Conventionality Quotes

Conventionality Quote of the day

What worse illness can there be than acute conventionality. You should pray every night that you don't wake up with it.

Conventionality is the tacit agreement to set appearances before reality, form before content.

All human rules are more or less idiotic.

Historically, Alaska is a place that has attracted those fed up with conventionality.

I want to emphasize the idea of black as intellectuality and conventionality.

Call on literary convention, and it will gladly tell your story for you.

The conventionality of the English is something I find unattractive - the whole lack of joy in the physical.

Perhaps what you call conventionality, I call decency.

... it is a great mistake to confuse conventionality with simplicity ... it takes a good deal of intelligence and a great many inhibitions to follow a social code.

…She was, obviously, one of those women whose polished words may reflect a book club or bridge club, or any other deadly conventionality, but never her soul.

When someone between twenty and forty says, apropos of a work of art, 'I know what I like, ' he is really saying 'I have no taste of my own but accept the taste of my cultural milieu.