Constant Quote by Elizabeth Wurtzel

A convention is a social pattern we have chosen to prefer over whatever the raw world simply proffers. It is a sign of the…

— A. Bartlett Giamatti

I don't believe in convention at all. I do what I have to do to stay alive.

— Quentin Crisp

Convention is another name for the habits of society.

— Rosamond Lehmann

“In actual fact, conventions are the death of real tradition as they are of all real life. They are parasites which attach themselves to…

— Thomas Merton

Conventions are unstated agreements within a community to abide by a single way of doing things - not because there is any inherent advantage…

— Steven Pinker

There is nothing sacred about convention; there is nothing sacred about primitive passions or whims; but the fact that a convention exists indicates that…

— George Santayana

Family traditions counter alienation and confusion. They help us define who we are; they provide something steady, reliable and safe in a confusing world.

— Susan Lieberman

Convention is the ruler of all.

— Pindar

Society's the mother of convention.

— Carolyn Wells

Family traditions are more than arguments with the dead, more than collections of family letters you try to decipher. A tradition is also a…

— Michael Ignatieff

People see 'tradition' as something stultifying, old, and rigid, nothing that has meaning or application for us today. But families shouldn't have to follow…

— Elizabeth Berg

Conventions are like coins, an easy way of dealing with the commerce of relations.

— Freya Stark