Ceremony Quote by Mervyn Peake

Ceremony is necessary as the outwork and defense of manners.

— Lord Chesterfield

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

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

— Lord Chesterfield

“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 meant that, today, to enter any place whatsoever – an airport, a bank, a jeweller’s or watchmaker’s shop – you had to submit…

— Andrea Camilleri

Ceremonies are the outworks of manners.

— Lord Chesterfield

Even the most understated ceremony involves a certain respect for ritual and pageantry. No one plays more of a significant role than the bride's…

— Vera Wang

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 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

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