There are many faculties in man, each of which takes its turn of activity, and that faculty which is paramount in any period and e...xerts itself through the strongest nation, determines the civility of that age: and each age thinks its own the perfection of reason.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
A sweet disorder in the dress Kindles in clothes a wantonness:... A lawn about the shoulders thrown Into a fine distraction: An erring lace, which here and there Enthralls the crimson stomacher: A cuff neglectful, and thereby Ribbands to flow confusedly: A winning wave (deserving note) In the tempestuous petticoat: A careless shoestring, in whose tie I see a wild civility: Do more bewitch me than when art Is too precise in every part.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Civility, which is a disposition to accommodate and oblige others, is essentially the same in every country; but good breeding, as... it is called, which is the manner of exerting that disposition, is different in almost every country, and merely local; and every man of sense imitates and conforms to that local good breeding of the place which he is at.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Almost every man we meet requires some civility,--requires to be humored; he has some fame, some talent, some whim of religion or ...philanthropy in his head that is not to be questioned, and which spoils all conversation with him. But a friend is a sane man who exercises not my ingenuity, but me.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
In history the great moment is, when the savage is just ceasing to be a savage, with all his hairy Pelasgic strength directed on h...is opening sense of beauty;--and you have Pericles and Phidias,--and not yet passed over into the Corinthian civility. Everything good in nature and in the world is in that moment of transition, when the swarthy juices still flow plentifully from nature, but their astrigency or acridity is got out by ethics and humanity.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Courage, of all national qualities, is the most precarious; because it is exerted only at intervals, and by a few in every nation;... whereas industry, knowledge, civility, may be of constant and universal use, and for several ages, may become habitual to the whole people.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
A new kind of woman with deep-rooted values is changing the way we live. Market researchers call it "neo-traditionalism." To us it...'s a woman who has found her identity in herself, her home, her family.... She is part of an extraordinary social movement that is profoundly changing the way Americans look at living--and the way products are marketed. The home is again the center of American life, oatmeal is back on the breakfast table, families are vacationing together, watching movies at home, playing Monopoly again. Even the perfume ads are suddenly glorifying commitment.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »