Top 12 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.

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.

Vera Wang

Play, Pageantry, Roles

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

Aldous Huxley

Art, Political, Pageantry

Aldous Huxley (1956). “Heaven and hell”

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

Julie Burchill

Funeral, Pageantry, Masquerade

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

Charles Spurgeon

Damn You, Pageantry, Doe

Spurgeon, Charles H. “The Complete Works of C. H. Spurgeon, Volume 46: Sermons 2603-2655”, Delmarva Publications, Inc.

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

Peter Sellers

Life, Pageantry, Cold

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

John Milton

Caring, Air, Pageantry

'L'Allegro' (1645) l. 125

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

John Milton

Long, Soul, Pageantry

'L'Allegro' (1645) l. 125

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!

Elijah Fenton

Real, Pageantry, Poverty

Edmund Smith, Mr. John Dryden, Mr. Elijah Fenton, Richard Steele (1750). “A Select Collection of the Best Modern English Plays: Vol. VI.”, p.61

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

Al Gore

Inspirational, Pageantry, Red

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

Adam Lambert

Order, Idols, Pageantry

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.

Buzz Bissinger

Pageantry, Emotion, Wonderful