From hence, let fierce contending nations know What dire effects from civil discord flow.

-Addison,Joseph
  Cato, act 5, sc.1, closing words.

She was nothing more than a mere good-tempered, civil and obliging young woman; as such we could scarcely dislike heröshe was onlyan Object of Contempt.

-Austen,Jane
  Love and Freindship,'Letter the13th'.

   In civil business;What first? Boldness;What second, and third? Boldness. And yet boldness is a child of ignorance and baseness.

-Bacon, Francis,Viscount St Albans
  Essays, no.12,'Of Boldness'.

Estou farto do lirismo comedido Do lirismo bem comportado Do lirismo funciona¤  rio p u¤ blico com livro de ponto expediente protocolo e manifesta c° o‹  es de apre c° o ao Sr Diretor. Estou farto do lirismo que pa¤  ra e vai averiguar no diciona¤  rio o cunho verna¤  culo de um voca¤  bulo. Abaixo os puristas I'm sick of cautious lyricism of well-behaved lyricism of a civil servant lyricism complete with time card office hours set procedures and expressions of esteem for Mr Boss, Sir. I'm sick of the lyricism that has to stop in midstream to look up the precise meaning of a word. Down with purists!

-Bandeira, Manuel
  Libertinagem,'Poe¤  tica' (translated as'Poetics',1989).

My Minister's room is like a padded cell, and in certain ways I am like a person who is suddenly certified a lunatic and put safely into this great, vast room, cut off from real life.Of course they don't behave quite like nurses, because the Civil Service is profoundly deferentialö'Yes, Minister! No, Minister! If you wish it, Minister!'

-Crossman, Richard Howard Stafford
  The Diaries of a Cabinet Minister, vol.1 (1975), 22 Oct.

'Mary, what made you do it?' She looked him honestly inthe faceand gavetheanswer that became famous in Deptford: 'He was very civil, 'Masa. And he wanted it so badly.'

-Davies, Robertson
  Mrs. Dempster explains to her parson husband why she had sex with a tramp. Fifth Business, pt.1, ch.10.

Away with the music of Broadway! Be off with your Irving Berlin! Oh, I'd give no quarter to Kern or Cole Porter and Gershwin keeps pounding on tin. How can I be civil when hearing this drivel? It's only for night-clubbing souses. Oh, give me the free 'n'easy waltz that is Viennesey And go tell the band if they want a hand the waltz must be Strauss's!

-Gershwin, Ira originally Israel Gershowitz
  'By Strauss'.

It makes no more sense to launch an assault on our civil liberties as the best way to get at terrorists than it did to launch an invasion on Iraq as the best way to get at Osama Bin Laden.

-Gore, Al(bert,Jr)
  Speech calling for the repeal of the US Patriot  Act, 9 Nov.

Pray, good people, be civil; I am the Protestant whore.

-Gwyn, Nell
   Attributed, when angry crowds pressed round her carriage in the belief that she was Charles II's unpopular Catholic mistress Louise de Ke¤  rouaille.

Tribeless, lawless, homeless ishe who loves the horrorof civil war.

-Homer   8c
c.700  BC   Iliad, bk.9, l.63^4 (translated by Martin Hammond).

This [Magna Carta] has been forced from the King. It constitutes an insult to the Holy See, a serious weakening of the royal power, a disgrace to the English nation, a danger to all Christendom, since this civil war obstructs the crusade. Therefore†we condemn the charter and forbid the King to keep it, or the barons and their supporters to make him do so, on pain of excommunication.

-Pope Innocent III originally Lotario de' Conti di Segni
  Papal Bull, 24  Aug.

Un fonctionnaire ne plaisante pas. A civil servant doesn't make jokes.

-Ionesco, Euge' n e
  Tueur sans gages, act1.

  Let it be impressed upon your minds, let it be instilled into your children, that the liberty of the press is the Palladium of all the civil, political, and religious rights of an Englishman.

-'Junius' possibly the pseudonym of  Sir Philip Francis
  Letters, Dedication to the  Authorized Edition.

   Assume a particular state of development in the productive facilities of man and you will get a particular form of commerce and consumption. Assume particular stages of development in production, commerce and consumption and you will have a corresponding social constitution, a corresponding organisation of the family, of orders or of classes, in a word, a corresponding civil society. Assume a particular civil societyand you will get particular political conditions which are only the official expression of civil society.

-Marx, Karl Heinrich
  Letter to P  V Annenkov, 26 Dec.

Le divorce a ordinairement une grande utilite¤   politique;

-Bre'  de et de

Civil war is impossible in the Soviet Union.

-Pavlov,Valentin Sergeyevich
  Interview,The Independent,18 Apr.

In a civil war, a general must knowöand I'm afraid it's a thing rather of instinct than of practiceöhe must know exactly when to move over to the other side.

-Reed, Henry
  Not a DrumWas Heard:TheWar Memoirs of General Gland, unpublished radio play.

That's too civil by half.

-Sheridan, Richard Brinsley
  Bob Acres to Sir Lucius O' Trigger. The Rivals, act 3, sc.4.

Here lies a civil servant. He was civil To everyone, and servant to the devil.

-Sisson, C(harles) H(erbert)
  'Civil Servant'.

The British Civil Service†is a beautifully designed and effective braking mechanism.

-Baroness
  Speech at the Royal Institute of Public Administration, 11 Feb.