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Traditions Quotes

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— You've always run away from a fight.
— Have not.
— You have so.
— Have not.
— You have so, and you know it.
— Have not. Slander and calumny. I have only ever embraced that oldest and noblest of pirate traditions. I submit that here now that is what we all must do. We must fight to run away.

Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End

Captain Jack Sparrow

Hector Barbossa

Sarcastic Quotes

Our traditions define us.

Women are supposed to be very calm generally: but women feel just as men feel; they need exercise for their faculties, and a field for their efforts, as much as their brothers do;nd it is narrow-minded in their more privileged fellow-creatures to say that they ought to confine themselves to making puddings and knitting stockings, to playing on the piano and embroidering bags.

Charlotte Brontë

— If we don't respect the past, we'll find it harder to build our future.
— Where did you read that?
— I made it up. I thought it was rather good.
— It's too good. One thing we don't want is a poet in the family.
— Would it be so bad?
— The only poet peer I am familiar with is Lord Byron. And I presume you all know how that ended.

Dowager Countess of Grantham

— My cage seems bigger than yours, but it's still a cage. If you want sympathy, you won't get it. I don't want your sympathy.
— Do you know what my daughter's nurse told her this morning? That in a girl's voice lies temptation. A known fact. Eloquence in a woman means promiscuity. Promiscuity of the mind leads to promiscuity of the body. She doesn't believe her yet, but she will. She'll grow up just like her mother. She'll marry, bear children and honor her family... spend her youth in needlepoint and rue the day she was born a girl. And when she dies... she'll wonder why she obeyed all the rules of God and country... because no biblical hell could ever be worse... than this state of perpetual inconsequence.

Dangerous Beauty

Veronica Franco

Beatrice Venier

— When you have a new baby, one of the other children has to die.
— Really?
— It's a tradition.

Addams Family Values

Wednesday Addams

Amazing tradition. They throw a great party for you on the one day they know you can't come.

There are always going to be counterrevolutionaries threatened by any change in the status quo.

But this is how I know who I am. And here it is too easy to forget.

Learning to Drive

Darwan Singh Tur

Over dinner there would be no shop talk.

— People like us should lead the fight to keep tradition going.
— If you mean we can never change, I can't agree to that.

You are my guest. That is not how we are. We do everything for our guests before we think of ourselves. That is the Sikh way.

Learning to Drive

Darwan Singh Tur

— Yes, I'd forgotten you're moonlighting as a criminal mastermind now. Got your next heist planned?
— No. But I'm thinking about growing a big, black moustache. I'm a traditionalist.

shepherd Derrial Book

doctor Simon Tam

Criminality, Criminals

You follow in the tradition that you're handed.

Let us change our traditional attitude to the construction of programs: Instead of imagining that our main task is to instruct a computer what to do, let us concentrate rather on explaining to human beings what we want a computer to do.

Programming And Programmers

Meaningful Quotes

Do not believe the clear sky, the grin of a dog and the smile of an Englishman.

Irish proverbs and sayings