Civility Quotes - Page 2

I know no religion that destroys courtesy, civility, and kindness.

The highest proof of civility is that the whole public action of the State is directed on securing the greatest good of the greatest number.

We see a decline of civility, and, sadly, it’s often modeled by the very people from whom we have the least right to expect it.

People will no more advance their civility to a bear, than their money to a bankrupt.

Friendship cannot live with ceremony, nor without civility.

Civility is perhaps a quaint notion but civility in Parliament is something we should always strive to uphold.

Our relationship now thoroughly ruined, with even civility destroyed between us, all I wanted anymore was the door.

There is chaos behind the civility, of course.

Civility is a desire to receive civilities, and to be accounted well-bred.

Being aloof, gruff, or stern never got anyone anywhere. Who wants to be treated like that? Certainly not you. And surely not the people you meet.

I know it's sappy, but I bet there's a market for civility and niceness out there that, while probably not as titillating as a junkyard scrap between shirtless adversaries, it'd sure be healthier.

There is nothing costs less than civility.

Southerners have many fine qualities, charm and civility among them, and a sense of the tragic.

Civility also requires relearning how to disagree without being disagreeable. Surely you can question my policies without questioning my faith or, for that matter, my citizenship.

I know it's very 'old media' of me to admit this, but I am often unnerved by the lack of civility on the Web.

In my entire time in Washington, I treated everyone with respect, with civility.

The reciprocal civility of authors is one of the most risible scenes in the farce of life.

The civilities of the great are never thrown away.

There was no civility, there was no sophistication, there was nothing but raw resentment and anger on the part of the Hillary [Clinton] campaign staff.

[T]he politically correct are above the rules of ordinary civility, once they have identified you as an unbeliever in their religion.

Nothing costs less nor is cheaper than compliments of civility.

Civility cost nothing.

Civility is not simply about manners.

In religious matters a traveller loses nothing by civility.

Civility, it is said, means obeying the unenforceable.