3.
Harsh necessity, and the newness of my kingdom, force me to do such things and to guard my frontiers everywhere.
Virgil
 
5.
Don't be too harsh to these poems until they're typed. I always think typescript lends some sort of certainty: at least, if the things are bad then, they appear to be bad with conviction.
Dylan Thomas
 
6.
Work is born in us. We take to it kindly or unkindly. The terms may be easy or harsh, but the contract is binding.
Studs Terkel
 
7.
He is indeed the 'Lamb.' There is nothing harsh or haughty or retaliative about Him.
J. Sidlow Baxter
 
8.
Whoever is new to power is always harsh.
Aeschylus
 
9.
Life is not easy. Life is very harsh. We have to be strong. Otherwise, life will destroy us.
Osama Alomar
 
10.
Have you not noticed in your past experience that your kind interpretations were almost always truer than your harsh ones?
Lawrence G. Lovasik
 
11.
For those who practise tyranny and deprive others of their rights, I will be harsh and stern, but for those who follow the law, I will be most soft and tender.
Umar
 
12.
If content with himself and mankind, a man is never harsh or curt.
Giacomo Leopardi
 
13.
You are very harsh.' 'I have seen the world.
Voltaire
 
14.
Dear me. Such harsh truths so early in the morning cannot be good for the digestion.
Cassandra Clare
 
15.
Injustice wears ever the same harsh face wherever it shows itself.
Ralph Ellison
 
16.
Like all harsh, cold men, he was easily tipped over into sentiment.
Ian Fleming
 
19.
Do not say anything harsh: what you have said will be said back to you.
Gautama Buddha
 
20.
Necessity is harsh. Fate has no reprieve.
Euripides
 
21.
Living in Brooklyn it's a very fend-for-yourself place. Maybe it's made me a little bit harsh but I don't consider that to be pejorative.
Fernando Torres
 
22.
I am quite content to go down to posterity as a scissors and paste man for that seems to me a harsh but not unjust description
James Joyce
 
23.
Despite very harsh living conditions and the trauma of what they went through, they [Sudanese refugees] had a lot of dignity
Julien Clerc
 
24.
I checked out all types of tobacco trying to find one that would be easiest to live with, I ended up using pipe tobacco. It burned slower, and it wasn't as harsh on my throat... It also smelled better.
David Strathairn
 
25.
Seek to mingle gentleness in all your rebukes; bear with the infirmities of others; make allowance for constitutional frailties; never say harsh things, if kind things will do as well.
John Ross Macduff
 
26.
Any one who is much talked of be much maligned. This seems to be a harsh conclusion; but when you consider how much more given men are to depreciate than to appreciate, you will acknowledge that there is some truth in the saying.
Arthur Helps
 
29.
My parents are going to kill me!" "That seems rather harsh.
Garth Nix
 
30.
I love Trinidad and I love living there, but it's quite harsh.
Peter Doig
 
31.
No cause has he to say his doom is harsh, who's made the master of his destiny.
Friedrich Schiller
 
32.
Nietzsche ... combines, in effect, Christ's harsh sayings: 'let the dead bury their dead' and 'narrow is the way which leadeth unto life'.
John Carroll
 
33.
And woven into the fabric of this harsh existence was music.
Lesley Garrett
 
34.
The act of self-denial seems to confer on us the right to be harsh and merciless toward others.
Eric Hoffer
 
38.
I am not being overly harsh. Overtly hostile, yes, but exactly the right amount of harsh.
Jennifer Harrison
 
40.
Free curiosity is of more value in learning than harsh discipline.
Saint Augustine
 
41.
If you don't have malice in our heart, it doesn't come across harsh.
Will Rogers
 
42.
Rules too soft are seldomly followed; rules too harsh are seldomly executed.
Benjamin Franklin
 
43.
At a certain point, you have to stop being precious with your material and be cruel and harsh and judgmental.
Marshall Curry
 
44.
I can't edit the materials I work with. My remit is to work with nature as a whole. I find nature as a whole disturbing. Nature can be harsh – difficult and brutal, as well as beautiful. You couldn't walk five minutes from here without coming across something that is dead or decaying.
Andy Goldsworthy
 
45.
In my own life, I have noticed when I have been meeting directors, that the same sentence with the same inflection can be said by a man, like: "Get me this." But if the same thing is said by a woman, it's seen as harsh and unacceptable. That always fascinates me.
Meryl Streep
 
47.
All observations of life are harsh, because life is. I lament that fact, but I cannot change it.
Margaret Atwood
 
48.
If there is a God, then he was particularly harsh to me
Taylor Caldwell
 
49.
People are very harsh critics of animated humans.
Henry Selick
 
50.
We're not allowed to carry out harsh interrogations anymore, but we're allowed to fly over somebody's village, without due process, and kill them all?
Howard Gordon