90 Quotations with Convention.
- 1. John Barrymore: Die? I should say not, dear fellow. No Barrymore would allow such a conventional ...

- 2. Charlotte Bronte: Conventionality is not morality. Self-righteousness is not religion. To attack t ...

- 3. John Kenneth Galbraith: The conventional view serves to protect us from the painful job of thinking.

- 4. Ambrose Bierce: SHERIFF, n. In America the chief executive office of a country, whose most chara ...

- 5. Ambrose Bierce: USAGE, n. The First Person of the literary Trinity, the Second and Third being C ...

- 6. Abraham Lincoln: The provision of the Constitution giving the war-making power to Congress was di ...

- 7. Willie Pastrano: I look at ordinary people in their suits, them with no scars, and I'm different. ...

- 8. Idi Amin: I propose getting rid of conventional armaments and replacing them with reasonab ...

- 9. Harold Laki: No important institution is ever merely what the law makes it. It accumulates ab ...

- 10. Gregory Macguire: As long as people are going to call you a lunatic anyway, why not get the benefi ...

- 11. Aleister Crowley: The essence of independence has been to think and act according to standards fro ...

- 12. Elwyn Brooks White: A candidate could easily commit political suicide if he were to come up with an ...

- 13. Aldous Huxley: A child-like man is not a man whose development has been arrested; on the contra ...

- 14. Malcolm Bradbury: A conventional good read is usually a bad read, a relaxing bath in what we know ...

- 15. Graham Greene: A murderer is regarded by the conventional world as something almost monstrous, ...

- 16. Murray Kempton: A political convention is not a place where you can come away with any trace of ...

- 17. Lucy Maud Montgomery: As a rule, I am very careful to be shallow and conventional where depth and orig ...

- 18. Author Unknown: Business conventions are important because they demonstrate how many people a co ...

- 19. Bertrand Russell: Conventional people are roused to fury by departures from convention, largely be ...

- 20. Archibald MacLeish: Conventional wisdom notwithstanding, there is no reason, either in football or i ...

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