Convenience Quote by Amy Vanderbilt

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

Ceremonies are the outworks of manners.

— Lord Chesterfield

“ceremony is essential to humans: It's a circle that we draw around important events to separate the momentous from the ordinary. And ritual is…

— Elizabeth Gilbert

What a brave privilege is it to be free from all contentions, from all envying or being envied, from receiving or paying all kinds…

— Abraham Cowley

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

A certain degree of ceremony is a necessary outwork of manners, as well as of religion; it keeps the forward and petulant at a…

— Lord Chesterfield

Tradition is not something a man can learn; not a thread he picks up when he feels like it; any more than a man…

— Talal Asad

Ceremony is-really a protection, too, in times of emotional involvement, particularly at death. If we have a social formula to guide us and do…

— Amy Vanderbilt

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

— Rick Owens

Ceremony is necessary as the outwork and defense of manners.

— Lord Chesterfield

I prefer to choose which traditions to keep and which to let go.

— Theodore Bikel

We must recognize what in our accepted tradition is damaging to our fate and dignity-and shape our lives accordingly.

— Albert Einstein