Quotes About Formalities

#1. More dangerous than being in a house full of vampires? I think I'll take my chances, Mr. Fallinsworth."

"I think we're way past formalities here since my cock has been inside that hot, wet, delicious body of yours.

K.L. Kreig

#2. Spontaneousness is thought to be madness. Formalities are thought to be sanity. Just the opposite is the reality.

Osho

#3. The sweetness of life lies in dispensing with formalities.

Muhammad Ali

#4. Political judgments are generally vain formalities, for the same passions which give rise to the accusation ordain the condemnation. Such is the atrocious logic of revolutions.

Alexandre Dumas

#5. In statesmanship get formalities right, never mind about the moralities.

Mark Twain

#6. Why did every human concern clog itself up in a tangle of routines, formalities, disciplines, imperatives? Why couldn't one be free? Really free? Guarding one's freedom, wasn't freedom at all. Why couldn't one win one's freedom for good and all, and get on with life?

H.G.Wells

#7. They were a pair of people with no middle ground, nothing between polite formalities and an engulfing intimacy

Alice Munro

#8. As a writer given to the old formalities of rhyme and meter, I sometimes feel endangered these days.

X.J. Kennedy

#9. The formal religions are often overdone, with useless formalities, immature psychological notions, and pompous authorities.

Thomas Moore

#10. Her response confirmed he was right. Vanilla sex wouldn't be her preference. Yes, he was a sexual dominant. But, unlike most of his fellow masters, he could do without the formalities of D/s and slip into "regular" sex if that was what his woman required in the moment.

Elizabeth SaFleur

#11. How fortunate that it was an 'unconventional' party, where formalities are ruled out! On this basis Aziz found the English ladies easy to talk to, he treated them like men. Beauty would have troubled him, but Mrs Moore was so old and Miss Quested so plain that he was spared this anxiety.

E. M. Forster

#12. This incessant creation of restrictive laws and regulations,surrounding the pettiest actions of existence with the most complicated formalities, inevitably has for its result the confining within narrower and narrower limits of the sphere in which the citizen may move freely.

Gustav Le Bon

#13. We've resorted to formalities suddenly? Am I to assume we haven't been
intimate enough for you to call me by my first name?" Despite his casual tone, his eyes suggested so much more. "Perhaps I should rectify that.

Melissa Lurquette

#14. The Christian principles on which the country was primarily founded are rarely consulted other than for formalities of state, derision, or for the purpose of contrasts in the making of new laws.

H. Wayne House

#15. My father always has been attractive because of his energy, warmth, charm, and talent for finding some connection with people from all cultures and walks of life. He rarely observed social formalities and niceties - something he has passed on to his boys.

Ezekiel Emanuel

#16. And now we have the formalities over, we'll have the National Anthems.

Brian Moore

#17. Certain formalities. It is a great delight also to seal up a love-letter, and, slowly putting on one's hat and coat, to go softly out of the house and to carry the treasure to the post.

Anton Chekhov

#18. If the only way a library can offer an Internet exhibit about the New Deal is to hire a lawyer to clear the rights to every image and sound, then the copyright system is burdening creativity in a way that has never been seen before because there are no formalities.

Lawrence Lessig

#19. The officers do not beat the men; the officers and men receive equal treatment. Soldiers are free to hold meetings and speak out. Trivial formalities have been done away with and the accounts are open for all to inspect.

Mao Zedong

#20. [To] me organized religion, the formalities and routines, [is] like being marched in formation to look at a sunset.

John D. MacDonald

#21. You got to set your mind right and the rest will come to you naturally. No restrictions, no hang-ups, no stupid rules, no formalities, no forbidden fruit - just everyone getting and giving as much as he and she can.

Ray Charles

#22. Sometimes I listen to songs by very smart writers who assume that the world is a civil place with certain formalities that people follow, but I don't see things that way. My own experience tells me that life is not like that.

Suzanne Vega

#23. No man is in love when he marries. He may have loved before; I have even heard he has sometimes loved after: but at the time never. There is something in the formalities of the matrimonial preparations that drive away all the little cupidons.

Fanny Burney

#24. It is superstitious to put one's hope in formalities, but arrogant to refuse to submit to them.

Blaise Pascal

#25. There were the meaningless greetings the humans called "formalities": insincere inquiries into the state of health, nebulous benedictions and hopes for past well-being; all compensations for the lack of human Mediators.

Larry Niven

#26. We say God did not intend anyone to be this way - to be gay or lesbian.

John Paulk

#27. If we are tough on crime and on terrorism, as Labour is, then I think Britain will be safer under Labour

Peter Hain

#28. Life is potentially meaningful under any conditions, even those which are most miserable. And this in turn presupposes the human capacity to creatively turn life's negative aspects into something positive or constructive. In other words, what matters is to make the best of any given situation.

Viktor E. Frankl

#29. Sometimes there is such beauty in awkwardness.

Ruta Sepetys

#30. His abhorrence and fear of alcohol did not extend to his power as host. He kept a huge cupboard of drinks in the station house and loved to serve large measures to visiting relatives
especially those he disliked
about which there was a definite element of spreading bait for garden snails.

John McGahern

#31. I am at your service, my lady, I said, standing and releasing her hand. For the first time in my life I understood the true purpose of this sort of formal greeting. It gives you a script to follow when you have absolutely no idea what to say.

Patrick Rothfuss

#32. Mussolini was the greatest political leader of the century.

Gianfranco Fini

#33. Fiestas always began as if they were being held in a parlor, amid teacups.

Warren Eyster

#34. The world is moving ahead on its own without my being aware of it, as if we're playing a game in which everybody else can move only when I have my eyes closed.

Haruki Murakami

#35. It's better to write about things you feel than about things you know about.

L.P. Hartley

#36. Men have their intellectual ancestry, and the likeness of some one of them is forever unexpectedly flashing out in the features of a descendant, it may be after a gap of several centuries. In the parliament of the present every man represents a constituency of the past.

James Russell Lowell