Quotes About Informality

Well, I never wear shoes at home. Never.

The historian Hugh Trevor Roper, who visited often, described the atmosphere as 'friendly informality verging on apparent anarchy'. One military policeman famously mistook Bletchley for a military asylum. Turing

I don't like to hold too much formality in concerts. It's not that I don't like seeing people who are really polished and put together. But I'm more excited by things that are a little bit breaking apart as you're watching them.

There was a time when formal clothes were one of life's great pleasures, as well as a way of describing instantly a man's status wealth. Toffs wore the most, the proles the least. Fast forward to 2008 and clothes are still an unrivalled pleasure but some men - and this includes many of our betters - have confused status with fake informality.

I hate wearing shirts.

Over the last couple of decades, the personalization of the office changed dramatically... there's an informality people often take for the absence of rules - which it's not.

At a meeting in a formal, hierarchical setting, a powerful player can get away with killing a good idea. But informality encourages people to test their thinking, to experiment, and to cross-check.

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People read informality as, 'Do whatever you feel like,' and whatever you feel like might be disastrous.

What does it take for you and others to relax? It may be talking over a drink, or meeting at a vacation lodge in some picturesque spot, or dressing less formally during the meeting and calling one another by your first names.

There was a discouraging lack of formality, or any sort of organization, to this place.

The ascot connotes informality. It is something one might wear at a cocktail party in one's own flat but is not something you wear out in public.

Because I'm busy, I don't sit down to a lot of big formal meals - unless I've got mates round, in which case I'll cook something.

In general, I don't like formality at all.

Texting is very loose in its structure. No one thinks about capital letters or punctuation when one texts, but then again, do you think about those things when you talk?

I eat with my hands when I am home alone!

I won't usually make plans with people I don't know on Fridays because all I want to do is stick my hair in a ponytail and put on a big sweater, some tights and a pair of sneakers after a week working in the city.

Today was the first day of summer, she realized, her spirits lifting like a kite. She loved milestones of any sort: birthdays, anniversaries, holidays, checks on the calendar, notches on a growth chart. Today would be special, brand new. She felt it deep inside. Summer was here with sunny days and balmy nights, the informality of barbecues and dips in the swimming pool. She was so relieved to have the grind of the school year finished. She missed playing with her children.

Here in L.A., people really open their houses in an easy way, nothing too complicated. You can go in your flip-flops.

the informality of his posture, combined with the strict formality of his clothes, gave him an air of superlative elegance. His was the only face that had the carefree look and the brilliant smile proper to the enjoyment of a party; but his eyes seemed intentionally expressionless, holding no trace of gaiety, showing—like a warning signal—nothing but the activity of a heightened perceptiveness.

I love informality. I hate dressing up. I hate to be conventional - and I hate every kind of snob.

I like loose clothes, loose company, and loose talk, and to hell with the people who don't.

Yet the informality belies the truth: everyone, with the exception of Adolf Hitler, is terrified. "You felt it to the point of physical illness," one German officer will later write. "Nothing was authentic except fear." And

I despise formal restaurants. I find all of that formality to be very base and vile. I would much rather eat potato chips on the sidewalk.