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The civility which money will purchase, is rarely extended to those who have none.
Charles Dickens
The reciprocal civility of authors is one of the most risible scenes in the farce of life.
Samuel Johnson
Some people don't respond to civility.
James Ellroy
All things in Naples are arranged with as much civility as possible.
Norman Lewis
Authors have a greater right than any copyright, though it is generally unacknowledged or disregarded. They have a right to the reader's civility. There are favorable hours for reading a book, as for writing it, and to these the author has a claim. Yet many people think that when they buy a book they buy with it the right to abuse the author.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Congratulation, n. The civility of envy.
Ambrose Bierce
Politeness and civility are the best capital ever invested in business.
P. T. Barnum
People will no more advance their civility to a bear, than their money to a bankrupt.
Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield
It had long been established in the Civil Worlds that public business was to be transparent, and personal business opaque; but it was as well recognised that the two would always have a turbulent interface, and that the clique, the caucus, and the conspiracy were as ineradicable features of civility as the council or the committee.
Ken MacLeod
A winning wave, deserving note, In the tempestuous petticoat, A careless shoestring, in whose tie I see a wild civility, Do more bewitch me than when art Is too precise in every part.
Robert Herrick (poet)
I hold to the idea that civility, understood as the willingness to engage in public discourse, is the first virtue of citizens.
Mark Kingwell
In religious matters a traveller loses nothing by civility.
James Branch Cabell
Civility and etiquette, gentlemen, are all important.
Hal Duncan
Civility is the art and act of caring for others.
Deborah King
Civility is not not saying negative or harsh things. It is not the absence of critical analysis. It is the manner in which we are sharing this territorial freedom of political discussion. If our discourse is yelled and screamed and interrupted and patronized, that's uncivil.
Richard Dreyfuss
I think it is important that we rebuild an atmosphere of forgiveness and civility in every aspect of our lives.
T.D. Jakes
Natural disasters are terrifying - that loss of control, this feeling that something is just going to randomly end your life for absolutely no reason is terrifying. But, what scares me is the human reaction to it and how people behave when the rules of civility and society are obliterated.
Eli Roth
As citizens we have to be more thoughtful and more educated and more informed. I turn on the TV and I see these grown people screaming at each other, and I think, well, if we don't get our civility back, we're in trouble.
Emmylou Harris
All of civility depends on being able to contain the rage of individuals.
Joshua Lederberg
True respect means taking other people's beliefs seriously and assuming they are adult and intelligent enough to be able to cope with it if you tell them, clearly and civility, why you think they are totally, utterly and disastrously wrong.
Julian Baggini
I am told that I had a bad temper, and remember being banished to the back hall until civility returned.
Paul D. Boyer
Disobedience is a right that belongs to every human being, and it becomes a sacred duty when it springs from civility.
Mahatma Gandhi
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