Ceremony Quotes

Ceremony Quotes

Edward M. Forster

Rating - 3 (1 Votes)

A funeral is not death, any more than baptism is birth or marriage union. All three are the clumsy devices, coming now too late, now too early, by which Society ...

George Gurdjieff

Rating - 3 (1 Votes)

Every ceremony or rite has a value if it is performed without alteration. A ceremony is a book in which a great deal is written. Anyone who understands can read ...

Blaise Pascal

Rating - 3 (1 Votes)

It is superstitious to put one's hopes in formalities, but arrogant to refuse to submit to them.

Amy Vanderbilt

Rating - 3 (1 Votes)

We must learn which ceremonies may be breached occasionally at our convenience and which ones may never be if we are to live pleasantly with our fellow man.

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Rating - 3 (1 Votes)

When one rows, it is not the rowing which moves the ship: rowing is only a magical ceremony by means of which one compels a demon to move the ship.

William Shakespeare

Rating - 3 (1 Votes)

The sauce to meat is ceremony; Meeting were bare without it.

Jonathan Swift

Rating - 3 (1 Votes)

When the world has once begun to use us ill, it afterwards continues the same treatment with less scruple or ceremony, as men do to a whore.

Lord Chesterfield

Rating - 3 (1 Votes)

Ceremony is necessary as the outwork and defense of manners.

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