Boast Quote by Fanny Burney

Custom, madam, is the law of fools, but it shall never govern me.

— John Vanbrugh

Custom governs the world; it is the tyrant of our feelings and our manners and rules the world with the hand of a despot.

— Bill Vaughan

The way of the world is to make laws, but follow custom.

— Michel de Montaigne

Custom, that is before all law; Nature, that is above all art.

— Samuel Daniel

How many things both just and unjust are sanctioned by custom?

— Terence

It takes far more courage to violate a custom than a law.

— Evan Esar

Before passing different laws for different people, I'd relinquish myself unto you as your slave.

— Franz Grillparzer

Custom is the principle magistrate of man's life

— Anonymous

In America, law substitutes for custom.

— Paula Gunn Allen

“necessity had no respect for law. Even custom must bow to it at times.”

— S. M. Stirling

“Whoever visits some estates there, and witnesses the good-humored indulgence of some masters and mistresses, and the affectionate loyalty of some slaves, might be…

— Solomon Northup

The despotism of custom is on the wane. We are not content to know that things are; we ask whether they ought to be.

— John Stuart Mill