Most civilised people departed with their toothbrushes, he believed, even if they left everything else behind.

You do not belong in the company of civilised people.

And then in an even tone he said, 'They're an intelligent, highly civilised people, an island race that understands the sea.

Let's sort it out together, properly, like civilised people.

They are the accumulated wisdom of a civilised people.

It's only a small parcel of civilised people who think that.

If the Russians want us to look upon them as a civilised people, why don't they talk a civilised language?

But then, as you say, we do not understand you civilised people.

Above all, they show us what a civilised, coherent and decent people we were, and perhaps still are.

As civilised people, we need to treat all these people like human beings.