Quotes About Formality

The notion of 'Queen's English' is usually applied to our pronunciation.

The Queen is a true professional and calmly pinned my MBE on.

People take toasting way too seriously - especially the clinking glasses part. There are always a few people who are seated too far away from each other to easily clink.

Arcadio found the formality of death rediculous. Death really did not matter to him but life did, and therefore the sensation he felt when they gave their decision was not a feeling of fear but of nostalgia.

I bear solemn witness to the fact that NATO heads of state and of government meet only to go through the tedious motions of reading speeches, drafted by others, with the principal objective of not rocking the boat.

We've become much more casual and much more relaxed in social interactions, where there was a formality and maybe a kind of respect at that time that doesn't exist now.

Surely an American doesn't want to get it wrong; if there is anything that England stands for, with its quiet central squares, its tweeds and twin sets and teas, the tight-lipped precision of its speech, it is that there is a right way to do things. This is where the right way has its ancestral home.

There was a certain graceful ease and freedom about all he said and did, that gave a sense of repose and expansion to the mind, after so much constraint and formality as I had been doomed to suffer.

she sat opposite, watching me (as I thought) and endeavouring to sustain something like a conversation — consisting chiefly of a succession of commonplace remarks, expressed with frigid formality: but this might be more my fault than hers, for I really could not converse.

How did you ask a man, Oh, by the way, did you ask me to marry you the other day or were you merely suggesting I become your mistress? Formality was the key to surviving this, she hoped.

Killashandra steeled herself for yet another protocologically correct reception.

Your Royal Grace, Forgive my boldness. If I might inquire: How old are you? —Kimber

time making the gesture perfunctory

Even was zelfs heer Anton van zijn protocollaire à propos gebracht.

Formality may seem stuffy but it provides fresh air and freedom

era un hombre rutinario y ordenado. Su minuciosidad y formalidad rozaban sin duda la obsesión; creía que imponer tanta disciplina a su vida cotidiana era la única forma segura de intentar interpretar el desconcierto y el caos que sus pacientes le acercaban a diario.

His words had the ring of formality, and he knew she understood them for what they were. The sideways twitch of her head told him as much, and the slight smile that touched the corners of her eyes but didn't curve her lips.

Nothing more was said. It was evident that Uncle Robert, like Lady Catherine de Bourgh, would say no farewells and make no compliments.

You are not obliged to put on evening clothes to meet God.

Ronald Reagan would never go into the Oval Office without his jacket on - that's how much he revered the presidency.

Going to the court is not like going to the grocery store.

When you're young, the blue blazer feels like a grown-up costume.

Mrs. Stelling was not a loving, tender-hearted woman; she was a woman whose skirt sat well, who adjusted her waist and patted her curls with a preoccupied air when she inquired after your welfare.

As far as I'm concerned, 'whom' is a word that was invented to make everyone sound like a butler.