Ceremony
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Ceremony is an event of ritual significance, performed on a special occasion.
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- Ritual and ceremony in their due times kept the world under the sky and the stars in their courses. It was astonishing what ritual and ceremony could do.
- Terry Pratchett, Discworld, Pyramids (1989).
- What infinite heart's ease
Must kings neglect, that private men enjoy?
And what have kings that privates have not too,
Save ceremony, save general ceremony?- William Shakespeare, Henry V (c. 1599), Act IV, scene 1, line 253.
- What art thou, thou idol ceremony?
What kind of god art thou, that suffer'st more
Of mortal griefs than do thy worshippers?- William Shakespeare, Henry V (c. 1599), Act IV, scene 1, line 257.
- O ceremony, show me but thy worth!
What is thy soul of adoration?
Art thou aught else but place, degree, and form,
Creating awe and fear in other men?- William Shakespeare, Henry V (c. 1599), Act IV, scene 1, line 261.
- When love begins to sicken and decay,
It useth an enforced ceremony,
There are no tricks in plain and simple faith.- William Shakespeare, Julius Cæsar (1599), Act IV, scene 2, line 20.
- To feed were best at home;
From thence the sauce to meat is ceremony;
Meeting were bare without it.- William Shakespeare, Macbeth (1605), Act III, scene 4, line 36.
- Ceremony was but devised at first
To set a gloss on faint deeds, hollow welcomes,
Recanting goodness, sorry ere 'tis shown;
But where there is true friendship, there needs none.- William Shakespeare, Timon of Athens (date uncertain, published 1623), Act I, scene 2, line 15.
- I discover that hardly a week passes that some one does not start a new cult, or revive an old one; if I had a hundred life-times I could not know all the creeds and ceremonies, the services and rituals, the litanies and liturgies, the hymns, anthems and offertories of Bootstrap-lifting.
- Upton Sinclair, The Profits of Religion : An Essay in Economic Interpretation (1918), Introductory, "Bootstrap-lifting".
