Civilise Quotes & Sayings

Don't tell me what delusion he entertains regarding God, or what mountebank he follows in politics, or what he springs from, or what he submits to from his wife. Simply tell me how he makes his living. It is the safest and surest of all known tests. A man who gets his board and lodging on this ball in an ignominious way is inevitably an ignominious man. — H.L. Mencken

Have we ever thought to consider that the need to be loved grows because of its absence, but that love also grows because of its presence? And does this not speak to the power of love? — Craig D. Lounsbrough

That's what show business is, sincere insincerity. — Benny Hill

Europeans used to say Americans were puritanical. Then they discovered that we were not puritans. So now they say that we are obsessed with sex. — Mary McCarthy

The steel cartel is dead; but the cartel idea survives. — George W. Stocking

If you can't win, don't join them; learn how to lose. — Walt Kelly

Law applied to its extreme is the greatest injustice — Marcus Tullius Cicero

I am a contrarian. — Barry Diller

The responsibility of the attorney general is to change things and bring us closer to the ideals expressed in our founding documents. — Eric Holder

Are there no Moravians in the Moon, that not a missionary has yet visited this poor pagan planet of ours, to civilise civilisation and christianise Christendom? — Herman Melville

En ge ne ral, plus un peuple est civilise , poli, moins ses moeurs sont poe tiques; tout s'affaiblit en s'adoucissant. Ingeneral, themore civilized and refinedthepeople, the less poetic are its morals; everything weakens as it mellows. — Denis Diderot

The End of the Silk Road By David D. Levine | 10844 words — Anonymous

If you're acting, then there's a prescribed way to behave; whereas in life, there's no prescribed way. So acting feels like a comfortable way to get through the day. — Jesse Eisenberg