Customs Quote by Philip Larkin Download Open image “Living in England has no such excuse: These are my customs and establishments.” — Philip Larkin ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.7 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Customs England Establishment Excuse Familiarity Home
England is very regimented. Go to work, come home from work, go to the pub. — Tricky Copy Share Image
England is obsessed with where you came from, and they are determined to keep you in that place, be it in a drawing room… — Daniel Day-Lewis Copy Share Image
There's a certain lack of gimmickry to what I do that makes people in England go: 'Where's the thing?' — John Mayer Copy Share Image
I've been in England for a while, but it's true that at times you miss home, your family, your friends. — Juan Mata Copy Share Image
We don't bother much about dress and manners in England, because as a nation we don't dress well and we've no manners. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
When I got there, all the pasta and science stuff hadn't quite caught on in England - things that were perfectly acceptable then wouldn't… — Robbie Fowler Copy Share Image
I look upon England today as an old gentleman who is travelling with a great deal of baggage, trumpery which has accumulated fromlong housekeeping,… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Only one ship is seeking us, a black-Sailed unfamiliar, towing at her backA huge and birdless silence. In her wakeNo waters breed or break. — Philip Larkin Copy Share
And immediately Rather than words comes the thought of high windows: The sun-comprehending glass, And beyond it, the deep blue air, that shows Nothing,… — Philip Larkin Copy Share Image
“Once I am sure there's nothing going on I step inside, letting the door thud shut. Another church: matting, seats, and stone, And little books; sprawlings of flowers, cut For Sunday, brownish now; some brass and stuff Up at the holy end; the small neat organ; And a tense, musty, unignorable silence, Brewed God knows how long. Hatless, I take… — Philip Larkin Copy Share
Life is first boredom, then fear. Whether or not we use it, it goes, And leaves what something hidden from us chose, age, and… — Philip Larkin Copy Share Image
“It never worked for me. Something to do with violence A long way back, and wrong rewards, And arrogant eternity.” — Philip Larkin Copy Share Image
Seriously, I think it is a grave fault in life that so much time is wasted in social matters, because it not only takes up time when you might be doing individual private things, but it prevents you storing up the psychic energy that can then be released to create art or whatever it is. It's terrible the way we… — Philip Larkin Copy Share
So many things I had thought forgotten Return to my mind with stranger pain: Like letters that arrive addressed to someone Who left the… — Philip Larkin Copy Share Image
“One of the quainter quirks of life is that we shall never know who dies on the same day as we do ourselves.” — Philip Larkin Copy Share Image
“I sit in my room like Miss Havisham, about whom I have been reading this week. Better the Dickens you know than the Dickens you don't know - on the whole I enjoyed it. But I should like to say something about this 'irrepressible vitality', this 'throwing a fresh handful of characters on the fire when it burns low', in… — Philip Larkin Copy Share
“When I throw back my head and howl People (women mostly) say But you've always done what you want, You always get your way - A perfectly vile and foul Inversion of all that's been. What the old ratbags mean Is I've never done what I don't. So the shit in the shuttered chateau Who does his five hundred words… — Philip Larkin Copy Share
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 peculiar in its manufactures, its works of genius, its medicines, its agriculture, its customs, and its policy. He only is a useful traveller, who brings home something by which his country might be benefitted; who procures… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share
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
