(182 quotes found)
“The vow that binds too strictly snaps, itself”
Alfred Lord Tennyson
“I think she must have been very strictly brought up, she's so desperately anxious to do the wrong thing correctly”
H. H. Munro
“Be tender towards the fault of others, be strict towards your own.”
H. H. Swami Tejomayananda
“A strict observance of the written laws is doubtless one of the high virtues of a good citizen, but it is not the highest. The laws of necessity, of self-preservation, of saving our country when in danger, are of higher obligation.”
Thomas Jefferson
“Only by strict specialization can the scientific worker become fully conscious, for once and perhaps never again in his lifetime, that he has achieved something that will endure. A really definitive and good accomplishment is today always a specialized act.”
Max Weber
“To seduce a woman famous for strict morals, religious fervor and the happiness of her marriage: what could possibly be more prestigious?”
Christopher Hampton
“This fell sergeant, death, is strict in his arrest”
William Shakespeare
“Invention, strictly speaking, is little more than a new combination of those images which have been previously gathered and deposited in the memory; nothing can come of nothing”
Joshua Reynolds
“I have a very strict gun control policy: if there's a gun around, I want to be in control of it.”
Clint Eastwood
“Languages are jealous sovereigns, and passports are rarely allowed for travelers to cross their strictly guarded borders”
Rabindranath Tagore
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