Ceremonious Quotes

#1. Why should I pray? Why should I venerate and be ceremonious?

Walt Whitman

#2. I envy my Jewish friends the ritual of saying kaddish - a ritual that seems perfectly conceived, with its built-in support group and its ceremonious designation of time each day devoted to remembering the lost person.

Meghan O'Rourke

#3. I want to be in a relationship where you telling me you love me is just a ceremonious validation of what you already show me.

Steve Maraboli

#4. Spare me the whispering, crowded room, the friends who come and gape and go, the ceremonious air of gloom - all, which makes death a hideous show.

Matthew Arnold

#5. Princeton is a wonderful little spot. A quaint and ceremonious village of puny demigods on stilts.

Albert Einstein

#6. In forgiving an injury be somewhat ceremonious, lest your magnanimity be construed as indifference.

Ambrose Bierce

#7. Without leisure there can be neither art nor science nor fine conversation, nor any ceremonious performance of the offices of love and friendship.

Lewis Mumford

#8. There are no persons more solicitous about the preservation of rank than those who have no rank at all. Observe the humors of a country christening, and you will find no court in Christendom so ceremonious as the quality of Brentford.

William Shenstone

#9. There are ceremonious bows that repel one like a cudgel.

Christian Nestell Bovee

#10. what is ceremonious and curious and commonplace will be legendary.

Diane Arbus

#11. Throw away respect,
Tradition, form, and ceremonious duty;
For you have but mistook me all this while.
I live with bread, like you; feel want,
Taste grief, need friends. Subjected thus,
How can you say to me I am king?

William Shakespeare

#12. His cold politeness, his ceremonious grace, were worse than anything.

Jane Austen

#13. Well, here we are.
Sometimes a statement of the bloody obvious was the only appropriate way forward. As if to give life ceremonious permission to proceed.

Michel Faber

#14. However, because death is the only absolute equality among human beings on earth, even the ignoblest and the most welcome instance of it deserves a little ceremonious thought.

Glenway Wescott

#15. Bowing, ceremonious, formal compliments, stiff civilities, will never be politeness; that must be easy, natural, unstudied; and what will give this but a mind benevolent and attentive to exert that amiable disposition in trifles to all you converse and live with?

William Pitt, 1st Earl Of Chatham

#16. If there is a new fascism, it won't come from skinheads and punks; it will come from people who eat granola and think they know how the world should be.

Brian Eno

#17. Millions upon millions will attain your ceremony, but don't think all of them are in a ceremonius mood.

Michael Bassey Johnson

#18. You have to take your ego out of it and say, do I want people to be obsequious to me or do I want to write good books? If it's the latter, you have to take criticism. It's annoying, but that's how to do good stuff; listen to other people.

Denise Mina

#19. God will never be sort of Words relevant every suitation

Smart Oyejide

#20. Like every American, I will never forget where I was on the morning of September 11, 2001. As a member of Congress from Indiana, that day my duties took me to Capitol Hill and to sights and sounds I will never forget.

Mike Pence

#21. Beauty was the promise of happiness, not happiness itself; and the anticipated world was often more rich than anything real.

Kim Stanley Robinson

#22. Never Give up, never surrender.

Nancy J. Cohen

#23. The diet industry has a deep interest in the failure of dieters
if everyone got skinny, they'd go out of business.

Golda Poretsky

#24. There is no Pleasure like that of receiving Praise from the Praiseworthy.

Richard Steele