Quotes About Convention

'Love' is so short of perfect rhymes that convention allows half-rhymes like 'move.' The alternative is a plague of doves, or a kind of poem in which the poet addresses his adored both as 'love' and as 'guv' - a perfectly decent solution once, but only once, in a while.

It's the geek who gets the girl, not the jock.

one's rules of propriety make one thirst for the improper.

A sane person didn't stand under a tree; they didn't allow the cat in the house; and above all, they did not take a bath in a storm.

Any form of art can only develop by means of single mutations by individual creators. If only traditional conventions are used an art will die, and the widening of an art form is bound to seem strange at first, and awkward. Any growing thing must go through awkward stages. The creator who is misunderstood because of his breach of convention may say to himself, 'I seem strange to you, but anyway I am alive.

Suffragist Susan B. Anthony introduced her as a living legend at the twenty-eighth annual convention of the New York State Women's Suffrage Association, held in 1904.

As a Democratic member of Congress, I have a vote at the Democratic National Convention as a superdelegate.

There's a fine line between what would characterize you as a troglodyte and what would characterize you as a brilliant, avant-garde, forward-thinking genius. There's some middle ground.

But this encompassment of her own characterization, based on shreds of convention, peopled by phantoms and voices antipathetic to her, was a sorry and mistaken creation of Tess's fancy—a cloud of moral hobgoblins by which she was terrified without reason.

I can imagine Herr Settembrini coming in suddenly and turning on the light, to let reason and convention reign—it is a weakness of his.

Nada hay más extraño ni más delicado que la relación de las personas que sólo se conocen de vista, que se encuentran y se observan cada día, a todas horas, y, no obstante, se ven obligadas, ya sea por convencionalismo social o por capricho propio, a fingir una indiferente extrañeza y a no intercambiar saludo ni palabra alguna.

Yours truly" benefits from a lack of any specific silly meaning. It is as rooted in convention as "Dear George," and useful for that reason.

Happiness and contentment, equability of mind and meaningfulness of life – these can be experienced only by the individual and not by a State, which, on the one hand, is nothing but a convention agreed to by independent individuals, and on the other, continually threatens to paralyse and suppress the individual.

the shadow is merely somewhat inferior, primitive, unadapted, and awkward; not wholly bad. It even contains . . .qualities which would in a way vitalize and embellish human existence, but convention forbids!

But the shadow is merely somewhat inferior, primitive, unadapted, and awkward; not wholly bad. It even contains childish or primitive qualities which would in a way vitalize and embellish human existence, but convention forbids!

Es asombrosa la cantidad de baratijas convencionales a las que recurrimos al expresarnos por impreso. La mayoría de los escritores asumen la expresión de quienes posan para el retrato de un pintor. Recorridos de la pose y el compromiso, escalón por escalón.

Curran decided to go as what he referred to as a "redshirt." Apparently it was the term for some sort of disposable attendant from some old TV show.

I wanted to drag us all down into some common pool of feeling, I wanted to stop this conventional machine of awful insincere politeness.

Mary thought suddenly, this is an abomination, sitting here and having this conventional conversation when I feel so desperate and deprived and torn inside. She thought, is there nothing I can do about it?

Awright Al? I asked him. A silly question really. Convention always imposes its lunacy on us at such inappropriate times.

The word 'tradition' covered it all, as it covered so many things, some useful, some foolish.

Lloró creyendo que lloraba por el niño muerto y por Alma, pero lo hacía por sí mismo, por su vida mesurada y convencional, por el peso de las responsabilidades que nunca podría sacudirse de encima, por la soledad que lo agobiaba desde que nació, por el amor que añoraba y nunca tendría, por los naipes engañosos que le habían tocado y por todas las malditas tretas de su destino.

You censure this with difficulty because you have allowed it to become customary.

Custom is the law of fools.