Formal Speech

Famous quotes containing the words formal and/or speech:

    “The formal Washington dinner party has all the spontaneity of a Japanese imperial funeral.”
    —Simon Hoggart (b. 1946)

    “What of the heart without her? Nay, poor heart,
    Of thee what word remains ere speech be still?
    A wayfarer by barren ways and chill,
    Steep ways and weary, without her thou art,
    Where the long cloud, the long wood’s counterpart,
    Sheds doubled darkness up the labouring hill.”
    —Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828–1882)