- All's Well That Ends Well
- Antony and Cleopatra
- As You Like It
- The Comedy of Errors
- Coriolanus
- Cymbeline
- Hamlet
- Henry IV, Part 1
- Henry IV, Part 2
- Henry V
- Henry VI, Part 1
- Henry VI, Part 2
- Henry VI, Part 3
- Henry VIII
- Julius Caesar
- King John
- King Lear
- Love's Labor's Lost
- A Lover's Complaint
- Macbeth
- Measure for Measure
- The Merchant of Venice
- The Merry Wives of Windsor
- A Midsummer Night's Dream
- Much Ado About Nothing
- Othello
- Pericles
- The Rape of Lucrece
- Richard II
- Richard III
- Romeo and Juliet
- Shakespeare's Sonnets
- The Taming of the Shrew
- The Tempest
- Timon of Athens
- Titus Andronicus
- Troilus and Cressida
- Twelfth Night
- The Two Gentlemen of Verona
- Venus and Adonis
- The Winter's Tale
Winterbourne is speaking to Daisy at Mrs. Walker's party about her behavior at the park the other day, and is trying to explain to her how and why she should conform to what is expected of her. Daisy doesn't see why she should follow the rules of others such as Mrs. Walker. In response, Winterbourne does not exactly defend the social practices of this little group per se; instead, he falls back on what he calls "custom."
Custom seems to have little basis in morality for Winterbourne: he does not, for instance, claim that it is ethically better to…