Agreement Quote by Carol Bellamy

Convention is another name for the habits of society.

— Rosamond Lehmann

Conventions are unstated agreements within a community to abide by a single way of doing things - not because there is any inherent advantage…

— Steven Pinker

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

— Katharine Fullerton Gerould

Conventions are like coins, an easy way of dealing with the commerce of relations.

— Freya Stark

There is nothing sacred about convention; there is nothing sacred about primitive passions or whims; but the fact that a convention exists indicates that…

— George Santayana

Convention is the ruler of all.

— Pindar

I don't believe in convention at all. I do what I have to do to stay alive.

— Quentin Crisp

Unlike other countries, it was founded on written proclamations. America is an ideal as well as a republic. Its documents are open to revisions.…

— Christopher Hitchens

A convention is an agreed-upon falsehood, a permitted lie.

— Thornton Wilder

As a country we have more of a political constitution than a legal one, and as such it operates via conventions and precedents.

— Gina Miller

“As a rule, conventions only become conventions if they work.”

— Steve Krug