Conventionality Quote by Dodie Smith Download Open image “Perhaps what you call conventionality, I call decency.” — Dodie Smith ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.0 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Conventionality Decency
Conventionality is the tacit agreement to set appearances before reality, form before content. — Ellen Key Copy Share Image
“Decency" is a very old-fashioned word that conjures up a standard of behavior that has largely disappeared from the world.” — Inc Amazon Digital Services Copy Share Image
In some ways, 'decency' is a hazy concept; we know it when we see it. — Raja Krishnamoorthi Copy Share Image
“Conventional, for example, simply means that something follows a set of rules or customs, not unlike traditional but in a weaker sense. But when… — Xavier Lastra Copy Share Image
Conventional wisdom tells us to avoid taking unalterable action while at a low point in life. I have never been conventional. — Therese Fowler Copy Share Image
To some folk, if not to most folk, decency means pretending that the nastier things in life do not really exist. Decent people hide… — Amado Crowley Copy Share Image
“Classical conventionalism shows us everywhere, behind passive society, a hidden power, under the names of Law, or Legislator (or, by a mode of expression… — Frédéric Bastiat Copy Share Image
“I glanced through another page in case I had missed something, and came to the description of Simon's face as he lay on the… — Dodie Smith Copy Share Image
They call them the haunted shores, these stretches of Devonshire and Cornwall and Ireland which rear up against the westward ocean. Mists gather here,… — Dodie Smith Copy Share Image
“Now, paper and pencils," said Miss Marcy, clapping her hands. Writing paper is scarce in this house, and I had no intention of tearing… — Dodie Smith Copy Share Image
It's odd how different a house feels when one is alone in it. It makes it easier to think rather private thoughts... — Dodie Smith Copy Share Image
Like many other much-loved humans, they believed that they owned their dogs, instead of realizing that their dogs owned them. — Dodie Smith Copy Share Image
“And I suspect that, to the eyes of love, love shows. I knew about you as well as about myself, almost from the beginning.” — Dodie Smith Copy Share Image
“What I'd really hate would be the settled feeling, with nothing but happiness to look forward to. Of course no life is perfectly happy-… — Dodie Smith Copy Share Image
Am I really admitting that my sister is determined to marry a man she has only seen once and doesn't much like the look… — Dodie Smith Copy Share Image
“There are some people who always find beauty makes them feel sadder, which is a very mysterious thing.” — Dodie Smith Copy Share Image
Nobody can live in society without conventions. The reason why sensible people are as conventional as they can bear to be is that conventionality… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
This was life! Ah, how he loved it! Civilization held nothing like this in its narrow and circumscribed sphere, hemmed in by restrictions and… — Edgar Rice Burroughs Copy Share Image
England is so surrounded by the boredom of conventionalities, that it is all one to them whether music is good or bad, since they… — Frederic Chopin Copy Share Image
If you are not gonna tell the truth,at least tell me a convincing lie. — Abhishek Tiwari Copy Share Image
... if a person is to be unconventional, he must be amusing or he is intolerable: for, in the nature of the case, he… — Katharine Fullerton Gerould Copy Share Image
…She was, obviously, one of those women whose polished words may reflect a book club or bridge club, or any other deadly conventionality, but… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
The need of an insecure psychiatrist to draw security from a virtuous adjustment to the conventionalities of his time and from a quest for… — Frieda Fromm-Reichmann Copy Share Image
Conventionality is the tacit agreement to set appearances before reality, form before content. — Ellen Key Copy Share Image
“When people say they do not care what others think of them, for the most part they deceive themselves. Generally they mean only that… — W Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
The barriers of conventionality have been raised so high, and so strangely cemented by long existence, that the only hope of overt hrowing them… — Ellen Louise Demorest Copy Share Image
I want to emphasize the idea of black as intellectuality and conventionality. — Ad Reinhardt Copy Share Image
