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«There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea»
Author: Henry James | Keywords: afternoon, afternoons, afternoon tea, agreeable, ceremony, dedicated, dedicates, dedicating, hours, known as, tea
«The notion of religious liberty is that you cannot be forced to participate in a religious ceremony that's not of your choosing simply because you're out-voted»
Author: Ira Glasser | About: Liberty, Religion | Keywords: ceremony, choosing, notion, participate, religious ceremony, religious liberty, voted
«Things fall apart; the center cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere The ceremony of innocence is drowned; The best lack all conviction, while the worst Are full of passionate intensity»
Author: William Butler Yeats (Dramatist, Poet, Writer) | About: Anarchy | Keywords: anarchy, bad blood, center, ceremony, conviction, dimmed, dimming, dims, drowned, fall apart, innocence, intensities, intensity, loosed, passionate, The Anarchy, The Center, Things Fall Apart, tide
«To dispense with ceremony is the most delicate mode of conferring a compliment»
Author: Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton | About: Compliments | Keywords: ceremony, conferring, dispense with, mode
«Those who marry God can become domesticated too / it's just as hum-drum a marriage as all the others. The word ''Love'' means a formal touch of the lips as in the ceremony of the Mass, and ''Ave Maria '' like ''dearest'' is a phrase to open a letter. This marriage like the world's marriages was held together by habits and tastes shared in common between God and themselves / it was God's taste to be worshipped and their taste to worship, but only at stated hours like a suburban embrace on a Saturday night.»
Author: Graham Greene | Keywords: Ave, Ave Maria, ceremony, common touch, dearest, domesticate, domesticated, drum, formal, hold dear, Marriages, marriage ceremony, opening ceremony, open letter, Saturday, stated, tastes, worshipped
«Marriage: a ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the gentleman»
Author: Herbert Spencer (Philosopher) | About: Marriage | Keywords: ceremony, marriage ceremony, nose ring, rings, the finger, The Lady, The Nose
«PRESENTABLE, adj. Hideously appareled after the manner of the time and place. In Boorioboola-Gha a man is presentable on occasions of ceremony if he have his abdomen painted a bright blue and wear a cow's tail; in New York he may, if it please him, omit the paint, but after sunset he must wear two tails made of the wool of a sheep and dyed black.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce (Editor, Journalist, Writer) | Keywords: abdomen, appareled, black sheep, bright blue, ceremony, dyed, Gha, hideously, omit, presentable, sunset, tails
«RITE, n. A religious or semi-religious ceremony fixed by law, precept or custom, with the essential oil of sincerity carefully squeezed out of it.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce (Editor, Journalist, Writer) | Keywords: ceremony, essential oil, precept, religious ceremony, rite, semi, squeezed
«Not every religion has to have St. Augustine's attitude to sex. Why even in our culture marriages are celebrated in a church, everyone present knows what is going to happen that night, but that doesn't prevent it being a religious ceremony.»
Author: Ludwig Wittgenstein | Keywords: Augustine, celebrated, ceremony, Marriages, marriage ceremony, religious ceremony, St. Augustine, St Augustine
«The sauce to meat is ceremony; Meeting were bare without it»
Author: William Shakespeare (Dramatist, Playwright, Poet) | Keywords: bare, ceremony, meat, meeting, sauce, sauces
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