Custom. Grocott's Familiar Quotations, 6th ed. 189-?

Grocott & Ward, comps. Grocott’s Familiar Quotations, 6th ed. 189-?.

Custom


The breach of custom Is breach of all. Shakespeare.—Cymbeline, Act IV. Scene 2. (Imogen to Guiderius.)	1
Custom calls me to ’t;— What custom wills, in all things should we do ’t? Shakespeare.—Coriolanus, Act II. Scene 3. (Solus.)	2
It is a custom, More honour’d in the breach than the observance. Shakespeare.—Hamlet, Act I. Scene 4. (Hamlet to Horatio.)	3
New customs, Though they be never so ridiculous, Nay, let them be unmanly, yet are follow’d. Shakespeare.—King Henry VIII., Act I. Scene 3. (Sands to the Chamberlain.)	4