Ceremony was devised at first, to set a gloss on faint deeds, hollow welcomes, and recanting goodness; but where there is true friendship, there needs none.
— Shakespeare
Shakespeare
True friendship needs no ceremony, unlike hollow relationships that rely on show.
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A friend is a person with whom I may think aloud.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
To dispense with ceremony is the most delicate mode of conferring a compliment.
— Bulwer
Ceremonies differ in every country; they are only artificial helps which ignorance assumes to imitate politeness, which …
— Goldsmith
Ceremony is the invention of wise men to keep fools at a distance ; as good breeding is an expedient to make fools and w…
— Richard Steele
Ceremonies are the smoke of friendship.
— Unknown
Ceremony is indispensable in those who have nothing better to recommend them.
— Unknown
