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Custom Quotes by William Shakespeare
- I have very poor and unhappy brains for drinking: I could well wish courtesy would invent some other custom of entertainment.
- But to my mind, though I am native here, And to the manner born, it is a custom, More honored in the breach than the…
- Assume a virtue, if you have it not. That monster, custom, who all sense doth eat; Of habits devil, is angel yet in this.
- Nature her custom holds, Let shame say what it will.
- We must not make a scarecrow of the law, Setting it up to fear the birds of prey, And let it keep one shape till…
- The heavens themselves, the planets, and this centre Observe degree, priority, and place, Insisture, course, proportion, season, form, Office, and custom, in all line of…
- 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…
- Never; he will not: Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale Her infinite variety: other women cloy The appetites they feed: but she makes hungry…
- Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale her infinite variety. Other women cloy the appetites they feed, but she makes hungry where most she satisfies.
- Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale Her infinite variety, other women cloy.
- Now, my co-mates and brothers in exile, Hath not old custom made this life more sweet Than that of painted pomp?
More Custom Quotes
- Ignorance and a narrow education lay the foundation of vice, and imitation and custom rear it up. — Mary Astell
- Custom is second nature. — Saint Augustine
- Let it be your constant method to look into the design of people's actions, and see what they would be at, as… — Marcus Aurelius
- The custom of speaking to God Almighty as freely as with a slave - caring nothing whether the words are suitable or… — Teresa of Avila
- People usually think according to their inclinations, speak according to their learning and ingrained opinions, but generally act according to custom. — Francis Bacon
- No man ever looks at the world with pristine eyes. He sees it edited by a definite set of customs and institutions… — Ruth Benedict
- Custom reconciles us to everything. — Edmund Burke
- Morality is the custom of one's country and the current feeling of one's peers. — Samuel Butler
- It is an old custom amongst Jewish children, to become war-like on the 'L'ag Beomer.' They arm themselves from head to foot… — Sholom Aleichem
- The customs and fashions of men change like leaves on the bough, some of which go and others come. — Dante Alighieri
- Custom has made dancing sometimes necessary for a young man; therefore mind it while you learn it, that you may learn to… — Lord Chesterfield
- The best interpreter of the law is custom. — Marcus Tullius Cicero