"The modern habit of doing ceremonial things unceremoniously……" — C.S. Lewis

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This quote is filed under Ceremonial Quotes, one of 38 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:

• To be ambitious of true honor and of the real glory and perfection of our nature is the very principle… — Philip Sidney
• Democracy's ceremonial, its feast, it's great function, is the election. — H.G. Wells
• The greatest honor that can be paid to the work of art, on its pedestal of ritual display, is to… — Camille Paglia
• Though we have clear and full scriptures in the New Testament for abolishing the Ceremonial law, yet we nowhere read… — George Gillespie
• My father had retained an emotional affection for the ceremonial of his parental home, without allowing it to influence his… — Franz Boas
• Perhaps the individual is so viable a god because he can actually understand the ceremonial significance of the way he… — Erving Goffman
• Dance has been transformed from an involuntary motor discharge, a ceremonial rite, into a work of art, conscious of, intended… — Jamake Highwater
• The telling of stories, like singing and praying, would seem to be an almost ceremonial act, an ancient and necessary… — David Abram
• Etiquette is the ceremonial code of polite life, more voluminous and minute in each portion of society according to its… — John Ramsay McCulloch
• People rarely win wars, governments rarely lose them. People get killed. Governments moult and regroup, hydra-headed. They use flags first… — Arundhati Roy
• Wave after wave has brought to our shores beautiful and mysterious treasures from unknown worlds: figurines, animals, fetishes, masks, ceremonial… — Dominique de Menil
• Infelicity is an ill to which all acts are heir which have the general character of ritual or ceremonial, all… — J L Austin

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