“ Society is now one polished horde, — Formed of two mighty tribes, the Bores and Bored. ”
- Lord Byron- Copy
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“ An armed society is a polite society. Manners are good when one may have to back up his acts with his life. ”
- Robert Anson Heinlein- Copy
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“ The court is like a palace of marble; it's composed of people very hard and very polished. ”
- Jean de la Bruyere- Copy
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“ It is a curious thing … that every creed promises a paradise which will be absolutely uninhabitable for anyone of civilized taste. ”
- Evelyn Waugh- Copy
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“ In a polite age almost every person becomes a reader, and receives more instruction from the Press than the Pulpit. ”
- Oliver Goldsmith- Copy
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“ This Englishwoman is so refined She has no bosom and no behind. ”
- Stevie Smith- Copy
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“ Men… are bettered and improved by trial, and refined out of broken hopes and blighted expectations. ”
- Frederick William Robertson- Copy
- 1.1K
“ The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor the man without trials. ”
- Confucius- Copy
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“ The soul is placed in the body like a rough diamond, and must be polished, or the luster of it will never appear. ”
- Daniel Defoe- Copy
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“ Art is not for the cultivated taste. It is to cultivate taste. ”
- Nikki Giovanni- Copy
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“ The savage bows down to idols of wood and stone: the civilized man to idols of flesh and blood. ”
- George Bernard Shaw- Copy
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“ We may live without friends; we may live without books. But civilized men cannot live without cooks. ”
- Owen Meredith- Copy
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“ A civilized society is one which tolerates eccentricity to the point of doubtful sanity. ”
- Robert Frost- Copy
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“ When suave politeness, tempering bigot zeal, corrected "I believe" to "One does feel.". ”
- Ronald Knox- Copy
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“ Admiration: Our polite recognition of another's resemblance to ourselves. ”
- Grenville Kleiser- Copy
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“ What we don't need to know for achievement, we need to know for our pleasure. Knowing how things work is the basis for appreciation, and is thus a source of civilized delight. ”
- William Safire- Copy
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“ Admiration; is our polite recognition of another's resemblance to ourselves. ”
- Ambrose Bierce- Copy
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“ Civilized society is perpetually menaced with disintegration through this primary hostility of men towards one another. ”
- Sigmund Freud- Copy
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“ We may live without friends; we may live without books; But civilized man cannot live without cooks. ”
- Edward Bulwer Lytton- Copy
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“ To the art of working well a civilized race would add the art of playing well. ”
- George Santayana- Copy
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“ All opinions are not equal. Some are a very great more robust, sophisticated and well supported in logic and argument than others. ”
- Douglas Adams- Copy
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“ If one could only teach the English how to talk, and the Irish how to listen, society here would be quite civilized. ”
- Oscar Wilde- Copy
- 266
“ If fear is cultivated it will become stronger. If faith is cultivated it will achieve the mastery… faith is the stronger emotion because it is positive, whereas fear is negative. ”
- John Paul Jones- Copy
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“ Satire should, like a polished razor keen, Wound with a touch that's scarcely felt or seen. Thine is an oyster knife, that hacks and hews; The rage but not the talent to abuse. ”
- Lady Mary Wortley Montagu- Copy
- 3.5K
“ When you have to kill a man it costs nothing to be polite. ”
- Winston Churchill- Copy
- 3.8K
“ You know, sometimes, when they say you're ahead of your time, it's just a polite way of saying you have a real bad sense of timing. ”
- George McGovern- Copy
- 2.3K
“ So for a good old-gentlemanly vice, I think I must take up with avarice. ”
- Lord Byron- Copy
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