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Conventionality is not morality. -- Charlotte Bronte
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Conventionality is the tacit agreement to set appearances before reality, form before content ... -- Ellen Key
Conventionality is not morality. Self-righteousness is not religion. To attack the first is not to assail the last. -- Charlotte Bronte
The conventionality of the English is something I find unattractive - the whole lack of joy in the physical. -- Denholm Elliott
What worse illness can there be than acute conventionality. You should pray every night that you don't wake up with it. -- George Weinberg
The world is put back by the death of every one who has to sacrifice the development of his or her peculiar gifts to conventionality. -- Florence Nightingale
Here society is reduced to its original elements, the whole fabric of art and conventionality is struck rudely to pieces, and men find themselves suddenly brought back to the wants and resources of their original natures. -- Francis Parkman
USAGE, n. The First Person of the literary Trinity, the Second and Third being Custom and Conventionality. Imbued with a decent reverence for this Holy Triad an industrious writer may hope to produce books that will live as long as the fashion. -- Ambrose Bierce
All human rules are more or less idiotic. -- Mark Twain
Perhaps what you call conventionality, I call decency. -- Dodie Smith
I want to emphasize the idea of black as intellectuality and conventionality. -- Ad Reinhardt
Call on literary convention, and it will gladly tell your story for you. -- Mason Cooley
... 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. -- Katharine Fullerton Gerould
We are not supposed to all be the same, feel the same, think the same, and believe the same. The key to continued expansion of our Universe lies in diversity, not in conformity and coercion. Conventionality is the death of creation. -- Anthon St. Maarten
It is unquestionably true that the investment companies have their money more conventionally invested than we do. To many people conventionality is indistinguishable from conservatism. In my view, this represents erroneous thinking. Neither a conventional nor an unconventional approach, per se, is conservative. -- Warren Buffett
I am not talking to you now through the medium of custom, conventionalities, nor even of mortal flesh: it is my spirit that addresses your spirit; just as if both had passed through the grave, and we stood at God's feet, equal--as we are! -- Charlotte Bronte
England is so surrounded by the boredom of conventionalities, that it is all one to them whether music is good or bad, since they have to hear it from morning till night. For here they have flower-shows with music, dinners with music, sales with music... -- Frederic Chopin
This was life! Ah, how he loved it! Civilization held nothing like this in its narrow and circumscribed sphere, hemmed in by restrictions and conventionalities. Even clothes were a hindrance and a nuisance. At last he was free. He had not realized what a prisoner he had been. -- Edgar Rice Burroughs
Nobody can live in society without conventions. The reason why sensible people are as conventional as they can bear to be is that conventionality saves so much time and thought and trouble and social friction of one sort or another that it leaves them much more leisure time for freedom than unconventionality does. -- George Bernard Shaw
Every one knows about the young man who falls in love with the chorus-girl because she can kick his hat off, and his sister's friends can't or won't. But the youth who marries her, expecting that all her departures from convention will be as agile or as delightful to him as that, is still the classic example of folly. -- Katharine Fullerton Gerould
... if a person is to be unconventional, he must be amusing or he is intolerable: for, in the nature of the case, he guarantees you nothing but amusement. He does not guarantee you any of the little amenities by which society has assured itself that, if it must go to sleep, it will at least sleep in a comfortable chair. -- Katharine Fullerton Gerould
No convention gets to be a convention at all except by grace of a lot of clever and powerful people first inventing it, and then imposing it on others. You can be pretty sure, if you are strictly conventional, that you are following genius--a long way off. And unless you are a genius yourself, that is a good thing to do. -- Katharine Fullerton Gerould
Life, my dear Watson, is infinitely stranger than fiction; stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent. We could not conceive the things that are merely commonplace to existence. If we could hover over this great city, remove the roofs, and peep in at the things going on, it would make all fiction, with its conventionalities and foreseen conclusions flat, stale and unprofitable. -- Arthur Conan Doyle
There is a bond of fellowship in sorrow that knows no conventionality. -- Harold Bell Wright
â?¦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. -- Vladimir Nabokov

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