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Pageantry is a visionary art which has been used, from time immemorial, as a political instrument. -- Aldous Huxley
If peace . . . only had the music and pageantry of war, there'd be no wars. -- Sophie Kerr
A wedding is a funeral which masquerades as a feast. And the greater the pageantry, the deeper the savagery. -- Julie Burchill
If your religion does not make you holy, it will damn you. It is simply painted pageantry to go to hell in. -- Charles Spurgeon
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
And pomp, and feast, and revelry, With mask, and antique pageantry, Such sights as youthful poets dream On summer eves by haunted stream. -- John Milton
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
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
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. -- Al Gore
I think that it's okay to be mad at someone who hurt you. This isn't about, like, the pageantry of trying to seem like nothing affects you. -- Taylor Swift
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
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
If war has its chivalry and its pageantry, it has also its hideousness and its demoniac woe. Bullets respect not beauty. They tear out the eye, and shatter the jaw, and rend the cheek. -- John Stevens Cabot Abbott
Sun worship is fairly simple. There's no mystery, no miracles, no pageantry, no one asks for money, there are no songs to learn, and we don't have a special building where we all gather once a week to pare compare clothing. -- George Carlin
To be ambitious of true honor and of the real glory and perfection of our nature is the very principle and incentive of virtue; but to be ambitious of titles, place, ceremonial respects, and civil pageantry, is as vain and little as the things are which we court -- Philip Sidney
The office of President is a great one; to every true American it seems the greatest on earth. And to me, as I was engaged in weaving a background of music for the pageantry of it, there came a deeper realization of the effect of that office on the man. -- John Philip Sousa
the twelve or fifteen millions in the British Empire, who, while they possess no electoral rights, are yet persuaded they are freemen, and who are mystified into the notion that they are not political bondmen, by that great juggle of the ' English Constitution ' a thing of monopolies, and Church-craft, and sinecures, armorial hocus-pocus, primogeniture, and pageantry! -- Richard Cobden
Books -lighthouses erected in the great sea of time -books, the precious depositories of the thoughts and creations of genius -books, by whose sorcery times past become time present, and the whole pageantry of the world's history moves in solemn procession before our eyes, -these were to visit the firesides of the humble and lavish the treasures of the intellect upon the poor. -- Edwin Percy Whipple
If peace only had the music and pageantry of war, there'd be no wars. -- Sophie Kerr
War is a kind of superstition, the pageantry of arms and badges corrupts the imagination of men. -- Percy Bysshe Shelley
What an electric thrill it sends up and down the spine, how it sets the heart racing: A Royal Romance! A Royal Wedding! The pomp and the pageantry! -- Hamish Bowles
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

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