Civility

Famous quotes containing the word civility:

“People will no more advance their civility to a bear, than their money to a bankrupt.”
—Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl Chesterfield (1694–1773)

“There are many faculties in man, each of which takes its turn of activity, and that faculty which is paramount in any period and exerts itself through the strongest nation, determines the civility of that age: and each age thinks its own the perfection of reason.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

“The civility of the world has reached that pitch that their more moral genius is becoming indispensable, and the quality of this race is to be honored for itself.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)