Famous quotes containing the words formal and/or occasions:
“The bed is now as public as the dinner table and governed by the same rules of formal confrontation.”
—Angela Carter (1940–1992)
“There are some occasions in which a man must tell half his secret, in order to conceal the rest; but there is seldom one in which a man should tell all. Great skill is necessary to know how far to go, and where to stop.”
—Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl Chesterfield (1694–1773)