Quotes about custom

People usually think according to their inclinations, speak according to their learning and ingrained opinions, but generally act according to custom.

— Francis Bacon

Custom reconciles us to everything.

— Edmund Burke

Custom, that unwritten law, By which the people keep even kings in awe.

— Charles Davenport

Of course poets have morals and manners of their own, and custom is no argument with them.

— Thomas Hardy

Without the aid of prejudice and custom, I should not be able to find my way across the room.

— William Hazlitt

Customs form us all, our thoughts, our morals, our most fixed beliefs; are consequences of our place of birth.

— Aaron Hill

Custom, then, is the great guide of human life.

— David Hume

The despotism of custom is everywhere the standing hindrance to human advancement.

— John Stuart Mill

Nature is seldom in the wrong, custom always.

— Lady Mary Wortley Montagu

The way of the world is to make laws, but follow custom.

— Michel Eyquem De Montaigne

Nothing is more powerful than custom or habit.

— Ovid

Laws are subordinate to custom.

— Titus Maccius Plautus

Custom is a tyrant.

— Proverb

The empire of custom is most mighty.

— Publilius Syrus

Often, the less there is to justify a traditional custom, the harder it is to get rid of it.

— Mark Twain

People do more from custom than from reason.

— Source Unknown

Customs and convictions change; respectable people are the last to know, or to admit, the change, and the ones most offended by fresh reflections of the facts in the mirror of art.

— John Updike