CUSTOM QUOTES V

quotations about custom


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Custom, madam, is the law of fools, but it shall never govern me.

JOHN VANBRUGH
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The Provoked Husband


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But to my mind, though I am native here,
And to the manner born, it is a custom
More honour'd in the breach than the observance.

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

Hamlet


Custom is the sovereign of mortals and of gods: with its powerful hand it regulates things the most violent.

PINDARUS

attributed, Day's Collacon


So many countries, so many customs.

JOHN RAY

English Proverbs


There is no greater tyranny than that of social custom.

ELIZABETH GOUGE

The Dean's Watch


Custom governs the world: it is the tyrant of our feelings and our manners, and rules with a hand of a despot.

J. BARTLETT

attributed, Day's Collacon


'Tis nothing when you are used to it.

JONATHAN SWIFT

Polite Conversation


Custom alone regulates morals.

ANATOLE FRANCE

The Revolt of the Angels


What humanity abhors, custome reconciles and recommends to us.

JOHN LOCKE

On Education


Times change: it was once the custom to take a bath weekly and religion daily.

EVAN ESAR

20,000 Quips & Quotes


Customs may not be as wise as laws, but they are always more popular.

BENJAMIN DISRAELI

speech in the House of Commons, March 11, 1870


Custom, though never so ancient, without truth, is but an old error.

CYPRIAN

attributed, Day's Collacon