Top 259 Civility Quotes & Sayings

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

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

A crucial turning point in that earlier history occurred when men and women of good will turned aside from the task of shoring up the Roman imperium and ceased to identify the continuation of civility and moral community with the maintenance of that imperium. What they set themselves out to achieve instead - often not recognizing fully what they were doing - was the construction of new forms of community within which the moral life could be sustained so that both morality and civility might survive the coming age of barbarism and darkness.

Civility, it is said, means obeying the unenforceable.

Civility is not simply about manners.

Civility isn't just some optional value in a multicultural, multistate democratic republic. Civility is the key to civilization.

I'm attracted to polarizing characters who upend the civility of life.

Is it civility for Barack Obama to continually lie, to promise the same things he's promised us last year and the year before? Jobs, jobs, jobs, shovel-ready, shovel-ready, shovel-ready, earmarks, spending freezes, all of these things he's promised before. Where is the civility in misleading the people?

There are no points for civility or decency when it comes to prosecuting the campaign against Donald Trump.

. . . it seldom happens, I think, that a man has the civility to die when all the world wishes it.

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

George Kennan and Paul Nitze were the Adams and Jefferson of the Cold War. They were there for the beginning, they witnessed its course over almost half a century, and they argued with each other constantly while it was going on. But they maintained throughout a remarkable friendship, demonstrating-as few others in our time have-that it is possible to differ with civility. Nicholas Thompson's is a fine account of that relationship, carefully researched, beautifully written, and evocatively suggestive of how much we have lost because such civility has become so rare.

Don't talk to me about civility when you're separating families at the border.

We need to create a society in which civility rules over cynicism and apathy.

Italy should learn from the English system regarding security and civility.

There is chaos behind the civility, of course.

Friendship cannot live with ceremony, nor without civility.

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

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

Virginians deserve civility.

People who expect deference resent mere civility.

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

The need for civility in society has never been more important. The foundation of kindness and civility begins in our homes. It is not surprising that our public discourse has declined in equal measure with the breakdown of the family. The family is the foundation for love and for maintaining spirituality. The family promotes an atmosphere where religious observance can flourish. There is indeed beauty all around when there's love at home.

I think making a pretense of civility toward Eric Alterman is like making a pretense of civility to a scorpion.

Okay, so here's my question: When did civility become incompatible with protest? Why do some people consider civility an antonym - anathema, even - to political action and dissent? Because, and I'm raising my voice, it's not. Have we forgotten how Mahatma Gandhi used nonviolent civil disobedience to free India from British rule and inspire civil rights movements worldwide?

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

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

Civility is not a sign of weakness.

Civility cost nothing.

I think it is important that we rebuild an atmosphere of forgiveness and civility in every aspect of our lives.

Some people don’t respond to civility.

Civility costs nothing, and buys everything.

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

There is nothing costs less than civility.

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

When once the forms of civility are violated, there remains little hope of return to kindness or decency.

I think civility is important to getting things done.

If one wants to be called a queen, one should act with civility and grace.

Nothing costs less nor is cheaper than compliments of civility.

There should be some civility when it comes to being president of the United States.

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

I think the country's getting disgusted with Washington partly because of the decline of civility in government.

All of us should banish hateful communications and practice civility for differences of opinion.

Our civility, England determines the style of, inasmuch as England is the strongest of the family of existing nations, and as we are the expansion of that people. It is that of a trading nation; it is a shopkeeping civility. The English lord is a retired shopkeeper, and has the prejudices and timidities of that profession.

I come from a profession which has suffered greatly because of the lack of civility. Lawyers treat each other poorly and it has come home to haunt them. The public will not tolerate a lack of civility.

Civility means a great deal more than just being nice to one another. It is complex and encompasses learning how to connect successfully and live well with others, developing thoughtfulness, and fostering effective self-expression and communication. Civility includes courtesy, politeness, mutual respect, fairness, good manners, as well as a matter of good health. Taking an active interest in the well-being of our community and concern for the health of our society is also involved in civility.

Civility is the art and act of caring for others.

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

I get a choice every time I have to open my mouth: that it can be with civility and dignity and grace - or not.

Congratulations is the civility of envy.

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

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

In religious matters a traveller loses nothing by civility.

There's a civility that has always been a part of me.

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

John Stuart Mill, in his wonderful 1859 book On Liberty, talks about civility. And this is why you should always be concerned about calls for civility. He points out that civility ends up getting defined by the people who are in charge. And you'll notice that when people argue for civility, they tend to actually believe that whatever they say is civil. And if they're angry about it, it's righteous rage. But if you say it and it's kind of sharp or mean, then it's incivil. ... And sometimes, disagreement-to be productive-can't be all that civil.

Civility is a choice.

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

Teaching civility is an obligation of the family.

A careless shoe string, in whose tie I see a wilde civility.