Civilised Quotes

“The problem with a lot of people is that what they think is a virtue is actually a vice in disguise. It's much easier to convince yourself that you're reasonable and civilised, than soft and weak, isn't it?”

“Poetry is jealous of you tonight, for as soon as I come to pen a few words, your perfume attacks me in the most civilised manner and I forget myself. I forget the poem. I forget the ...”

“At some future period, not very distant as measured by centuries, the civilised races of man will almost certainly exterminate and replace throughout the world the savage races. At the same time the anthropomorphous apes, as Professor Schaaffhausen has remarked, will no doubt be exterminated. The break will then be rendered wider, for it will intervene between man in a more civilised state as we may hope, than the Caucasian and some ape as low as a baboon, instead of as at present between the negro or Australian and the gorilla.”

“It's not about being educated, it's about being civilised.”

“It wasn't the wild animals that scared her, but the civilised ones.”

“Children, Hadley thinks to herself, children are more civilised than this gang on the sauce.”

“London is one of the most civilised places in the world for the procedure of making architecture and urban design.”

“Adventures, I reflected, are all very fine but a certain amount of civilised comfort forms the true kernel of our desires.”

“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.”