• If is a custom, More honor'd in the breach than the observance.

    William Shakespeare: If is a custom,
More honor'd in the breach than the observance.
    William Shakespeare (1849). “The Shakspearian Reader: A Collection of the Most Approved Plays of Shakspeare : Carefully Revised, with Introductory and Explanatory Notes, and a Memoir of the Author : Prepared Expressly for the Use of Classes, and the Family Reading Circle”, p.12