I'm not much for formality.

I don't like to hold too much formality in concerts. It's not that I don't like seeing people who are really polished and put…

— Gavin Creel

Treat your business relationships like friendships (or potential friendships). Formality puts up walls, and walls don't foster good business relationships. No one is loyal…

— Steve Pavlina

Mind how you pray. Make real business of it. Let it never be a dead formality...plead the promise in a truthful, business-like way...Ask for…

— Charles Spurgeon

Marriage is like a formality for me.

— David Copperfield

“To dream in doctrines, how tidy!”

— John le Carré

Marriage is a formality, a legal bondage. Love is of the heart; marriage is of the mind. That's why I am never in favor…

— Rajneesh

We are all members of the same great family ... On social occasions the formality of strictly military occasions should be relaxed, and a…

— John A. Lejeune

“Just the usual formality before the chaos begins. Like playing the National Anthem before a Cubs game.”

— Berkeley Breathed

The reason to preserve wilderness is that we need it. We need wilderness of all kinds, large and small, public and private. Wee need…

— Wendell Berry

You're obliged to pretend respect for people and institutions you think absurd. You live attached in a cowardly fashion to moral and social conventions…

— Octave Mirbeau

The Toddstock thing is the closest thing, I have to say, a Grateful Dead sort of thing where it all lapses over from the…

— Todd Rundgren

The questioning is a stupid formality aimed exclusively at preventing us from speaking at the demonstration.

— Alexei Navalny

“You two have sex every time you look at each other; sleeping together is just a formality you haven’t gotten around to yet.”

— P.J. Tracy

“In England I am always madam; I arrived too late to ever be a miss. In New York I have only been madamed once,…

— Anna Quindlen

I listened to King Oliver and I listened to Louis Armstrong, Jelly Roll Morton, Thelonious Monk, Charles Mingus, John Coltrane, Archie Shepp... I listened…

— Eric Clapton