Convention Quote by Rosamond Lehmann Download Open image “Convention is another name for the habits of society.” — Rosamond Lehmann ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.0 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Convention Convention Habits Conventions Habit Habits Habits Society Names Society
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
There is nothing sacred about convention; there is nothing sacred about primitive passions or whims; but the fact that a convention exists indicates that… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
I don't believe in convention at all. I do what I have to do to stay alive. — Quentin Crisp Copy Share Image
Conventions are like coins, an easy way of dealing with the commerce of relations. — Freya Stark Copy Share Image
Society, by insisting on conventions, has merely insisted on certain convenient signs by which we may know that a man is considering, in daily… — Katharine Fullerton Gerould Copy Share Image
A political convention is after all not a meeting of a corporation's board of directors; it is a fiesta, a carnival, a pig-rooting, horse-snorting,… — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
Conventions, like clichés, have a way of surviving their own usefulness. — Jane Rule Copy Share Image
[On Ian Fleming:] The trouble with Ian is that he gets off with women because he can't get on with them. — Rosamond Lehmann Copy Share Image
“Yes, we are sure of it. These walls enclose a world. Here is continuity spinning a web from room to room, from year to… — Rosamond Lehmann Copy Share Image
Advice to Young Journal Keepers. Be lenient with yourself. Conceal your worst faults, leave out your most shameful thoughts, actions, and temptations. Give yourself… — Rosamond Lehmann Copy Share Image
People have been saying the novel is dead for as far back as I can remember. The novel will never die, but it will… — Rosamond Lehmann Copy Share Image
anything that becomes a cult, or a mass movement, loses its moral and spiritual value. The crusade has to be personal, individual. As soon… — Rosamond Lehmann Copy Share Image
Looking back into childhood is like looking into a semi-transparent globe within which people and places lie embedded. A shake - and they stir,… — Rosamond Lehmann Copy Share Image
“Still, now and then they seemed to be holding behind them the surprising, the magic vistas of childhood - the sudden snow at night,… — Rosamond Lehmann Copy Share Image
How long, I wonder, will ignorance spell purity and knowledge shame? — Rosamond Lehmann Copy Share Image
“I want to do something absolutely different, or perhaps nothing at all: just stay where I am, in my home, and absorb each hour,… — Rosamond Lehmann Copy Share Image
No one familiar with the common law of England can read the Constitution of the United States without observing the great desire of the… — Samuel Freeman Miller Copy Share Image
“He needed the people and the clamour around him. There was no questions and no doubts when he stood on a platform over a… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Only in Washington would the Republican operatives get the entire press corps ginned up over the notion that I'm going to be home campaigning… — Claire McCaskill Copy Share Image
“We'd been trying so hard to look like our heroes, we'd kinda forgotten what a hero really is. Capes, masks, powers — sure, that's… — Mikko Copy Share Image
The United States, a signatory to the Chemical Weapons Convention, destroyed the last of its stocks of VX and other chemical agents on the… — Barton Gellman Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
There's a War Crimes Act in the United States passed by a Republican Congress in 1996, which says that grave breaches of the Geneva… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
For many years I have advocated 'redesigning Parliament' in a variety of ways - elect the Senate, do away with the 'confidence convention,' permit… — Preston Manning Copy Share Image
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