Customs Quote by Ngaio Marsh Download Open image “Custom makes monsters of us all.” — Ngaio Marsh ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.0 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Customs Monsters
“Custom is a shroud that conceals everything. Not without first encountering the uncustomary will we be able to recognize what is customary and, more… — Vilém Flusser Copy Share Image
We make our own monsters, then fear them for what they show us about ourselves. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Custom is, to think a handsome thing in private but tame it down in the utterance. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Custom, then, is the great guide of human life. It is that principle alone, which renders our experience useful to us, and makes us… — David Hume Copy Share Image
Anytime you make a person into something other than himself, you make a monster. — Roger Rosenblatt Copy Share Image
Custom is the law of one description of fools, and fashion of another; but the two parties often clash--for precedent is the legislator of… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
if you go through life looking for insults, you may be comfortably assured of finding them. — Ngaio Marsh Copy Share Image
Above all things-read. Read the great stylists who cannot be copied rather than the successful writers who must not be copied. — Ngaio Marsh Copy Share Image
Why do you want to become an author? I will accept only one answer. If it is because you feel you can write better… — Ngaio Marsh Copy Share Image
We do not wait for inspiration. We work because we've jolly well got to. But when all is said and done, we toil at… — Ngaio Marsh Copy Share Image
You may be able to write a novel, you may not. You will never know until you have worked very hard indeed and written… — Ngaio Marsh Copy Share Image
“There are people to whom one need not show off. It’s a great comfort sometimes.” — Ngaio Marsh Copy Share Image
“Please don't entertain for a moment the utterly mistaken idea that there is no drudgery in writing. There is a great deal of drudgery… — Ngaio Marsh Copy Share Image
“She's extremely common, but that doesn't matter. Lots of common people are charming. Like bounders. I believe no woman ever falls passionately in love… — Ngaio Marsh Copy Share Image
It is a curious thing that when one speaks from the heart it is invariably in the worst of taste. — Ngaio Marsh Copy Share Image
Be neither too early in the fashion, nor too long out of it, nor too precisely in it; what custom hath civilized is become… — Francis Quarles Copy Share Image
In reality no food is valued solely for its nutritive power and no garment or house solely for the protection it affords against cold… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
Often a quite assified remark becomes sanctified by use and petrified by custom; it is then a permanency, its term of activity a geologic… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Since custom is the principal magistrate of man's life, let men by all means endeavor to obtain good customs. — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
To me the female principle is, or at least historically has been, basically anarchic. It values order without constraint, rule by custom not by… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
There will be no lasting peace either in the heart of individuals or in social customs until death is outlawed. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
The strongest reason for giving woman all the opportunities of higher education, for the full development of her faculties, forces of mind and body;… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
Society everywhere is in conspiracy against the manhood of every one of its members. The virtue in most request is conformity. Self-reliance is its… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
He that would travel for the entertainment of others, should remember that the great object of remark is human life. Every nation has something… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
It is necessary to obey a Pope in all things as long as he does not go against the universal customs of the Church,… — Pope Innocent III Copy Share Image
One of the Canadian customs guards got suspicious and said 'Haven't you been coming and going across the border a lot lately?' I finally… — Hugh Jackman Copy Share Image
