“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. To attack the first is not to assail the last.”
Charlotte Bronte
“I feel that each case must be judged individually, on its own merits ... irrespective of stupid conventionalities... I mean, each woman's right to her liberty.”
Edith Wharton
“Conventionality is not morality.”
“The market creates conventionality and conformity, but that's not really what people want to see.”
Bennett Miller
“We had conventioneers in Los Angeles who said, 'Why would we want to go to Detroit?' ”
Henry Ford
“Reason, observation, and experience; the holy trinity of science.”
Robert Green Ingersoll
