Conventionality Quotes

35 Conventionality quotes by 32 unique authors

Conventionality is not morality. — Charlotte Bronte
He who would be a man must therefore be a non-conformist. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
Doubt the conventional wisdom unless you can verify it with reason and experiment — Steve Albini
What worse illness can there be than acute conventionality. You should pray every night that you don't wake up with it. — George Weinberg
There is a bond of fellowship in sorrow that knows no conventionality. — Harold Bell Wright
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
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
What greater reassurance can the weak have than that they are like anyone else? — Eric Hoffer
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
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
I want to emphasize the idea of black as intellectuality and conventionality. — Ad Reinhardt
People should think things out fresh and not just accept conventional terms and the conventional way of doing things. — R. Buckminster Fuller
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
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
Historically, Alaska is a place that has attracted those fed up with conventionality. — Bill O'Reilly
Conventional people are roused to fury by departure from convention, largely because they regard such departure as a criticism of themselves. — Bertrand Russell
Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new. — Henry David Thoreau
The truth is, I often like women. I like their unconventionality. I like their completeness. I like their anonymity. — Virginia Woolf
…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
Conventionality is not morality. Self-righteousness is not religion. To attack the first is not to assail the last. — Charlotte Bronte
I am not talking to you now through the medium of custom, conventionalities, nor even of mortal flesh: it is my spirit that addresses your… — Charlotte Bronte
Your work should be an act of love, not a marriage of convenience. — Haruki Murakami
Life, my dear Watson, is infinitely stranger than fiction; stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent. We could not conceive the things… — Arthur Conan Doyle
The conventionality of the English is something I find unattractive - the whole lack of joy in the physical. — Denholm Elliott

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