Quotes About Formality

Prince Charles is very relaxed at the table, throwing his salad around willy-nilly. I didn't find him stiff at all.

Who the hell ever dreamed up a tie? It's just such a weird idea, and yet it has been literally hanging around forever as the one constant and boring men's fashion staple.

I've got to tell you, I'm not really a tie man. I'll wear a tie if I have to: If I'm standing in the dock and it looks like I'm facing 20 years, then I'll definitely wear the tie!

I am actually extremely casual in certain environments. But one of the reasons I like living in London, I like the formality of it, as compared to the formality of America - or informality. I like putting on a suit. I like putting on a tie.

A red tie is contrary to the dignity of the tie and of male dress in general.

I grew up in the '60s and '70s when men were required to wear a suit, shirt, and tie every day to be taken seriously. I was at the tail end of that generation, and it had a significant impact on me.

I never go black tie. I never grew up wearing ties or bow ties or anything.

The more ties you wear, the higher rank you are.

The interview is never just a formality. It can absolutely make or break your chances of acceptance.

But this practice [vegetarianism], in which youthful love of austerity finds charm, calls for attentions more complicated than those of culinary refinement itself; and it separates us too much from the common run of men in a function which is nearly always public, and in which either friendship or formality presides.

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Mmm," he said vaguely, trying to sound polite but disinterested.

Mrs. Dudley," the doctor said, putting down his fork, "an admirable soufflé.

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.

Informality is the vice of the masses.

To say that one loves someone else is so easy to say. In fact, that is why it is now a formality. But, to prove it (Love) is not often so easy. Oh! yes, that is just a reality. ~Emeasoba George

I believe the death of Bobby Kennedy was in many ways the death of decency in America. I think it was the death of manners and formality, the death of poetry and the death of a dream.

When you're a child, you crave formal recognition; you crave ceremony, celebration, certification of proof.

la cérémonie des livrées.

If Queen Elizabeth knighthooded me and I would get the title Sir Usain Bolt. That sounds very nice.

People sometimes think of 'queen' as a title that's shrouded with protocol and formality, and for that reason sometimes people are not easily saying what they want to say. They're reluctant to express their opinions, and I kind of find that frustrating because I want to know what people really, really think.

The word majesty was now dropped; but, with the deepest respect and humility, I was addressed as the count. What could I do? I accepted the title, and from that moment I was known as Count Peter.

Gentle reader, allow me to introduce Kyle Murchison Booth. You will forgive him if he does not shake hands.

At dinner, Mr. Marten produced his elegant place cards and assigned us places with the arbitrary ruthlessness of a dictator.