Top 24 Rigueur Quotes
#1. Actual Victorian mores and politics were a reaction to a specific series of historical events, technological and scientific developments, and ethical trends in which the commodification of people was de rigueur.
N.K. Jemisin
#2. Literary dementia seems dated now, but there was a time when a month in the funny farm was as de rigueur for budding writers as an M.F.A. is now. To be sent away was a badge of honor; to undergo electroshock, a glorious martyrdom.
Walter Kirn
#3. The most serious Christians have always been well disposed towards me. I myself, an opponent of Christianity - de rigueur, am far from bearing a grudge against the individual for what is the fatality of millennia.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#4. I don't watch reality TV much, but sometimes I'll be on the E! channel and see that show "Total Divas", about female wrestlers. It's like, fake tits are de rigueur. Nose jobs are de rigueur. Exaggerated asses are de rigueur. Twerking is de rigueur.
Courtney Love
#5. Quelque rigueur qui loge en votre coeur, Amour s'en peut un jour rendre vainqueur. That little harshness which resides in your heart, Love will vanquish someday.
Louise Labe
#6. I was suicidal for two solid centuries once. That was during the early part of what they now call the Dark Ages, in medieval Europe. Suicidal tendencies were de rigueur at the time, and I'm nothing if not trendy.
Gene Doucette
#7. For a young man to start his career with a love affair with an older woman was quite de rigueur ... Of course, it must not go on for too long. An apprenticeship was a very different thing from a career.
Vita Sackville-West
#8. Ever since the Tim Burton Batman of 1989, it has been de rigueur in movies to focus on the freaky alienation aspect of the superhero's life: This is how talented people make movies for 14-year-olds while retaining their self-respect.
David Edelstein
#9. What to wear? I could think of no guidelines on what we were wearing this season to a party forced on you to celebrate an unwanted engagement that might turn into a violent confrontation with a vengeful maniac. Clearly brown shoes were out, but beyond that nothing really seemed de rigueur.
Jeff Lindsay
#10. And squabbling was de rigueur in Fairyland - not even cats were as bad.*
Terry Pratchett
#11. Why don't we break up? I guess I stay with her because she stays with me. And that's not an easy thing to do.
John Green
#12. Of all duties, prayer certainly is the sweetest and most easy.
Laurence Sterne
#13. There is a price for popularity. Critics look for your weaknesses, your flaws, anything that makes the work seem like a fluke and not seem worthy of all the attention it's getting.
Terry McMillan
#14. Let ancient times delight other folk, I rejoice that I was not born till now.
Ovid
#17. There's always a certain pride in getting the job done properly.
Tom Hardy
#19. Write what you feel like writing at first without worrying about how it sounds. That's what second drafts are for. Enjoy the first one!
B.A. Gabrielle
#20. Late
for the present, I suppose
accentuated each time
you see, quick enough
this fraction of earth
underfoot
that upright speech
imprints,
like the whole of being
resumes
We've hit on something like lightning strikes
Deborah Heissler
#21. To what lengths would so precocious an ambition not go?
Seneca.
#22. Assessing the mind of a creature this alien demands that we be extraordinary flexible in our own thinking. Marine biologist James Wood suggests our hubris gets in our way.
Sy Montgomery
#23. Each year, every city in the world that can should have a multiday festival. More people meeting each other, digging new types of music, new foods, new ideas. You want to stop having so many wars? This could be a step in the right direction.
Henry Rollins
#24. it took
losing him
to finally
find
myself.
It took
losing him
a second time
to be sure
of myself.
that
was my
first act
of
self-love.
Amanda Lovelace
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