Ceremony Quotes
These are some of the best 'Ceremony' quotations and sayings.
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All ceremonies are, in themselves, very silly things; but yet a man of the world should know them. - They are the outworks of manners and decency, which would too often be broken in upon, if it were not for that defence which keeps the enemy at a proper distance.
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Ceremonies differ in every country; they are only artificial helps which ignorance assumes to imitate politeness, which is the result of good sense and good-nature.
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Ceremony is the invention of wise men to keep fools at a distance; as good breeding is an expedient to make fools and wise men equals.
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Ceremony resembles that base coin which circulates through a country by royal mandate; it serves every purposs of real money at home, but is entirely useless if carried abroad. - A person who should attempt to circulate his native trash in another country would be thought either ridiculous or culpable.
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Ceremony was devised at first, to set a gloss on faint deeds, hollow welcomes, and recanting goodness; but where there is true friendship, there needs none.
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Forms and regularity of proceeding, if they are not justice, partake much of the nature of justice, which, in its highest sense, is the spirit of distributive order.
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If we use no ceremory toward others, we shall be treated without any. - People are soon tired of paying trifling attentions to those who receive them with coldness, and return them with neglect.
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To dispense with ceremony is the most delicate mode of conferring a compliment.
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To divest either politics or religion of ceremony, is the most certain method of bringing either into contempt. - The weak must have their inducements to admiration as well as the wise; and it is the business of a sensible government to impress all ranks with a sense of subordination, whether this be effected by a diamond buckle, a virtuous edict, a sumptuary law, or a glass necklace.
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To repose our confidence in forms and ceremonies, is superstition; but not to submit to them is pride or self-conceit.
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