Conventionality Quotes

Conventionality is not morality. Self-righteousness is not religion. To attack the first is not to assail the last. (Charlotte Brontë)
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. View quote
Florence Nightingale
Historically, Alaska is a place that has attracted those fed up with conventionality. View quote
Bill O'Reilly
What worse illness can there be than acute conventionality. You should pray every night that you don't wake up with it. View quote
George Weinberg
Conventionality is not morality. View quote
Charlotte Brontë
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. View quote
Francis Parkman
There's nobody in the world I'd sooner oblige than you and this young gentleman here. But the whole thing's nonsense, and conventionality, and popular thick-headedness. There's absolutely nothing to fight about, from beginning to end. And anyhow I'm not going to, so that settles it! View quote
Kenneth Grahame
...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. View quote
Vladimir Nabokov
This conflict between the powers of love and chastity ... it ended apparently in the triumph of chastity. Love was suppressed, held in darkness and chains, by fear, conventionality, aversion, or a tremulous yearning to be pure.... But this triumph of chastity was only an apparent, a pyrrhic victory. It would break through the ban of chastity, it would emerge - if in a form so altered as to be unrecognizable. View quote
Thomas Mann
The conventionality of the English is something I find unattractive - the whole lack of joy in the physical. View quote
Denholm Elliott
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)
Conventionality is not morality. Self-righteousness is not religion. Espousing the former is not defending the latter. View quote
Emily Dickinson
In his heart every man knows quite well that, being unique, he will be in the world only once and that no imaginable chance will for a second time gather together into a unity so strangely variegated an assortment as he is: he knows it but he hides it like a bad conscience-why? From fear of his neighbor, who demands conventionality and cloaks himself with it. But what is it that constrains the individual to fear his neighbor, to think and act like a member of a herd, and to have no joy in himself? Modesty, perhaps, in a few rare cases. With the great majority it is indolence, inertia. ... Men are even lazier than they are timid, and fear most of all the inconveniences with which unconditional honesty and nakedness would burden them. Artists alone hate this sluggish promenading in borrowed fashions and appropriated opinions and they reveal everyone's secret bad conscience, the law that every man is a unique miracle. View quote
Friedrich Nietzsche
The time for thinkers has come. Truth, independent of doctrines and time-honored systems, knocks at the portal of humanity. Contentment with the past and the cold conventionality of materialism are crumbling away. Ignorance of God is no longer the stepping-stone to faith. The only guarantee of obedience is a right apprehension of Him whom to know aright is Life eternal. View quote
Mary Baker Eddy
...It's more that the conventionality of the model makes it a domesticized view of desire and also that really what we want is the same things as heterosexuals: the nuclear family, marriage; all of these components which from a feminist perspective we've already critiqued. Not every lesbian is a feminist, but if every lesbian were a feminist they shouldn't want this either, because it really contradicts a whole movement that critiqued the nuclear family and the hierarchy of the nuclear family... View quote
Cherríe Moraga