Pageantry Quotes

Even the most understated ceremony involves a certain respect for ritual and pageantry. No one plays more of a significant role than the bride's attendants.

Pageantry is a visionary art which has been used, from time immemorial, as a political instrument.

A wedding is a funeral which masquerades as a feast. And the greater the pageantry, the deeper the savagery.

If your religion does not make you holy, it will damn you. It is simply painted pageantry to go to hell in.

Such as the meeting soul may pierce, In notes with many a winding bout Of linked sweetness long drawn out.

And ever against eating cares Lap me in soft Lydian airs, Married to immortal verse

O blissful poverty! Nature, too partial! to thy lot assigns Health, freedom, innocence, and downy peace, Her real goods; and only mocks the great, With empty pageantries!

There's a certain level of pageantry with 'Idol,' and in order to work the show, you kind of have to feed into it.

I am old enough to know that a red carpet is just a rug.

You'll catch your death of cold. Clouseau: Yes, yes I probably will but . . . its all part of life's rich pageantry, you kneau.

Athletics: it's a wonderful thing, it's a spell-binding thing, nothing in life has quite as much pageantry, as much emotion within a finite time frame, it's incredibly exciting.

I'm old enough to know that a red carpet's just a rug, and I've been able to enjoy the pageantry without letting it go to my head.