Informality Quotes:

It excites world wonder in the Parliamentary countries that we should build a Chamber, starting afresh, which can only seat two-thirds of its Members. It is difficult to explain this to those who do not know our ways. They cannot easily be made to understand why we consider that the intensity, passion, intimacy, informality and spontaneity of our Debates constitute the personality of the House of Commons and endow it at once with its focus and its strength.

- Winston Churchill

source: "Motion for Address in Reply". Speech in the House of Commons, api.parliament.uk. October 24, 1950.

topic: Country, Passion, Two, Informality, House Of Commons

I love informality. I hate dressing up. I hate to be conventional - and I hate every kind of snob.

- Orson Welles

topic: Hate, Dressing Up, Kind, Informality

The binders, the charts, the grids may seem formidable, but the meetings themselves are built around informality, trust, emotion and humor.

- Jack Welch

source: Jack Welch (2014). “Jack: What I've learned leading a great company and great people”, p.143, Hachette UK

topic: May, Emotion, Grids, Informality, Binders

I don't approve the informality in the world today, Mr. James. It's made strangers of us all.

- Dorothy Salisbury Davis

source: Dorothy Salisbury Davis (2014). “Death of an Old Sinner”, p.245, Open Road Media

topic: World, Today, Stranger, Informality

There is no worse material poverty, I am keen to stress, than the poverty which prevents people from earning their bread and deprives them of the dignity of work.

- Pope Francis

source: Pope Francis' address to the Centesimus Annus pro Pontifice Foundation at the Clementine Hall, w2.vatican.va. May 25, 2013.

topic: Stress, Dignity Of Work, People, Informality, Disposable

'Bloody' has now become an important indicator of Australianness and of cultural values such as friendliness, informality, laid-backness, mateship - and perhaps even the Australian dislike and distrust of verbal and intellectual graces

- Kate Burridge

topic: Grace, Intellectual, Important, Informality, Indicators

There was a time when formal clothes were one of life's great pleasures, as well as a way of describing instantly a man's status wealth. Toffs wore the most, the proles the least. Fast forward to 2008 and clothes are still an unrivalled pleasure but some men - and this includes many of our betters - have confused status with fake informality.

- Peter York

topic: Confused, Men, Clothes, Informality

I am actually extremely casual in certain environments. But one of the reasons I like living in London, I like the formality of it, as compared to the formality of America - or informality. I like putting on a suit. I like putting on a tie.

- Tom Ford

topic: America, Ties, London, Informality, Formality

If you just live in New York and you only know New York, you know a certain kind of condition of formality and informality. By being able to go to another context and to be able to use that as a counter foil to the context you know, you are about to see a wider range.

- David Adjaye

source: Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

topic: New York, Able, Use, Informality, Foils

In more day-to-day restaurants, things have undergone a seismic change towards informality and sharing, which has been years in the making. Nowadays, people don't want just one dish; they want to order lots of things and they want to do it in fun places, places that give them an experience. The experience that a restaurant needs to offer is no longer just based around the food.

- Ferran Adria

topic: Fun, Order, Years, Informality