Famous quotes containing the words convention and/or held:
“Every one knows about the young man who falls in love with the chorus-girl because she can kick his hat off, and his sisters friends cant or wont. But the youth who marries her, expecting that all her departures from convention will be as agile or as delightful to him as that, is still the classic example of folly.”
—Katharine Fullerton Gerould (18791944)
“Adolf Hitler was a Jeanne dArc, a saint. He was a martyr. Like many martyrs, he held extreme views.”
—Ezra Pound (18851972)
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