Conventionality Quotes - Page 2

• …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

  Book, Bridges, Soul

  Vladimir Nabokov (2016). “Lolita”, p.19, Hamilton Books

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• 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

  Civilization, Clothes, Nuisance

  Edgar Rice Burroughs (2013). “Tarzan Books 1 through 5”, eStar Books

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• 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

  Thinking, Views, People

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• ... 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

  Sleep, Littles, Doe

  Katharine Fullerton Gerould (1920). “Modes and Morals”

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• 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

  Marriage, Girl, Falling In Love

  Katharine Fullerton Gerould (1920). “Modes and Morals”

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• 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

  Powerful, Clever, Long

  Katharine Fullerton Gerould (1920). “Modes and Morals”

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

  Denholm Elliott

  Joy, Unattractive, Whole

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• ... 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

  Mistake, Simplicity, Great Men

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