Formality Quotes

“If formality and courtesy take over the feelings . . . how silly and meaningless these things could become. And despite all this, I still take part in it!”

“If only there was a way to escape this reality, if only there was a way to erase all this formality, if only there was a way to figure out your mentality, if only there was a way to rid all the theatricality,if only...however sadly all we think of is practicality, so we will never reach any finality.”

“Believers should be open to and encourage the Spirit's moving within each one, including the spontaneity from individual initiatives when gathered together. Believers need to be vigilant to prevent formality of liturgy where the Spirit is stifled, and individual initiatives are not allowed.”

“If only there was a way to escape this reality, if only there was a way to erase all this formality, if only there was a way to figure out your mentality, if only there was a way to rid all the theatricality, if only...however sadly all we think of is practicality, so we will never reach any finality.”

“Friendship is neither a formality nor a mode: it is rather a life.”

“The world is a merrier place to live if people do things more out of sincerity, not just out of formality.”

“When thanksgiving is filled with true meaning and is not just the formality of a polite “thank you,” it is the recognition of dependence.”

“...there remained a strange formality between them, and her pleasure in his presence felt too much like missing him had felt during the last week.”

“I like to introduce myself, because THEN I can get in all the facts." The usually self-deprecating John Hay on the ironic formality of signing his own commission as Secretary of State.”