Female announcer: Captain Oveur, white courtesy phone. Captain Clarence Oveur, white courtesy phone. Female announcer: [Oveur picks up the red phone] No, the white phone. Female announcer: Captain Oveur, white courtesy phone. Captain Clarence Oveur, ...
Courtesy never offended anybody.
There is a courtesy of the heart; it is allied to love. From its springs the purest courtesy in the outward behavior.
I'd like to say from the beginning that the 12 years I've been coming here, I've met unfailing courtesy and cooperation, courtesy from your people and cooperation from the Ministry of Information.
Spread your courtesy across the door posts of everyone you know, but reserve your intimacy with the little trustworthy friends who are going where you are going. Get it simply: wide courtesy, narrow intimacy!
We are all born rude. No infant has ever appeared yet with the grace to understand how inconsiderate it is to disturb others in the middle of the night.
Passion and courtesy are two polar opposite traits that serve to balance each other into a full-blooded whole. Without socialization, passion is a crude barbarian, and without passion, the elegant and polite are dead. Allow both passion and courtesy ...
The rationale that etiquette should be eschewed because it fosters inequality does not ring true in a society that openly admits to a feverish interest in the comparative status-conveying qualities of sneakers. Manners are available to all, for free.
Nobody believes that the man who says, 'Look, lady, you wanted equality,' to explain why he won't give up his seat to a pregnant woman carrying three grocery bags, a briefcase, and a toddler is seized with the symbolism of idealism.
Nowadays, we never allow ourselves the convenience of being temporarily unavailable, even to strangers. With telephone and beeper, people subject themselves to being instantly accessible to everyone at all times, and it is the person who refuses to b...
Whatever one of us asked the other to do - it was assumed the asker would weigh all the consequences - the other would do. Thus one might wake the other in the night and ask for a cup of water; and the other would peacefully (and sleepily) fetch it. ...
Gratitude is the most exquisite form of courtesy.
The grace of God is courtesy.
Courtesy is a lady's armor.
The small courtesies sweeten life; the greater ennoble it.
Courtesy with them is tariqa and following them is haqiqa.
One reason that the task of inventing manners is so difficult is that etiquette is folk custom, and people have emotional ties to the forms of their youth. That is why there is such hostility between generations in times of rapid change; their manner...
When restraint and courtesy are added to strength, the latter becomes irresistible.
All doors open to courtesy.
Courtesy is as much a mark of a gentleman as courage.
Princes of courtesy, merciful, proud and strong.
