Conventionality Quotes

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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
If you are not gonna tell the truth,at least tell me a convincing lie. — Abhishek Tiwari
If we're waiting for the most convenient time to say I LOVE YOU, we may never find one. — Terry Mark
When people say they do not care what others think of them, for the most part they deceive themselves. Generally they mean only that they… — William Somerset Maugham
Call on literary convention, and it will gladly tell your story for you. — Mason Cooley
All human rules are more or less idiotic. — Mark Twain
The seven deadly sins: Want of money, bad health, bad temper, chastity, family ties, knowing that you know things, and believing I n the Christian… — Samuel Butler
The barriers of conventionality have been raised so high, and so strangely cemented by long existence, that the only hope of overt hrowing them exists… — Ellen Louise Demorest
If a person is to be unconventional, he must be amusing or he is intolerable: for, in the nature of the case, he guarantees yo… — Katharine Fullerton Gerould
No convention gets to be a convention at all except by grace of a lot of clever and powerful people first inventing it, and then… — Katharine Fullerton Gerould
As you become older in life...you will come to recognize that you are either just a convenience or a need in other people's lives. — Nishan Panwar

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