Beginning Quote by Elvis Mitchell

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

— Quentin Crisp

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

A political convention is just not a place where you come away with any trace of faith in human nature.

— Murray Kempton

You don't have to follow anybody's conventions.

— James Frey

A political convention is not a place where you can come away with any trace of faith in human nature.

— Murray Kempton

I've been doing these conventions for 20 years, and we used to at least have debates about issues. Nothing is happening basically at this…

— Susan Estrich

I thought this convention phenomenon was very flattering, but that's about the extent of it.

— George Takei

I'm a sworn enemy of convention. I despise the conventional in anything, even the arts.

— Hedy Lamarr

One does not succeed by sticking to convention.

— Garry Kasparov

Convention is another name for the habits of society.

— Rosamond Lehmann

Society's the mother of convention.

— Carolyn Wells

Conventions are, by nature, a party. I mean, that's why people become delegates. They come from all over the world to exercise their democratic…

— Rob Lowe