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The tyrant custom, most grave senators, Hath made the flinty and steel couch of war My thrice-driven bed of down. - William Shakespeare, Othello the Moor of Venice (Othello at I, iii) New customs, Though they be never so ridiculous (Nay, let 'em be unmanly), yet are followed. - William Shakespeare, The Life of King Henry the Eighth (Sandys at I, iii) O Kate, nice customs curtsy to great kings. - William Shakespeare, The Life of King Henry the Fifth (King Henry at V, ii) He is a barbarian, and thinks that the customs of his tribe and island are the laws of nature. - George Bernard Shaw 'Tis nothing when you are used to it. - Jonathan Swift, Polite Conversation (dialogue III) The old order changeth, yielding place to new; And God fulfils himself in many ways, Lest one good custom should corrupt the world. - Lord Alfred Tennyson, Passing of Arthur (l. 408) Custom, 'tis true, a venerable tyrant O'er servile man extends her blind dominion. - James Thomson (1) Custom is the law of fools. - Sir John Vanbrugh (Vanburgh) Custom does often reason overrule. - John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester Be not so bigoted to any custom as to worship at the expense of truth. - Johann Georg von Zimmermann Displaying page 3 of 3 for this topic: << Prev 1 2 [3]
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