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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

Ceremony assists people to adjust to change (a marriage ceremony does this for families), to recognize achievement (a classic example is a graduation ceremony),…

— Dally Messenger

Ceremony keeps up things: 'tis like a penny glass to a rich spirit, or some excellent water; without it the water were spilt, and…

— John Selden

“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

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

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

I believe in ceremony. I think ceremony is important, pomp and circumstance, tradition. I'm into those things.

— Rob Lowe

Ceremony is necessary as the outwork and defense of manners.

— Lord Chesterfield

“Ritual and ceremony are powerful bonding tools. They result in a sense of community, a feeling of unity far beyond what you might expect.”

— Del Suggs

Ceremony is necessary in Courts, as the outwork and defense of manners.

— Lord Chesterfield

RITE, n. A religious or semi-religious ceremony fixed by law, precept or custom, with the essential oil of sincerity carefully squeezed out of it.

— Ambrose Bierce

Ceremony forbids us to express by words things that are lawful and natural, and we obey it; reason forbids us to do things unlawful…

— Michel de Montaigne