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"Uncivil" Quotes from Famous Books

... Mrs. Galsworthy and Gertrude was most uncivil. You didn't look in the very least pleased ...

— A Popular Schoolgirl • Angela Brazil

... if it were frightful I should think you uncivil; and if you made it handsome, I should know you were flattering. Besides, you don't know enough of me to ...

— The Kellys and the O'Kellys • Anthony Trollope

... understand," said her father; and he lifted Daisy on his knee kindly. "Daisy, I never saw you uncivil before." ...

— Melbourne House • Elizabeth Wetherell

... in the least,—said the Scarabee, with something as much like a look of triumph as his dry face permitted,—not uncivil at all, but a rather extraordinary question to ask at this date of entomological history. I settled that question some years ago, by a series of dissections, six-and-thirty in number, reported ...

— The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table • Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. (The Physician and Poet not the Jurist)

... of other men, do expose their neighbour to scorn and contempt, making ignominious reflections upon his person and his actions, taunting his real imperfections, or fastening imaginary ones upon him, they transgress their duty, and abuse their wits; 'tis not urbanity, or genuine facetiousness, but uncivil rudeness or vile malignity. To do thus, as it is the office of mean and base spirits (unfit for any worthy or weighty employments), so it is full of inhumanity, of iniquity, of indecency and folly. For the weaknesses of men, of what kind soever (natural or moral, in quality or in act), considering ...

— Sermons on Evil-Speaking • Isaac Barrow

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