Famous quotes containing the words mock and/or convention:
“Mock on, mock on, Voltaire, Rousseau!
Mock on, mock on—’Tis all in vain!”
—William Blake (1757–1827)
“The metaphor of the king as the shepherd of his people goes back to ancient Egypt. Perhaps the use of this particular convention is due to the fact that, being stupid, affectionate, gregarious, and easily stampeded, the societies formed by sheep are most like human ones.”
—Northrop Frye (b. 1912)