Formality Quotes

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It has not been my fortune to know very much of Freemasonry, but I have had the great fortune to know many Freemasons and have… — Calvin Coolidge
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 what… — Charles Spurgeon
In the modern world there's no such thing as formality. A dinner jacket used to mean a tuxedo, you know? — Noah Emmerich
If conversation be an art, like painting, sculpture, and literature, it owes its most power charm to nature; and the least shade of formality or… — Henry Theodore Tuckerman
Grilling takes the formality out of entertaining. Everyone wants to get involved. — Bobby Flay
I despise formal restaurants. I find all of that formality to be very base and vile. I would much rather eat potato chips on the… — Werner Herzog
I like to be able to wear something that is appropriate for wherever the day takes me: to work, on a hike and then out… — Matthew McConaughey
We've become much more casual and much more relaxed in social interactions, where there was a formality and maybe a kind of respect at that… — Radha Mitchell
People sometimes think of 'queen' as a title that's shrouded with protocol and formality, and for that reason sometimes people are not easily saying what… — Queen Rania of Jordan
Most people think, when they're young, that they're going to the top of their chosen world, and that the climb up is only a formality.… — Dick Francis
Loneliness is a hard thing to handle. I feel it, sometimes. When I do, I want it to end. Sometimes, when you're near someone, when… — Jim Butcher
It was not certain what significance the ceremony held... but the formality was no less sacred for it being unintelligible — Mervyn Peake
...there remained a strange formality between them, and her pleasure in his presence felt too much like missing him had felt during the last week. — Robin McKinley
House-training, I must tell you, is a formality that can elude young dachshunds for some time; this is particularly true in climates that affront their… — Mary Doria Russell
I'd like to shower and change clothes," she said. "Would you mind waiting for me a half hour?" The question seemed to amuse him. "Not… — Judith McNaught
Truly good manners are invisible: they ease the way for others, without drawing attention to themselves. It is no accident that the word "punctilious" ("attentive… — Lynne Truss
Every time a pundit or elected official is on any TV news program, it should be a polite formality to mention that GE has made… — Adam McKay
I am actually extremely casual in certain environments. But one of the reasons I like living in London, I like the formality of it, as… — Tom Ford
An open-minded and diverse population that readily shares information, encourages experimentation, accepts failure and dispenses with formality and hierarchy is what makes Silicon Valley the… — Vivek Wadhwa
The Toddstock thing is the closest thing, I have to say, a Grateful Dead sort of thing where it all lapses over from the formality… — Todd Rundgren

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