Broken Quote by Lord Chesterfield

Ceremonies are the outworks of manners.

— Lord Chesterfield

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

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 necessary as the outwork and defense of manners.

— Lord Chesterfield

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

— Rick Owens

“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

“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

It was not certain what significance the ceremony held... but the formality was no less sacred for it being unintelligible

— Mervyn Peake

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

Many of the rites of passage, those rituals of growing up found in our society, are in the form of such comic, practical joking…

— Ralph Ellison

These ceremonies which are used in the administration of the Sacraments, each of which we receive as delivered and entrusted to us through the…

— Peter Canisius

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

— Lord Chesterfield