Conventions Quote by Florence King

Like life and people, it is full of paradoxes. Etiquette is based on tradition, and yet it can change. Its ramifications are trivialities, but…

— Millicent Fenwick

Etiquette enables you to resolve conflict without just trading insults. Without etiquette, the irritations in modern life are so abrasive that you see people…

— Judith Martin

Society cannot exist without etiquette ... It never has, and until our own century, everybody knew that.

— Judith Martin

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

— James Frey

Convention is another name for the habits of society.

— Rosamond Lehmann

To sacrifice the principles of manners, which require compassion and respect, and bat people over the head with their ignorance of etiquette rules they…

— Judith Martin

Conventions are often more cruel than the law.

— Honore de Balzac

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

Conventions, like clichés, have a way of surviving their own usefulness.

— Jane Rule

The conventions of society are all in the interests of morality. If you're conventional, you'll be good, in a negative sense, of course.

— Myrtle Reed

I think the problem today is that there is no social etiquette.

— Phoebe Dynevor

“Why is etiquette important?” “Because it maintains civility, making it possible for people from different worlds to interact with a minimum of unnecessary conflict.”

— Scott Meyer