Convention Quotes

“Criticism surprises the soul in the arms of convention.”

— George Santayana

Jesus Christ, is this an NPR convention?

— Jack White

The calendar? A mere convention.

— Irina Ratushinskaya

“Yielding to convention yields nothing new.”

— Rich DiSilvio

“Convention loves invention, but dares not take it home.”

— Amy Lapwing

An ounce of convention is worth a pound of explanation.

— Ethel Mumford

Society's the mother of convention.

— Carolyn Wells

“good convention, with the military class and the”

— James D. Best

Art flouts convention. Convention became convention because it works.

— Stewart Brand

For the film maker must come by his convention, as painters and writers and musicians have done before him.

— Virginia Woolf

Thou shalt free thyself from convention, from everyday morality.

— Karen Horney

what was time but a convention, a habit of mind, a custom of dress?

— Erica Jong

The Convention thought it wrong to admit in the Constitution the idea that there could be property in men.

— James Madison

A political convention is just not a place where you come away with any trace of faith in human nature.

— Murray Kempton

“We annihilate convention in order to experience the truth of otherness.”

— Carolyn Chun

If you back out of a convention... you can't dodge your obligation. Torture is still not acceptable.

— Peter Maurer

I call for greater measures to involve more women at higher levels in mine action. Governments should do more to address gender…

— Ban Ki-moon

“was never one for accepting convention at face value, but through (plenty of) trial and error I have made working hard, being…

— Sophia Amoruso

The Republicans need all the entertainment help they can get. When Charlie Daniels was one of your convention headliners, you know you…

— Shawn Amos

No one familiar with the common law of England can read the Constitution of the United States without observing the great desire…

— Samuel Freeman Miller

Anonymity is a universal convention of the blogosphere, and the wicked expedience is that you can speak without consequences.

— Lee Siegel

If we examine the Hague Convention carefully, we see that it considers the offer of good offices a duty of every nation.…

— Charles Albert Gobat

“He pulled back the sleeve of his jacket and glanced at his vintage watch tick away the seconds in a conventional way,…

— Bruce Crown

Fashion has always been in conflict with convention. Style involves some knowledge of both. But you can pretty much forget these seasonal…

— Russell Smith

When I was getting ready for the release of 'Deadline,' when it was coming out soon, I decided that the appropriate way…

— Seanan McGuire

Our democracy, our culture, our whole way of life is a spectacular triumph of the blah. Why not have a political convention…

— P. J. O'Rourke

I think that Richard Nixon is a great man and that he is very dedicated to what he does. I had the…

— Laraine Day

We are people, individuals comprising a variety of sexes, races, shifting sexualities and all the rest of it. Every convention that tries…

— Robert Webb

No convention gets to be a convention at all except by grace of a lot of clever and powerful people first inventing…

— Katharine Fullerton Gerould

“If our thoughts are slumping down into a muddling pie of oblivion, we must empower our minds to go beyond vain details…

— Erik Pevernagie

Three times a year, there's Strategicon convention, and I go for the board games. It happens Presidents Day, Labor Day, and Memorial…

— Rich Sommer

“If tonight teaches us anything, it is that convention has held us back. We have bowed at the altar of caution and…

— Zohran Mamdani

“Anyhow, whether undergraduate or shop boy, man or woman, it must come as a shock about the age of twenty—the world of…

— Virginia Woolf

“... as a convention, you get up and walk to the window to make the audience believe that you're looking out. It's…

— Sanford Meisner

“It is natural to care for those who have cared for us, but at the point a man has been dead a…

— Joshua Gibbs

“He needed the people and the clamour around him. There was no questions and no doubts when he stood on a platform…

— Ayn Rand

“But what if, either by choice or by reluctant necessity, you end up not participating in this comforting cycle of family and…

— Elizabeth Gilbert

A convention is a social pattern we have chosen to prefer over whatever the raw world simply proffers. It is a sign…

— A. Bartlett Giamatti

“It is not only the hostility of others that may prevent us from questioning the status quo. Our will to doubt can…

— Alain de Botton

“In actual fact, conventions are the death of real tradition as they are of all real life. They are parasites which attach…

— Thomas Merton