the freedom of others.

You need not to love everyone, but you need to be polite with everyone, people will appreciate your politeness more than your love, because politeness is sweeter than love.

Civility is the natural state for people who know how limited their own individual powers are and know, too, that they need the conversation.