civility quotes

A sweet disorder in the dress 400 Kindles in clothes a wantonness: A lawn about the shoulders thrown Into a fine distraction† A careless shoe-string, in whose tie I see a wild civility: Do more bewitch me, than when Art Is too precise in every part.

- Robert Herrick
  'Delight in Disorder'.

French truth,Dutch prowess,British policy, Hibernian learning, Scotch civility, Spaniards'dispatch,Danes' wit, are mainly seen in thee.

-JohnWilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester
c.1673  'Upon Nothing', stanza16 (published1679).