Coat Quote by Martha MacCallum

“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

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 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

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

All ceremonies are in themselves very silly things; but yet, a man of the world should know them. They are the outworks of Mannersand…

— Lord Chesterfield

The blessing of the wedding garment

— St Catherine Of Siena

When I was a young man, it was very fashionable not to have the sacred thread ceremony, and among very respectable families, mind you.…

— Victor Banerjee

Ceremony is necessary as the outwork and defense of manners.

— Lord Chesterfield

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

— Rob Lowe

Ceremonies are the outworks 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