Civil Restraint Order

Famous quotes containing the words civil, restraint and/or order:

“We are too civil to books. For a few golden sentences we will turn over and actually read a volume of four or five hundred pages.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

“The Persians are called the French of the East; we will call the Arabs Oriental Italians. A gifted noble people; a people of wild strong feelings, and of iron restraint over these: the characteristic of noblemindedness, of genius.”
—Thomas Carlyle (1795–1881)

“Not that it was beautiful,
but that, in the end, there was
a certain sense of order there....”
—Anne Sexton (1928–1974)