Conventionalities Quotes

#1. 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

#2. Jo carried her love of liberty and hate of conventionalities to such and unlimited extent that she naturally found herself worsted in an argument.

Louisa May Alcott

#3. 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

#4. My father's mood surrounded him like a field and affected any room he occupied, like an odor or a certain cast to the light.

David Foster Wallace

#5. The sad ending is only because the author stops telling the story. But it still goes on. It's just untold.

Mark Polish

#6. We forget that what matters begins with the imagination.

Terry Brooks

#7. In the morning, I practice 15 minutes of yoga.

Vivienne Westwood

#8. I think too often we forget that girls can like sport; we are not biologically programmed to detest it, we are - in the main - conditioned against it. But shouldn't we try to change that?

Anna Kessel

#9. Madness is always a wonderful excuse, don't you think? For doing terrible things to other people.

Jennifer McMahon

#10. The people who lived here hated it so much that they had burned down a lot of it a month before. It was all they had, and they'd wrecked it.

Kurt Vonnegut

#11. Faith goes out through the window when beauty comes in at the door.

George Edward Moore

#12. Here lies Matthew Mudd,
Death did him no hurt;
When alive he was only Mudd,
But now he's only dirt.

Mel Blanc

#13. I was in a coma for five days - I was dead longer than Jesus before he was raised from the dead.

Rik Mayall