Conventional Quotes

432 Conventional quotes by 390 unique authors

All I wanted was a little piece of life, to be married, to have children.... I was trying my damnedest to lead a conventional life,… — Anne Sexton
Adultery is a most conventional way to rise above the conventional. — Vladimir Nabokov
When machines fail, when technology fails, when the conventional religion fails, people have got to have something. Even a zombin lurching through the night can… — Stephen King
Then idiots talk....of Energy. If there is a word in the dictionary under any letter from A to Z that I abominate, it is energy.… — Charles Dickens
A woman cannot live in the light of intellect. Society forbids it. Those conventional frivolities, which are called her 'duties', forbid it. Her 'domestic duties',… — Florence Nightingale
Who can begin conventional amiability the first thing in the morning? — Elizabeth von Arnim
Stories set in the Culture in which Things Went Wrong tended to start with humans losing or forgetting or deliberately leaving behind their terminal. It… — Iain Banks
By morning she was dead. She had not died of starvation or committed suicide by any conventional means. She had simply willed herself to die,… — John Berendt
I see the beauty of Mike's attempt to devise an ideal ethic and applaud his recognition that such must start by junking the present sexual… — Robert A. Heinlein
...When our thoughts revolve we are so often deceived into supposing that their violent movement is an indication of their vigorous originality, the upheaval of… — Janet Frame
Yes, I laugh at all mankind, and the imposition that they dare to practice when they talk of hearts. I laugh at human passions and… — Charles Robert Maturin
The wizards represent all that the true 'muggle' most fears: They are plainly outcasts and comfortable with being so. Nothing is more unnerving to the… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
It is our task, both in science and in society at large, to prove the conventional wisdom wrong and to make our unpredictable dreams come… — Freeman Dyson
I think you will learn to be natural with me, as I find it impossible to be conventional with you — Charlotte Bronte
Suspense is like a woman. The more left to the imagination, the more the excitement. ... The conventional big-bosomed blonde is not mysterious. And what… — Alfred Hitchcock
The conventional explanation for Jewish success, of course, is that Jews come from a literate, intellectual culture. They are famously "the people of the book."… — Malcolm Gladwell
What the meat industry figured out is that you don't need healthy animals to make a profit. Sick animals are more profitable... Factory farms calculate… — Jonathan Safran Foer
The Heart of Gold fled on silently through the night of space, now on conventional photon drive. Its crew of four were ill as ease… — Douglas Adams
Great spirits have always encountered opposition from mediocre minds. The mediocre mind is incapable of understanding the man who refuses to bow blindly to conventional… — Albert Einstein
You were probably educated in the conventional economic theories of your period which were magnificent and most ingenious, but--if you will pardon my saying so--all… — Robert A. Heinlein
The conventional wisdom is often wrong. — Steven Levitt
When the white man turns tyrant it is his own freedom that he destroys.He becomes a sort of hollow,posing dummy,the conventional figure of a sahib.For… — George Orwell
Our English monarchs are so unimaginative,” said Eldric. “They execute people in such tediously conventional ways. — Franny Billingsley
You will be interested to hear, Hilary, that it [the drug] had a most remarkable effect — even on Selena after a very modest quantity.… — Sarah Caudwell
Beauty is something that is hard to debate. Every man thinks his ideal the best. But the wittiest woman rise to the top of this… — Anne Mallory

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