Custom Quotes

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Assume a virtue, if you have it not. That monster, custom, who all sense doth eat, Of habits devil, is angel yet in this, That… — William Shakespeare
It is science alone that can solve the problems of hunger and poverty, of insanitation and illiteracy, of superstition and deadening custom and tradition, of… — Jawaharlal Nehru
Loafe with me on the grassâ€”loose the stop from your throat; Not words, not music or rhyme I wantâ€”not custom or lecture, not even the… — Walt Whitman
There is not much talking now. A silence falls upon them all. This is no time to talk of hedges and fields, or the beauties… — Alan Paton
As was the custom in such cases, the pear tree was charged with murder and sentenced to be uprooted and burned. — Robert Graves
The world is his who can see through its pretension. What deafness, what stone-blind custom, what overgrown error you behold, is there only by sufferance,--by… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
I can't help but think that it's an unfortunate custom to name children after people who come to sticky ends. Even if they are fictional… — Kate Atkinson
The door could not be heard slamming; they had probably left it open, as is the custom in homes where a great misfortune has occurred. — Franz Kafka
How but in custom and in ceremony are innocence and beauty born? — William Butler Yeats
She dealt her pretty words like Blades -- How glittering they shone -- And every One unbared a Nerve Or wantoned with a Bone --… — Emily Dickinson
Ogbuef Ezedudu,who was the oldest man in the village, was telling two other men when they came to visit him that the punishment for breaking… — Chinua Achebe
Philosophy, though unable to tell us with certainty what is the true answer to the doubts which it raises, is able to suggest many possiblities… — Bertrand Russell
The doctor seemed especially troubled by the fact of the robbery having been unexpected, and attempted in the night-time; as if it were the established… — Charles Dickens
Kindness and a caring mind are two separate qualities. Kindness is manners. It is superficial custom, an acquired practice. Not so the mind. The mind… — Haruki Murakami
The steward, according to custom, had stopped all the clocks. This, in the language of Narouz, said, "Your stay with us is so brief, let… — Lawrence Durrell
.., by universal custom, your enemy is never more polite than when he is planning or has planned your destruction. — James Clavell
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
My dear boy, the people who love only once in their lives are really the shallow people. What they call their loyalty, and their fidelity,… — Oscar Wilde
The less there is to justify a traditional custom, the harder it is to get rid of it — Mark Twain
There is very little real liberty in the world; even those who seem freest are often the most tightly bound. Law, custom, public opinion, fear… — Louisa May Alcott

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