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“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.”

Men Way Wells Stills Wealth Pleasure Clothes Fake Confused Formal Describing Informality

Author:Peter York

“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.”

“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.”

People Want Needs Giving Years Has Beens Order Fun Offers Restaurants Just One Dishes Day To Day Informality

Author:Ferran Adria

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

World Made Today Stranger Manners World Today Informality

Book:Death of an Old Sinner

Source: Death of an Old Sinner

“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.”

Ifs Knows Kind Use Able Certain Conditions New York Range Just Live Formality Foils Informality

Author:David Adjaye

“'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”

Important Values Grace Intellectual Dislike Bloody Distrust Australian Indicators Friendliness Informality

Author:Kate Burridge

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

May Seems Emotion Built Meetings Formidable Grids Binders Informality

Book:Jack: What I've learned leading a great company and great people

Source: Jack: What I've learned leading a great company and great people

“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.”

Reason America Certain Environment London Suits Ties Casual Formality Informality

Author:Tom Ford

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

Kind Hate I Hate Conventional Dressings Snob Dressing Up Informality

Author:Orson Welles

“There is no worse material poverty than one that does not allow for earning one’s bread and deprives one of the dignity of work. Youth unemployment, informality, and the lack of labor rights are not inevitable; they are the result of a previous social option, of an economic system that puts profit above man; if the profit is economic, to put it above humanity or above man, is the effect of a disposable culture that considers the human being in himself as a consumer good, which can be used and then discarded.”