Customs Quotes

Love is only surpassing sweet when it is directed toward a mortal object, and the secret of this ult...

[H]e is a barbarian, and thinks that the customs of his tribe and island are the laws of nature.

If anyone, no matter who, were given the opportunity of choosing from amongst all the nations in the...

But there are times," said Charlotte, "when it is necessary and an act of friendship to write nothin...

Customs do not concern themselves with right or wrong or reason. But they have to be obeyed; one rea...

The customs are as formalised as an eighteenth-century minuet, and a child at the race's knee learns...

All the joys—animal and human—of a free life are mine. I have escaped everything that is artificial,...

Customs tell a man who he is, where he belongs, what he must do. Better illogical customs than none;...

Customs, morals--is there a difference?

Very little of the great cruelty shown by men can really be attributed to cruel instinct. Most of it...

I just wish this social institution [religion] wasn't based on what appears to me to be a monumental...