Famous quotes containing the words world and/or conventions:
“There’s nothing in the world like the devotion of a married woman. It’s a thing no married man knows anything about.”
—Oscar Wilde (1854–1900)
“I find nothing healthful or exalting in the smooth conventions of society. I do not like the close air of saloons. I begin to suspect myself to be a prisoner, though treated with all this courtesy and luxury. I pay a destructive tax in my conformity.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)