"Civilised" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... other gods than the God of Sinai and Calvary. But the eternal principles of that Arabian faith, which moulded them from savages into civilised men when they descended from their northern forests fifteen hundred years ago, and spread all over the world, can alone breathe new vigour into them, now that they are decaying in the dust and fever of their great cities. Tell them that they must cease from seeking in their vain philosophies ...
— The World's Greatest Books, Vol III • Arthur Mee and J.A. Hammerton, Eds.
... who are most universally insensible to every aspect of Nature not directly associated with the human interest of their calling. Our capacity of appreciating the beauties of the earth we live on is, in truth, one of the civilised accomplishments which we all learn as an Art; and, more, that very capacity is rarely practised by any of us except when our minds are most indolent and most unoccupied. How much share have the attractions of Nature ...
— The Woman in White • Wilkie Collins
... over. Coercive authority was resorted to; the use of gold, silver, and jewels was suppressed (I speak of coined money); it was pretended that since the time of Abraham,—Abraham, who paid ready money for the sepulchre of Sarah,—all the civilised nations in the world had been in the greatest error and under the grossest delusion, respecting money and the metals it is made of; that paper alone was useful and necessary; that we could not do greater ...
— The Memoirs of Louis XIV., His Court and The Regency, Complete • Duc de Saint-Simon
... civilised man! it is said; look at Grecian, and Egyptian, and Roman, and Gothic, and modern Architecture! What advance! what improvement! what refinements! This is what reason leads to, whereas birds remain for ever stationary. If, however, such advances as these are required, to prove ...
— Contributions to the Theory of Natural Selection - A Series of Essays • Alfred Russel Wallace
... Gilmour, laughing. "But the criticism will not apply to the Romans, who were almost as civilised and ...
— Bob Strong's Holidays - Adrift in the Channel • John Conroy Hutcheson
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