Capable Quote by George Santayana

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

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

“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

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

— Murray Kempton

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

— Hedy Lamarr

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

— Murray Kempton

Convention serves a purpose: It gives life meaning, and without it, one is in a constant existential crisis. If you don't have the imposition…

— Elizabeth Wurtzel

Convention is the ruler of all.

— Pindar

No convention gets to be a convention at all except by grace of a lot of clever and powerful people first inventing it, and…

— Katharine Fullerton Gerould

I think there are some people who have this thing where, from the very beginning, some part of them rejects convention.

— Elvis Mitchell