Famous quotes containing the words civil, service and/or affairs:
“A war between Europeans is a civil war.”
—Victor Hugo (18021885)
“I like the silent church before the service begins, better than any preaching. How far off, how cool, how chaste the persons look, begirt each one with a precinct or sanctuary!”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (18031882)
“Dance with a girl three times, and if you like the light of her eye and the tone of voice with which she, breathless, answers your little questions about horseflesh and musicabout affairs masculine and feminine,then take the leap in the dark.”
—Anthony Trollope (18151882)
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