Civility Quotes

Civility costs nothing, and buys everything.

Unfortunately civility is hard to codify or legislate, but you know it when you see it. It's possible to disagree without being disagreeable.

Civility is not a sign of weakness.

The civility which money will purchase, is rarely extended to those who have none.

Only once in my life was I on the edge of incivility. I do not like to be unkind.

Incivility is the extreme of pride; it is built on the contempt of mankind.

Could there be finer symptoms? Is not general incivility the very essence of love?

Politeness and civility are the best capital ever invested in business.

I have often seen people uncivil by too much civility, and tiresome in their courtesy.

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

Cruelty hardens and degrades, kindness reforms and ennobles.

The civility of no race can be perfect whilst another race is degraded.

People who expect deference resent mere civility.

Civility is only a passenger - not a driver - on the information superhighway.

It is so much easier to extol the virtues of civility than to talk civilly about the virtues we need to uphold.

The thorny point Of bare distress hath ta'en from me the show Of smooth civility; yet am I inland bred And know some nurture.

Fair words cost nothing.

All of civility depends on being able to contain the rage of individuals.

Good rule to follow: never reward someone's incivility by giving them the headline they seek.

Some people don’t respond to civility.

Familiarity is a suspension of almost all the laws of civility, which libertinism has introduced into society under the notion of ease.

I am told that I had a bad temper, and remember being banished to the back hall until civility returned.

The people who are good at being civil often lack strong convictions and people who have strong convictions often lack civility.

Civility is a charm that attracts the love of all men.

That character in conversation which commonly passes for agreeable is made up of civility and falsehood.