Rigour Quotes

Rigour Quote of the day

If Courtezans and Strumpets were to be prosecuted with as much Rigour as some silly People would have it, what Locks or Bars would be sufficient to preserve the Honour of our Wives and Daughters?

One of the effects of civilization is to diminish the rigour of the application of the law of natural selection. It preserves weakly lives that would have perished in barbarous lands.

As for methods I have sought to give them all the rigour that one requires in geometry, so as never to have recourse to the reasons drawn from the generality of algebra.

In football as in watchmaking, talent and elegance mean nothing without rigour and precision.

The cuisine, it is all about putting generosity before rigour and pleasure before lucidity.

How do we get a pantomime cow on set. Jeez, the rigours of satire.

I relieve myself from the rigours of directing by casting the movie correctly.

A clear fire, a clean hearth, and the rigour of the game.

Pop music is not just a clumsy mass fanaticism, connected to a deceitful enchantment totally lacking in moral rigour.

If one must choose between rigour and meaning, I shall unhesitatingly choose the latter.

It takes character to withstand the rigours of indolence.

I've grown so much, not just as an actor, but as a human being.

Whenever the offence inspires less horror than the punishment, the rigour of penal law is obliged to give way to the common feelings of mankind.

Literary criticism has about it neither rigour nor proof. Where it is honest, it is passionate, private experience seeking to persuade.

Rigour and purity in assembling words, however simple the result, create a vacuum.

I'm constantly intimidated by Shakespeare's work. Trying to decipher what he's saying and holding on to that thought - not just as an actor, but as a human being - is a rigour.