Severity Quotes

Truth from the mouth of an honest man and severity from a good-natured man have a double effect.

Many people think that virtue consists of severity towards others.

Ambiguity lurks in generality, and may thus become an instrument of severity.

A human being will accept the strictest disciplinary measures with a better grace if he knows that they will fall with equal severity on his neighbor.

Nothing comes of severity if there be no leanings towards a change of heart. And if there be natural leanings towards a change of heart, what need for severity?

Few men survey themselves with so much severity as not to admit prejudices in their own favor.

All severity that does not tend to increase good, or prevent evil, is idle.

This is the even-handed dealing of the world!" he said. "There is noth-ing on which it is so hard as poverty; and there is nothing it professes tocondemn with such severity as the pursuit of wealth!

There is a difference between admitting and confessing. Admitting involves softening, making excuses for things that cannot be excused; confessing just names the crimes at its full severity.

Every actual State is corrupt. Good men must not obey the laws too well. What satire on government can equal the severity of censure conveyed in the word politics ....?

If you take every challenge everyone has in their life and multiply it in severity you get what it's like in the life of an actor.

Is it possible that the environmental severity of the 1930s induced-particularly in the most aware, alert, and compassionate of [British] men-a morality which makes no sense today?

Compassionate doctors sometimes lie to patients about the severity of their condition, and it is not always wrong to do so.

Excessive severity misses its own aim.

Moral severity in women is only a dress or paint which they use to set off their beauty.

In compassionate men, severity is a virtue.

Jealousy seldom punishes with the severity it suffers.

A great reserve and severity of manners are necessary for the command of those who are older than ourselves.

A victorious general must know how to employ severity, justness, and mildness by turns, if he would allay sedition or prevent it.

No severity of punishment deters when detection is uncertain, as it always must be.

Ridicule often cuts the knot, where severity fails.

That kind of discipline whose pungent severity is in the manifestations of paternal love, compassion, and tenderness is the most sure of its object.

When death comes it is never our tenderness that we repent from, but our severity.

You decide. You be the judge. It says You are welcome regardless of severity. Severity is in the eye of the sufferer, it says. Pain is pain.