Myrtle Reed Quotes

Controversial proposals, once accepted, soon become hallowed.

Conventionality is not morality.

I do believe that it's something that we don't talk about, but when there are clearly defined gender roles, it is much simpler. Because you don't have to think, which people apparently don't like to do.

We have no precedents to guide us, and that is a glorious thing, for precedents, like other guides are disposed to grow tyrannical and refuse to let us do anything on our own initiative. Life grows wearisome in the countries where precedents and conventionality is rule and nothing can happen unless it has happen before.

I go not back of the convention, to make distinctions among its’ members.

Customs do not concern themselves with right or wrong or reason. But they have to be obeyed; one reasons all around them until he is tired, but he must not transgress them, it is sternly forbidden.

Your home should make your life easier.

An ounce of convention is worth a pound of explanation.

Society will pardon much to genius and special gifts; but, being in its nature conventional, it loves what is conventional, or what belongs to coming together.

Tradition implies authority, conformity, imitation, following.

The Bagginses had lived in the neighbourhood of The Hill for time out of mind, and people considered them very respectable, not only because most of them were rich, but also because they never had any adventures or did anything unexpected: you could tell what a Baggins would say on any question without the bother of asking him.

Convention was our safeguard: could one have stronger?

Custom creates the whole of equity, for the simple reason that it is accepted.

People and their rituals. They cling to things so hard sometimes.

Each human being is unique, each with their own qualities, instincts, forms of pleasure, and desire for adventure. However, society always imposes on us a collective ways of behaving, and people never stop to wonder why they should behave like that. They just accept it, the way typists accepted the fact that the QWERTY keyboard was the best possible one. Have you ever met anyone is your entire life who asked why the hands of a clock should go in one particular direction and not the other?

Good manners consist of doing precisely what everyone thinks should be done, especially when no one knows quite what that is.

All human rules are more or less idiotic.

Custom determines what is agreeable.

The urge to break with a tradition is only appropriate when you're dealing with an outdated, troublesome tradition: I never really thought about that because I take the old-fashioned approach of equating tradition with value (which may be a failing). But whatever the case, positive tradition can also provoke opposition if it's too powerful, too overwhelming, too demanding. That would basically be about the human side of wanting to hold your own.

He who does anything because it is the custom, makes no choice.

Custom meets us at the cradle and leaves us only at the tomb.

Charm was the luxury of those who still believed in the essential rightness of things. In purity and picket fences.

Men walk almost always in the paths trodden by others, proceeding in their actions by imitation.

Cookbooks bear the same relation to real books that microwave food bears to your grandmother?s.

Some rules are nothing but old habits that people are afraid to change.