Civilised Quotes

Brits are far more intelligent and civilised than Americans. I love the fact that you can hail a taxi and just pick up your pram and put in the back of the cab without having to collapse it. I love the parks and places I go for dinner and my friends. It`s a pretty city, you know.

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

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

Suicide is possible, but not probable; hanging, I trust, is even more unlikely; for I hope that, by the time I die, my countrymen will have become civilised enough to abolish capital punishment.