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Customs Quotes - Page 2

The adulterer dies. An old custom, justice.

Aeschylus (1984). “The Oresteia: Agamemnon; The Libation Bearers; The Eumenides”, p.189, Penguin

Nature is seldom in the wrong, custom always.

Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, James Archibald Stuart-Wortley-Mackenzie Wharncliffe (1837). “The Letters and Works of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu”, p.142

Bad laws make bad customs.

Jane Aiken Hodge (2014). “Watch the Wall, My Darling”, p.16, A&C Black

Elaborate burial customs are a sure sign of decadence.

J. G. Ballard (2001). “The complete short stories”, Fourth Estate

Customs represent the experience of mankind.

Henry Ward Beecher, William Drysdale (1887). “Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit”

A deep meaning often lies in old customs.

"Maria Stuart". Play by Friedrich Schiller (Act I, Scene 7, line 131), June 14, 1800.

Nice customs curtsy to great kings.

William Shakespeare, Andrew Gurr (2005). “King Henry V”, p.214, Cambridge University Press

The breach of custom Is breach of all.

William Shakespeare, George Somers Bellamy (1875). “The New Shaksperian Dictionary of Quotations: (With Marginal Classification and Reference.)”, p.28

Custom doth make dotards of us all.

Thomas Carlyle (1869). “Sartor Resartus: The Life and Opinions of Herr Teufelsdröckh : in Three Books”, p.250

Custom is second nature.

"Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations", pp. 154-155, 1922.

Custom is a second nature, and no less powerful.

Michel de Montaigne (2015). “Montaigne's Essays: Top Essays”, p.1033, 谷月社

The customs and practices of life in society sweep us along.

Michel de Montaigne (1991). “The essays of Michel de Montaigne”, Lane, Allen

Custom has furnished the only basis which ethics have ever had.

Joseph Wood Krutch (1970). “A Krutch Omnibus: Forty Years of Social and Literary Criticism”

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

John Bell, Joseph Addison, Michael Arne, John Banks, Susanna Centlivre (1791). “British Theatre: Bold stroke for a wife”