All kinds Quote by Abraham Cowley

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

— Amy Vanderbilt

“It is impossible to exaggerate the importance of performing these small ceremonies regularly, and being as nearly accurate as possible with regard to the…

— Aleister Crowley

When I was a young man, it was very fashionable not to have the sacred thread ceremony, and among very respectable families, mind you.…

— Victor Banerjee

Ceremony is an invention to take off the uneasy feeling which we derive from knowing ourselves to be less the object of love and…

— Charles Lamb

All ceremonies are in themselves very silly things; but yet, a man of the world should know them. They are the outworks of Mannersand…

— Lord Chesterfield

Even the most understated ceremony involves a certain respect for ritual and pageantry. No one plays more of a significant role than the bride's…

— Vera Wang

Ceremonies are about groups agreeing on codes of behaviour and collectively committing to them... Community, responsibility and kindness usually top the list.

— Rick Owens

Ceremonies are the outworks of manners.

— Lord Chesterfield

What nobility of feeling! To sacrifice your own pleasure to preserve the comfort of others! It is a thing, I confess, that would never…

— Susanna Clarke

The practice of all ages and all countries (whether Christian or heathen, polite or barbarous) hath been ... to do honour to those who…

— Francis Atterbury

Every person - whether Greek or Barbarian - who is in training for wisdom, leading a blameless, irreproachable life, chooses neither to commit injustice…

— Pierre Hadot

No festival of martial glory or warrior's renown is this; no pageant pomp of war-like conquest, no glory of fratricidal strife attend this day.…

— Peter J. McGuire