Conventionality Quotes
35 quotes by 32 authors
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Conventionality is not morality.
— Charlotte Bronte
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He who would be a man must therefore be a non-conformist.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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This was life! Ah, how he loved it! Civilization held nothing like this in its narrow and circumscribed sphere, hemmed in by restrictions and conventionalities.…
— Edgar Rice Burroughs
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Doubt the conventional wisdom unless you can verify it with reason and experiment
— Steve Albini
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What worse illness can there be than acute conventionality. You should pray every night that you don't wake up with it.
— George Weinberg
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There is a bond of fellowship in sorrow that knows no conventionality.
— Harold Bell Wright
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Here society is reduced to its original elements, the whole fabric of art and conventionality is struck rudely to pieces, and men find themselves suddenly…
— Francis Parkman
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USAGE, n. The First Person of the literary Trinity, the Second and Third being Custom and Conventionality. Imbued with a decent reverence for this Holy…
— Ambrose Bierce
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What greater reassurance can the weak have than that they are like anyone else?
— Eric Hoffer
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England is so surrounded by the boredom of conventionalities, that it is all one to them whether music is good or bad, since they have…
— Frederic Chopin
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Nobody can live in society without conventions. The reason why sensible people are as conventional as they can bear to be is that conventionality saves…
— George Bernard Shaw
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I want to emphasize the idea of black as intellectuality and conventionality.
— Ad Reinhardt
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People should think things out fresh and not just accept conventional terms and the conventional way of doing things.
— R. Buckminster Fuller
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Why can't somebody give us a list of things that everybody thinks and nobody says, and another list of things that everybody says and nobody…
— Oliver Wendell Holmes
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The world is put back by the death of every one who has to sacrifice the development of his or her peculiar gifts to conventionality.
— Florence Nightingale
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Historically, Alaska is a place that has attracted those fed up with conventionality.
— Bill O'Reilly
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Conventional people are roused to fury by departure from convention, largely because they regard such departure as a criticism of themselves.
— Bertrand Russell
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Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new.
— Henry David Thoreau
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The truth is, I often like women. I like their unconventionality. I like their completeness. I like their anonymity.
— Virginia Woolf
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…She was, obviously, one of those women whose polished words may reflect a book club or bridge club, or any other deadly conventionality, but never…
— Vladimir Nabokov
Who Wrote These Conventionality Quotes
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