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.

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.

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

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

People who expect deference resent mere civility.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

Some people don’t respond to civility.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

There is chaos behind the civility, of course.

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

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

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.

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.

There is nothing costs less than civility.

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

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.

Civility, it is said, means obeying the unenforceable.

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

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.

[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.

German civility, which often seems stiff to us, shows an attentive and touching respect for the person that I often prefer to our offhandedness.

The civilities of the great are never thrown away.

Martha Stewart contributes more to our civility than the Baptist Church.

Civility cost nothing.

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

Civility is not simply about manners.

In religious matters a traveller loses nothing by civility.

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.