Ceremony Quote by Marcus Aurelius

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

People generally despise where they flatter

— Aristotle

Ceremonies are the outworks of manners.

— Lord Chesterfield

Ceremony is necessary as the outwork and defense of manners.

— Lord Chesterfield

The preternatural solemnity of a good many of the professionally religious is to me a point against them.

— Alfred North Whitehead

Some indeed there are who profess to despise all flattery, but even these are nevertheless to be flattered, by being told that they do…

— Charles Caleb Colton

Every ceremony or rite has a value if it is performed without alteration. A ceremony is a book in which a great deal is…

— Anonymous

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

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

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

— Mervyn Peake

There is an innate decorum in man, and it is not fair to thrust Truth upon people when they don't expect it. Only the…

— Christopher Morley