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That monstrous tuberosity of civilised life, the capital of England. — Thomas Carlyle

We now lay in towns, where nobody troubled us with questions; we had floated into civilised life, where people pass without salutation. — Robert Louis Stevenson

War was a hellish, horrible hideous thing - too horrible and hideous to happen in the twentieth century between civilised nations. — L.M. Montgomery

In all highly civilised communities Pretence is prominent, and sooner or later invades the regions of Literature. — James Payn

The permissive society has been allowed to become a dirty phrase. A better phrase is the civilised society. — Roy Jenkins

If no set of moral ideas were truer or better than any other, there would be no sense in preferring civilised morality to savage morality. — C.S. Lewis

No civilised man ever regrets a pleasure, and no uncivilised man ever knows what a pleasure is. — Oscar Wilde

To realise the relative validity of one's convictions and yet stand for them unflinchingly is what distinguishes a civilised man from a barbarian. — Isaiah Berlin

Conscience is just a polite word for cowardice. No civilised man regrets a pleasure. — Lord Henry Wotton

I think the police are a major part of the glue that holds civilised life together. They're not highly paid. — Peter James

The presence of the policeman around the corner is the only thing that keeps us civilised. — Paul Russell

In civilised society law is the chimney through which all that smoke discharges itself that used to circulate through the whole house, — Walter Scott

The more you stand aloof from the sword, from the arrow, from the lance and from the fist, the more you become civilised! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

A civilised man is someone who has discovered something more satisfying than combat. — John Keegan

We in the House of Lords are never in touch with public opinion. That makes us a civilised body. — Oscar Wilde

There is, perhaps, no greater hardship at present inflicted on mankind in civilised and free countries than the necessity of listening to sermons. — Anthony Trollope

The possession and the enjoyment of property are the pledges which bind a civilised people to an improved country. — Edward Gibbon

The deserts of Arabia are innocent of our civilised desolation-the ruins of Palestine are incapable of our modern gloom! — Wilkie Collins

Adventures, I reflected, are all very fine but a certain amount of civilised comfort forms the true kernel of our desires. — K.W. Jeter

Children, Hadley thinks to herself, children are more civilised than this gang on the sauce. — Naomi Wood

I think you will agree the sign of a civilised society is a regular dining schedule. — Philippa Ballantine

Around it are those countries which, according to History, constitute the civilised world ie, a world that can support historians — Terry Pratchett

If there was anything any Radchaai considered essential for civilised life, it was tea. — Ann Leckie

I have a flat in Paris and go there a lot, but the Eurostar's much more civilised than flying. — Michael Bond

They were savages, yet they were ghosts. The two most terrible and dreaded foes of civilised experience seemed combined at once in them. — Grant Allen

To me you cannot be fully human, fully civilised, unless you recognise humanity in everyone. — Hillary Clinton

Now that their long war was over, they could get on with the proper concern of all civilised nations, which is to prepare for the next one. — Terry Pratchett

A city with no way of telling the time can by no stretch of the imagination be called civilised. It's just a mob with walls. — K.J. Parker

If I'm alone in the car and I fart, I still laugh at it. It's the little things that keep us civilised ... — Dana Gould

In itself and in its consequences the life of leisure is beautiful and ennobling in all civilised men's eyes. — Thorstein Veblen

I am civilised. My feelings are not. — Jeanette Winterson

Architecture, sculpture, painting, music, and poetry, may truly be called the efflorescence of civilised life. — Herbert Spencer

Brotherhood" to the more civilised is connected with training and identity of interest.' Man — Idries Shah

We can only truly be civilised people when we have regular and meaningful contact with the wild world — Simon Barnes

No man who is in a hurry is quite civilised. — Ariel Durant

We are free, we are civilised, to little purpose, if we grudge to any portion of the human race an equal measure of freedom and civilisation. — Thomas B. Macaulay

It is quite complicated, being civilised. — Robert Jackson Bennett

To be Radchaai is to be civilised. — Ann Leckie

Civilised adults do not take apple juice with dinner. — Fran Lebowitz

There is something hugely civilised about allowing long pauses in a conversation. Very few people can stand that kind of silence. — James Robertson

Men play at tragedy because they do not believe in the reality of the tragedy which is actually being staged in the civilised world. — Jose Ortega Y Gasset

Civilised my syphilised yarbles. — Anthony Burgess

It is a mark of civilised man that he seeks to understand his traditions, and to criticise them, not to swallow them whole. — Moses Finley

Right conscience and at the higher level conscientious deeds (spirituality) is the order of civilised and society-responsible men — Priyavrat Thareja

If modern civilised man had to keep the animals he eats, the number of vegetarians would rise astronomically. — Christian Morgenstern

Do you know what a soldier is, young man? He's the chap who makes it possible for civilised folk to despise war. — Allan Massie

When we get civilised, I believe children will go by number until they get old enough to choose their own names. — Myrtle Reed

Although we live in a civilised society, the business world remains a jungle. — Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum

This extraordinary metal, the soul of every manufacture, and the mainspring perhaps of civilised society. Of iron. — Samuel Smiles

The earth is not supposed to be developed and civilized by prayers alone, the earth is supposed to be civilized by hard work, labour and diligence. — Sunday Adelaja

The civilised cultures are the most cruel. It's the same with education - often it breeds sadistic forms of cruelty. — Nellie McKay

Intellectuals never sound more foolish than when posing as the last civilised man. — Christopher Hitchens

Society needs both justice and compassion, a head and a heart, if it is to be civilised. — Julian Baggini

London is one of the most civilised places in the world for the procedure of making architecture and urban design. — Renzo Piano

It is the duty of the followers of Islam to spread through the civilised world, a knowledge of what Islam means - its spirit and message. — Annie Besant

Asia is not going to be civilised after the methods of the West. There is too much Asia and she is too old. — Rudyard Kipling

There is nothing more foreign to a civilised and democratic system than preventive detention. — Robert Bourassa

I didn't cry. Real things don't make me cry. Only false or sentimental things can do that. In this respect I'm like most civilised humans. — Glen Duncan

I did not know it, but that was the last civilised dinner I was to eat for very many strange and terrible days. — H.G.Wells