Conventional Behavior Quotes

The more unpopular an opinion is, the more necessary is it that the holder should be somewhat punctilious in his observance of conventionalities generally.

People who are the most normal are probably the most crazy.

I'm unconventional and eccentric and talk things out, and it seemed that the person I married - maybe in reaction - got quieter and more conventional over time. It felt as if we were putting each other in a straitjacket.

Conventional people are roused to fury by departure from convention, largely because they regard such departure as a criticism of themselves.

One who aspires to greatness should read and study, pursuing the True Way with such a firm resolve that he is perfectly straightforward and open, rises above the superficialities of conventional behavior, and refuses to be satisfied with the petty or commonplace.

The typical socialist... a prim little man with a white-collar job, usually a secret teetotaler and often with vegetarian leanings.

I mean, I'm married to an academic oncologist, a cancer doctor, okay? He and his colleagues are some of the most conscientious, devoted, hard-working, conventional bourgeois people in the known universe. They are the people that keep this society going.

Tradition implies authority, conformity, imitation, following.

I am just the most boring person you will ever meet. I'm the good Southern daughter. I'm not outrageous.

I'm very conventional compared to my parents.

Anyone who was a rebel at one time in life cannot return to being conventional.

The conventions of society are all in the interests of morality. If you're conventional, you'll be good, in a negative sense, of course.

I think it's refreshing that someone on TV can admit they drink beer, eat meat, and wear fur.

To be moral, correct, and virtuous is to be obedient to an old established law and custom.

Success, recognition, and conformity are the bywords of the modern world where everyone seems to crave the anesthetizing security of being identified with the majority.

We pray to be conventional. But the wary Heaven takes care you shall not be, if there is anything good in you. Dante was very badcompany, and was never invited to dinner.

I decided to... just be normal.

Children of course are monstrously conventional, repelled at once by whatever is off-center, out of whack, unmanageable. And being an only child I had been coddled a good deal (also scolded). I was awkward, precocious, timid, full of my private rituals and aversions.

Conventions are unstated agreements within a community to abide by a single way of doing things - not because there is any inherent advantage to the choice, but because there is an advantage to everyone making the same choice.

It saves trouble to be conventional, for you're not always explaining things.

A sound banker, alas, is not one who foresees danger and avoids it, but one who, when he is ruined, is ruined in a conventional and orthodox way along with his fellows, so that no one can really blame him. It is necessarily part of the business of a banker to maintain appearances, and to confess a conventional respectability, which is more than human. Life-long practices of this kind make them the most romantic and the least realistic of men.

Throughout high school, I was fairly boring. I didn't do many rebellious things.

Most attractive males talk to most attractive women as if they were Rotarians comparing sales percentages in Des Moines.

People take conventional ways that other people have always decorated their cars, and use them as ways of giving other people permission to approach them.

nothing is more restful than conformity.