Quotes about Convention

either you obey rules imposed from the outside, or you discover the deepest longings of your own heart and try to go with them. Most of us wobble about between the two, obeying at least some of the rules either because we think God wants us to or because of social convention, but reverting to pursuing our own dreams, our own fulfillment, when given the chance.

Either we serve the unconditional / Or some Hitlerian monster will supply / An iron convention to do evil by.

It would have marked a want of foresight in the convention, which our own experience would have rendered inexcusable.

He is of what is called the old school - a phrase generally meaning any school that seems never to have been young.

And a cool four thousand, Pip!" I never discovered from whom Joe derived the conventional temperature of the four thousand pounds, but it appeared to make the sum of money more to him, and he had a manifest relish in insisting on its being cool.

I'd as soon write free verse as play tennis with the net down.

There is no such thing as liberty,' she heard the quiet, deep, dangerous voice of Don Ramón repeating. 'There is no such thing as liberty. The greatest liberators are usually slaves of an idea. The freest people are slaves to convention and public opinion, and more still, slaves to the industrial machine. There is no such thing as liberty. You only change one sort of domination for another. All we can do is to choose our master.

There is no such thing as liberty. The greatest liberators are usually slaves of an idea. The freest people are slaves to convention and public opinion, and more still, slaves to the industrial machine. There is no such thing as liberty. You only change one sort of domination for another. All we can do is to choose our master.

One may go against convention, but one must keep up tradition.

Learn the rule like a pro so you can break them like an artist.

What makes a good work of art is something that honors certain traditions and breaks with others.

Custom is second nature.