Civilization Quotes

"My rank is the highest known in Switzerland: I'm a free citizen." ~ Arms and the Man by George Bernard Shaw Civilization is only savagery silver-gilt. ~ Allan Quatermain by H. Rider Haggard Before this ugly edifice, and between it and the wheel-track of the street, was a grass-plot, much overgrown with burdock, pig-weed, apple-pern, and such unsightly vegetation, which evidently found something congenial in the soil that had so early borne the black flower of civilised society, a prison. ~ The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne A funeral is not death, any more than baptism is birth or marriage union. All three are the clumsy devices, coming now too late, now too early, by which Society would register the quick motions of man. ~ Howards End by E. M. Forster Mr. Collins was not a sensible man, and the deficiency of nature had been but little assisted by education or society. ~ Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen